Ivan Voronin is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
In 2019, Anastasia Bryukhanova was disqualified from running for the Moscow City Duma because officials used dubious pretexts to invalidate many of the signatures she submitted. This time, she has taken extraordinary measures to get past this obstacle to run for the national legislature.
The authorities have conducted searches at the homes of 15 activists of a protest movement against Moscow's garbage-disposal plans in the Kolomna area outside Moscow. Public anger is reaching a boiling point as the government pushes ahead to build a controversial waste-incineration plant.
