Russians Protest Retirement-Age Hike
- By Current Time
Thousands of Russians have protested in several cities against the government's plan to raise the retirement age. There was a strong presence of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's supporters and the Russian Communist Party at a number of the July 1 protests. Current Time TV filmed rallies in Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Kazan, Saratov, and Krasnodar.