Monstrations 2018: Telegram, politics and LGBT
The relatively new Russian tradition of holding youth marches on May 1 under absurd slogans – “Monstrations” – is slowly degenerating into an opposition event. If last year in Novosibirsk (it was there that the monstration was invented in 2004), a stupid parade became an alternative to Navalny’s rally, then yesterday the monstration resembled a protest action. The same trend was observed in most of the dozen...