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Resource September 14, 2012

Joshua Yaffa on the Reawakening of Russian Protest Politics

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Joshua Yaffa. Photo by David Trilling.

Pulitzer Center grantee Joshua Yaffa traveled to Russia to look at how a burgeoning protest movement against the rule of Vladimir Putin took hold in Moscow and then spread quickly to other major urban centers. Is this the beginning of a new political consciousness among Russia's middle class, or yet another false start that will be brushed aside by Putin and Russia's powerful oligarchs?

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