Originally posted by Paddy
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Russian protesters have been estimated at 20,000 out of a population of 142,000,000
Majority of Russian population does not live in Moscow and authorities did their best to minimise number of people going - all previous demos were very harshly handled by police, it's common to get arrested for 15 days (effetive imprisonment as it was in Soviet era) on false pretenses.
Risk of losing a job for being involved in those demos is very high, getting criminal record to and generally risk to health is more than zero - it's very easy to go on a demo in this country as it carries no real risk.
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