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Earlier this year, opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s return to Russia provoked a political crisis and mass unsanctioned rallies. It seemed that Russia’s protest movement had reached a new level: a large number of new protesters, mass participation in cities and towns across the country, and, finally, new slogans, themes and emotions – all this pointed to a new development in the country’s democratic movement.
But the latest unsanctioned protests, held in Russian cities on 21 April, seemed to blur the novelty and scale of the new protest wave. This protest took on a new, angrier mood – anger against Russian law enforcement responsible for violently dispersing protesters and the elite’s luxury lifestyle mixed into a blend of class hatred. For many, it felt if the protest’s new ideas and emotions, which a few months ago had appeared a guarantee of the movement’s further development, had disappeared somewhere. Many, it seems, experienced a f
People lay flowers in central Moscow on February 27, 2021 at the site where late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was fatally shot on a bridge near the Kremlin. – Hundreds of Russians and diplomats of Western countries marked in Moscow on on February 27, 2021, the sixth anniversary of the assassination of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov was one of President Vladimir Putin’s loudest critics until he was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)Several thousand Russians along with Western diplomats gathered in Moscow on Saturday to mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
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The sixth anniversary of his death comes after Putin s current most prominent critic Alexei Navalny was sent to a penal colony this week to serve a nearly three-year term he denounces as politically motivated
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday the United States was deeply troubled by Russia s growing intolerance of free speech, on the sixth anniversary of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov s murder.
Nemtsov, a vocal opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge near the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. We remain deeply troubled by the Russian government’s growing intolerance of all forms of independent expression, Blinken said in a statement.
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