On September 9, 2018, protests against raising the retirement age took place across Russia. The demonstrations had been called by Alexei Navalny to coincide with the country’s regional election day and formed part of his broader campaign against pension reform.
Navalny himself had been arrested before the protests took place. Despite pressure from the authorities, mass detentions, and the preventive arrests of organizers in many regions, people still took to the streets. The pension reform became one of the most contentious and widely felt political issues of the year.
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