Russian Protesters Released From Custody Vow To Fight On By Marina KORENEVA
02/10/21 AT 4:24 PM
The time in prison has done little to quench Ruslan Krasnikov s thirst for change at the helm of Russian government and to fight for it through street protests. The protests will continue. People have suffered injustice, he said Wednesday outside a detention centre where he had just spent 10 days in Russia s second-largest city Saint Petersburg. The discontent with the authorities will only keep growing, the still pimple-faced 22-year-old added. Ruslan Krasnikov: The protests will continue Photo: AFP / Olga MALTSEVA
Krasnikov was one of nearly 11,500 Russians detained across the country over a two-week span from late January through early February during protests in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and against President Vladimir Putin.