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Back in 2014, one of Russia’s senior politicians (later elected chairman of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament) quipped: “There is no Russia today if there is no Putin.” Future developments might prove his claim correct, in a peculiar…

The BBC reports from the city of Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East: Thousands took to the streets of Khabarovsk in what locals are calling the biggest protest they’ve seen in decades. They’re angry at the arrest of Sergei Furgal…