In a note from jail, opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Russians to overcome their fear and ’free’ the country from a ’bunch of thieves.’ Navalny has called his imprisonment as ’Putin’s personal revenge’ for surviving and exposing the assassination plot. Protests against Navalny’s arrest and jailing have spread across Russia, with over 10000 arrests having been made.
Russia knows what happens when you don't stop revolutionary parties early. The Kremlin will not allow themselves to become Romanovs.