The latest wave of resistance is in many ways unprecedented. Navalny’s
direct, populist style, his focus on elite corruption and his embrace of
social demands (such as raising the minimum wage) have increasingly
brought inhabitants of the Russian ‘heartland’ into the opposition
orbit. In that respect, the protests of late January were something of a
breakthrough. According to the sociologist Alexandra Arkhipova, who
organized a quick survey of the protesters, 39% of 252 people surveyed
in Moscow and 47% of 454 people surveyed in St Petersburg on 23 January
responded that it was their first protest. In the regions, the number of
new participants was likely even higher. Vladimir Zvonovskiy, another
researcher who conducted 20 interviews with protesters in Samara,
claimed that only a few of his respondents had ever attended such a
gathering. Turnout at demonstrations reached its highest ever levels in
many smaller cities.
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