Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was looking ahead to a planned opposition rally Sunday that he anticipated would be an important step in a long struggle, though in an interview with RFE/RL’s Russian Service earlier this month, he portrayed the demonstration as just a first step in a long struggle.
“If you think that [authorities] would run away on March 1 in fright, they will run away if we get a million” people, he said in the February 3 interview. “But in order to get a million, we need to first have a successful march on March 1.”
But Sunday’s event is …read more
Source: Voice of America
