Plan to Relocate 1.6 Million Muscovites Turns Middle-Class Russians Into Protesters

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 Putin’s definition, “a skilled worker” whose income allows her “a certain freedom” to choose “how to spend” her money and “where to work.”

"Plan to Relocate 1.6 Million Muscovites Turns Middle-Class Russians Into Protesters" is from the June 10, 2017 Europe section of The Washington Post. It was written by David Filipov and narrated by Sam Scholl.