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On a recent cold March afternoon, a handful of people gathered on a square in downtown Ulyanovsk, a midsized Russian city on the Volga River, to demand the return of direct elections for the city’s mayorship.  Despite a large police presence, the gathering which featured speeches from local activists and politicians went ahead without a single arrest.   “Forty participants might seem like very little,” Konstantin Tolkachev, a local lawyer who organized the protest, told The Moscow Times. “But given all the restrictions… and that it happened in Russia in 2023… I think the first rally went well.” Notwithstanding wartime censorship and a crackdown on dissent since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities apparently feel secure enough to allow modest expressions of opposition and street protests still regularly take place across the country.

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