Navalny's shares in Russia are increasingly small
The “Voter Strike” rallies, which gathered in many Russian cities at the call of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, turned out to be small in number.
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In most cities, between 150 and 300 people attended the protests. The exceptions were the million-plus cities Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. Up to a thousand participants gathered there. Opposition mayor Evgeny Roizman came to support Navalny’s rally in the capital of the Urals
Rally in Izhevsk
The protests were not helped by the famous Siberian frosts that have now settled in the eastern regions of Russia. Therefore, 35 people came out in Yakutsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 20 in Magadan, 16 in Blagoveshchensk, and one in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Rally in Yakutsk
Rally in Kazan
The actions were coordinated in almost all regions of the Russian Federation. The authorities did not sanction protest events in Vladivostok, Kaliningrad, Ufa, Voronezh, Volgograd, Murmansk, Kemerovo, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. The police detained about 180 people throughout the country.
Rally in Chelyabinsk
Novosibirsk is the only Siberian city that brought together a thousand participants
Creative slogan in Yekaterinburg
Liberal political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin believes that the organizers of the protests should be disappointed.
“There is no such mass participation. Street activity is decreasing in number, its composition is becoming much younger. The authorities, on the one hand, throw them out of the legal field, and on the other hand, do not cross the red line. The police act impeccably,” Oreshkin said on the Dozhd TV channel.
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