Russian citizen in Moscow protesting against their corrupt government.

Image from preview.redd.it and submitted by Negral
image showing Russian citizen in Moscow protesting against their corrupt government.

jdlr64 on July 27th, 2019 at 21:25 UTC »

I knew they existed.

Nkdly on July 27th, 2019 at 21:49 UTC »

I don't think she's part of the 99% that voted putin last time.

TheDustOfMen on July 27th, 2019 at 22:08 UTC »

For the people wondering what's going on:

Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power.

The detentions came around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election. 

Authorities say they were barred because they failed to collect sufficient genuine signatures in their support. The opposition has no seats in parliament and is starved of air time on state TV where many Russians still get their news.

An authorised protest in Moscow last weekend, also calling for the disbarred candidates to be registered, was attended by more than 20,000 people, according to the White Counter monitoring group.