Name: What It's Like To Be a Teenager in Putin's Russia | NYT Opinion
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T03:22:23.000Z
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in 80 cities protesting government corruption.

Hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned

I’m 17 years old, and I’m from Moscow.

When I saw people my age going outside and not being afraid,

it made me want to find out how young people like me

and the people I’ve interviewed have been alive.

to share this with the world because it’s rare

She was even a member of Putin’s youth group.

I was just really excited to talk to a young person who

I discovered that Kirill's feelings were much more

thought that things are going to change, at least not soon.

One of the problems is our parents’ generation,

who grew up during the last years of Soviet Union,

better than what they have experienced before.

made me wonder if young people don’t really have

do they dream of leaving and making a life somewhere else?

dreams of traveling the world and experiencing new things.

And, unlike our parents, who lived through the Soviet

We want the same opportunities as young people

won't be easy to make me and other people

my age to vote for Putin’s system again.

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What It's Like To Be a Teenager in Putin's Russia | NYT Opinion

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