JRL NEWSWATCH: “Navalny Protests Threaten to Snowball as Grievances Grow in Russia” – Wall Street Journal/ Thomas Grove and Georgi Kantchev
“Weekend rallies across Russia were driven by anger over falling living standards and worsening repression.”
“Protests in Russia over the jailing of … Navalny … threaten[] to escalate into a larger movement against the Kremlin, driven by frustration over falling living standards and shrinking political freedoms as … Putin cements his long-term hold …. Discontent is now shifting to anger after a court ordered … Navalny to be held in pretrial custody [following his return to Russia after recovering from a poison attack] …, [further] propelled by chronic corruption, the pain from the collapse of oil prices last year and Covid-19 lockdown measures. …”