Amnesty International: 2023 was Russia’s first year without mass protests
A protest in Moscow, September 2021. Photo: Sergey Korneev, CC BY-SA 4.0 A protest calling for fair elections in Moscow, September 2021. Photo: Sergey Korneev, CC BY-SA 4.0 Amnesty International researcher Oleg Kozlovsky has shown that 2023 was the first year there were no mass protests in Russia in his annual report presentation. Koslovsky said that 2023 was the first year mass protests in Russia had “petered out”, as people mostly protested alone.