With demonstrations that won’t stop, and arrests reaching 1,000 in a single day, Moscow is buzzing about a surge of political activism. Having been disappointed so often in the past, of course, Russian democrats know not to get their hopes up: President Vladimir Putin remains firmly in charge.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves a plenary session of the International Arctic Forum in Saint Petersburg on April 9, 2019.
