Russians protest pension reform as Putin popularity slides
Several thousand people protested Sunday across Russia against a hugely unpopular government decision to hike the pension age that has led to a record slump in President Vladimir Putin's approval ratings. Rallying in dozens of cities from the far east and Siberia to central and southern Russia, many urged Putin to oust the government, while some called on the Kremlin leader himself to "retire." Both Kremlin-friendly trade unions and political parties and Putin's top critic Alexei Navalny organised the rallies, in...