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Navalny’s popularity spreading in Russia amid massive protests over his arrest

•Jan 24, 2021

PBS NewsHour

Tens of thousands of people in over a dozen Russian cities defied heavy police presence Saturday to protest the arrest of Alexei Navalny, a leading political opposition figure to Putin. Navalny’s poisoning, recovery, return to Russia, and his organization’s viral videos are turning him into a “household name” in Russia, according to PBS NewsHour’s Special Correspondent Ryan Chilcote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ckUJ6AUHU

In consideration of where these protests may lead to in any short term it may help, to put the
protests in more context, to look at the last pseudo-referendum Putin engineered. See again:

Putin’s moves leave Russian opposition with few options
[...]
Vladimir Putin secures constitutional changes allowing him to rule until 2036 – what this means for Russia
[...]
The leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, called the official results “fake
and a huge lie”. Street protests on the final day of voting were few and small.
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