Many in Russia say they are fed up with corruption, stagnant wages and rising prices. Another man, in a vest and gray cap, waited outside. I was interviewing Violetta Grudina, an activist in the Russian Arctic city of Murmansk who is allied with the imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny. “We are all in a trap — trapped by one tyrant,” Ms. Grudina said. “This stupor that comes from giving everything you possibly can, but nothing changes — it is hard.”

Source: New York Times September 16, 2021 19:20 UTC