January was a month of widespread dissatisfaction and protest in Russia, but not for the reasons you’d expect. Demonstrations erupted in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk when a 26-year-old was killed by a Tajik migrant. In Bashkortostan, police dispersed thousands of residents protesting against the sentencing of a Bashkir activist who was charged with […]
Russia Walks a Demographic Tightrope
Protests over migrant labor show the precarity of Moscow’s situation.
