Members of the opposition will stage a protest march called March of Freedom Dec. 15 to coincide with the anniversary of 2011's mass protests, RIA Novosti reported Nov. 24.
Despite ongoing demographic, economic and geopolitical problems, Russia is using every tool at its disposal to reassert itself in the former
Soviet Union. Rather than taking back its former position as the patron state of many Central Asian, Caucasus and Eastern European countries, the Kremlin is attempting to exert softer control over its former republics.
