Paul Roderick Gregory: Has Putin met his match in Russia’s truck drivers?
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference, on Nov. 30, 2015, during of the COP21 United Nations conference on climate change in Le Bourget on the outskirts of the French capital Paris.
Russia's long-haul truck drivers have disrupted the country's federal highways for more than two weeks to protest a new road tax (platon in Russian) collected (with a 20 percent commission) by the Putin-associated Rotenberg oligarchs.
