Recently, I have found it very difficult to talk to people even about things as banal as grocery store prices.
One evening at a Pyaterochka supermarket in northeast Moscow, a middle-aged woman brushed off my question about the rising cost of living. “Everything is fine with our prices!”
Few people were willing to even respond to my requests to speak with them. So I had to turn to my own receipts to look at how hard inflation has hit Russia.
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The fact that Yabloko, Russia’s oldest liberal opposition party, is fielding 98 candidates in 42 regions feels like a small miracle for antiwar Russians whom restrictive laws have prevented from openly expressing their views. As wartime repression deepens, the country may not see such candidates on the ballot again.
My report from Moscow, along with @PaulSonne
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