MOSCOW: When Ivan Rudnev saw thousands of people join an opposition protest in his gritty hometown of Perm despite temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius last weekend, he realized something had changed.

“We were blown away when we saw this crowd,” the 27-year-old activist told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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