Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who organized massive street protests in Moscow against Vladimir Putin four years ago, had a much harder time drawing a big crowd in Siberia’s largest city last month.
Maybe it was the scorching heat of the short Siberian summer that kept the size of the weekend rally to about 1,000 people.
Maybe it was the disillusionment and apathy that many Russians are feeling about their political system these days.
Or maybe it’s that Navalny’s anti-corruption message is being drowned out by a Kremlin media campaign increasingly focused on the separatist war in Ukraine and the standoff with the …read more
Source: Voice of America
