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Home | ALL NEWS | WORLD | The Global Importance of Russia’s Weekend Protesters

The Global Importance of Russia’s Weekend Protesters

March 31, 2017 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny posted a report detailing the corruption of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. – For all the hyperbole in Washington about Russian hacking, Russian disinformation, Russian influence, and Russian espionage, the really remarkable events in Russia over the weekend appear barely to have registered. One hundred years after the assassination of the last Czar, and two-and-a-half decades after the fall of the…

Going into Sunday, no one really knew how many people would show up for the “anti-corruption” rallies across Russia. But show up they did. Independent estimates say some 60,000 Russians defied strict government, anti-assembly laws in more than 90 cities across Russia — the largest turnout against the Kremlin since mass street protests in 2011. Then…

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Alexei Navalny, Democracy Protests, Europe, Russia, Worldwide Corruption

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