From Moscow all the way to Vladivostok in Russia’s far East, across 11 time zones, Russians came out to the streets to protest the arrest of opposition politician, Alexei Navalny. Navalny is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s harshest critic. The protesters believe that Navalny’s arrest was political and that the charges against him have been fabricated by the Kremlin. Host Marco Werman digs into the story with Moscow-based political scientist, Ekaterina Shulmann.
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