The Kremlin pushes pension reform, but the Russian public pushes back

It is potentially the biggest political challenge for the Kremlin since 2005. It is probably the memory of those protests that has kept Russia from considering raising its pension ages for more than a dozen years. A law working its way through the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, would significantly raise the pension age for retiring Russians as early as next Jan. 1.

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