On a warm Wednesday night, Maria Baronova was taking questions from a handful of voters on a playground near Moscow’s Victory movie theatre. She spoke quietly and quickly, ignoring a half dozen obviously drunk men who periodically catcalled the parliamentary candidate or her posse of mostly young female volunteers.
“Who do you see as an alternative to Putin?” a middle-aged woman asked her.
“The Russian people … people like you and me,” Baronova said.
“But people like us are few, there are more like them,” the woman shot back, gesturing toward the drunk men.
“If we band together we can change something!”
“It’s too long …read more
Source: Time
