After the party comes the hangover: for many Russians, this is a familiar concept. And so it is for Moscow, which has for the last five months been the scene of massive anti-Putin demonstrations, marches, and Occupy-style opposition camps. It has been the biggest display of public anger since the fall of the Soviet Union. But after all the baton-wielding police and the repeated arrests of hundreds of activists, an awful calm has now settled on the capital, and with it, a bitter realization: there was no Russian Spring. Vladimir Putin is back in the Kremlin, and he’s back to stay.
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