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Vladimir Putin with the children attending the Kremlin New Year Party in 2017. Photo: The Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. At the end of January 2021, massive protests across Russia demanded the release of Alexei Navalny amid growing socio-economic dissatisfaction, flourishing corruption and blatant hypocrisy of the authorities. According to OVD-Info, Russia’s independent human rights project combating political persecution, at least 4,000 people in 125 cities and 5,754 people in 87 cities were detained on January 23rd and January 31st respectively. On February 2nd, after the announcement of the court verdict against Navalny, his supporters called for political actions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, resulting in at least 1,144 detainees as of February 3rd. In Moscow alone the protests were the largest in seven years, a fact Russian state-owned television could hardly ignore. On January 24th, Russia’s chief propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov alleged that most prot

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