Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Navalny, 40, a charismatic opposition figure, has long been caught up in multiple court cases that he calls politically motivated. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Putin, as the “good czar,” enjoys a status that the rest of the government falls short of. Mr. Navalny, however, in calling for people to come out to protest high-level corruption, rather than the president, appears to have tapped into a popular sentiment. The immediate inspiration for Sunday’s protest was a nearly 50-minute video compiled by Mr. Navalny and his colleagues and released on March 2. Why so?”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyHe predicted, accurately, that none of the events would appear on Channel One, a main government mouthpiece.

Source: New York Times March 27, 2017 16:07 UTC