Why did so many Russians protest today? Watch Navalny's video, if you haven't done it already. 70+ million views so for With English subtitles.
it's long. but the details are astonishing.
A coffee table for the price of a Moscow apartment; a toilet brush and paper holder for the price of an average Russian's annual pension; the same double-headed eagle on the entrance to his palace as on the Hermitage; and it goes on.
But the palace is only the beginning. It's the web of shell companies, the childhood friends - we knew all of it, but this puts the jigsaw pieces together in new ways
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