Every Saturday morning, the whole country jumps on social media to check: how’s Khabarovsk doing? Still holding out, still protesting? ⠀ It’s just that people are hoping for different things. Ninety-eight percent of citizens hope that Khabarovsk residents have taken to the streets again. Two percent—Putin supporters, United Russia members, and their hangers-on—are really counting on people having left the streets. ⠀ Today, the 98% are celebrating again, and the 2% are disappointed again. ⠀ And one person—a 67-year-old man in silk pajamas, living in Novo-Ogaryovo (the state residence outside Moscow associated with Vladimir Putin)—is so upset he can’t even eat his morning cottage cheese with honey. ⠀ And besides that, we finally got the answer to the question that, of course, had been on everyone’s mind: what will the people of Khabarovsk do when the weather turns bad? ⠀ Now we know: they’ll stage a march of thousands of umbrellas and chant: WE WALK THROUGH PUDDLES, WE DON’T NEED PUTIN.
