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February 3, 2012

Russian Protests Echo U.S. Civil Rights Movement

Leon Aron, Christian Science Monitor

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Like last year's Arab Spring, this winter's mass protests in Russia exhibit several hallmarks of people-powered democratic revolts. But to see the rallies over rigged legislative elections in December as primarily a political wave is to miss a more fundamental leaven at work in Russian society: a moral awakening akin to the American civil rights movement.

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