Plan to relocate 1.6m Muscovites turns middle-class into protesters
With Putin loyalists in control of everything, opponents feel powerless to stop the demolition of their homes
Moscow
WHEN he ran for president in 2012, Vladimir Putin wrote that Russia's "middle class has to grow". Kari Guggenberger is exactly the kind of person he had in mind. An IT manager, she fits Mr Putin's definition, "a skilled worker" whose income allows her "a certain freedom" to choose "how to spend" her money and "where to work". And, also, where to live.
Ms Guggenberger accepted the bargain that …
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