MOSCOW – Some 200 protesters gathered outside the Russian State Duma on July 19 to challenge proposed legislation to increase the country’s retirement age, as lawmakers prepared to vote for the bill in its first reading.
Among the protesters were the leader of the Communists of Russia party, Maksim Suraikin; Yabloko’s leading member, Sergei Mitrokhin; and the coordinator of the Levy Front (Left Front) movement, Sergei Udaltsov.
