Moscow protest over Putin's political shake-up fails to gain traction
2020-01-20 09:00:08 source：Reuters
January 20, 2020
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Over 1,000 people marched through Moscow on Sunday in an event a Kremlin critic tried to turn into a protest against a constitutional shake-up by President Vladimir Putin, but many demonstrators chose to voice dissent about other issues instead.
Yulia Galyamina, a Moscow city councillor, had urged people to take to the streets to speak out against Putin’s proposed political changes by joining an authorized rally already due to be held to mark the murder of a journalist, Anastasia Baburova, and a lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, 11 years ago.
But many protesters did not heed her call and Sunday’s event saw a smaller turnout than many previous opposition protests last summer, which at their peak drew around 60,000 people.
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