‘Intoxicating Victory’: How Bashkir Activists Led a Historic Protest Movement at Kushtau

‘Intoxicating Victory’: How Bashkir Activists Led a Historic Protest Movement at Kushtau

This August marks five years since protests in defense of the Kushtau mountain in the republic of Bashkortostan, one of the few successful grassroots protests in Russia’s modern history.  The Moscow Times is marking the anniversary with a two-part series exploring the political context that set the stage for the protests and how they unfolded.  This is the second and final part of the series.