With real wages falling by around 9% in Russia in the first part of the year, local protests are starting to bubble up around the country according to the FT:
According to the Institute of Collective Action, a non-governmental group of sociologists which records activism across the country, there has been a clear uptick in unrest over the past few months. They are often small-scale protests over personnel cuts in hospitals, which threaten to undermine the already precarious state of the healthcare system in many regions. […]
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Petrozavodsk, a city near the border with Finland, on Thursday, …read more
Source: The American Interest
