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And that is a contest that Putin is no longer confident he can win.
If Russians so much as honk their car horns in solidarity with the protesters, they risk personal repercussions. It is war. Navalny has long been a prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin.
But his arrest —immediately upon returning to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent months recovering from a presumably Kremlin-ordered poisoning — has turned him as well as his comrades-in-arms, many of whom have also been arrested into something of a moral authority as well.
Russians who a few weeks ago never imagined that they would risk arrest over some moral imperative are now taking to the streets.
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