Protestors rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Bloomberg) -- Lyudmila Shtein, a 24-year-old Muscovite and municipal deputy, is under house arrest until May and risks a two-year jail term for encouraging people to join a protest last month. She’s among more than 11,000 people rounded up in the past two weeks after the biggest show of defiance toward President Vladimir Putin in years.
As social media flooded with accounts of police brutality including beatings, a Kremlin crackdown has succeeded for now in halting the unrest triggered by the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. No more demonstrations are planned until the spring, but after more than two decades in power, Putin hasn’t extinguished the threat to his rule.
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WNU Editor: The Russian government has shown its teeth .... Russian protesters detained at pro-Navalny rallies say police threatened and intimidated them: 'The regime has shown its teeth' (CNN). After two weekends of protests, there are no protests planned until spring time. From the Kremlin's point of view. They have won (for now).
