Students at a prestigious Moscow university angrily disrupted a lecture by Nikolai Starikov, the leader of a pro-Kremlin group that has backed separatist militants in eastern Ukraine.
Before the recent dip in oil prices, Russia was collecting tens of billions of dollars in energy revenues. But very little of that was invested in improving the welfare of the less fortunate. Fires at rundown retirement homes and hospitals have claimed thousands of lives throughout the country, most recently in the Komi Republic.
