“It’s just like Belarus!” exclaimed a girl in glasses as she came out of the metro station and saw the crowd. A huge buzzing stream of people was emerging from Chekhovskaya station – and from the opposite side of the street – and gathering on Pushkin Square in central Moscow. The roar of the masses mingled with car horns in a deafening cacophony.
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An elderly woman attends a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on Jan. 23, 2021.
