six hours or strolling around in temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius wearing just a t-shirt and jeans. Getting Upset
In January, however, as Navalny was preparing to return from Germany where he d spent weeks recuperating from an August nerve-agent poisoning that he says was carried out by Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives at the behest of Putin and the government was threatening to arrest him if he appeared in Russia, Yelshin began including political content on his channel, including
surveying other youths about whether they supported Navalny or Putin.
On January 23, he published a YouTube livestream from the Navalny demonstration in Vologda.
Russian Students Sue After University Expels Them For Joining Protests
February 11, 2021 17:46 GMT
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It was with pain in my heart, rector Konstantin Markelov said on January 29, that he announced the expulsion of three Astrakhan State University students for attending opposition protests.
But the law is the law, he said in an
open letter posted to social media. Think a hundred times when they urge you to join unsanctioned demonstrations.
The university in southern Russia prompted an uproar with its decision, a case still rare in Russia despite an increasingly harsh crackdown on dissent following nationwide rallies in support of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny on January 23.