Not Our Tsar

Not Our Tsar

- Anustup Roy Barman

It’s been 18 years that Vladimir Putin has been ruling Russia. He has recently sworn in for his fourth Kremlin term amidst nationwide protest rallies that resulted in the arrests of at least 1,200 anti-Putin demonstrators. The internal situation in Russia is unstable but Kremlin is bent on repressing the opposition.

Russia’s Interior Ministry said about half of the 1,200 arrests happened in Moscow but the monitoring group oVD-Info put the number at more than 1,600 across 20 cities. Anti-Putin leader Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow’s Pushkin Square on May 5, but he later tweeted that he had been released and will face charges of organising an unauthorised meeting and for resisting the police. Navalny was barred from challenging Putin in the recent Presidential elections. He had called out to Russians to stage a day of rallies across the country on May 5, under the slogan “Not our Tsar”.

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