InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Not just Navalny: Economic pain also behind Russian protests By financialnews_rlv83x - February 1, 2021 0 155 The trigger for some of the biggest protests to sweep Russia in years was the arrest of opposition politician and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was detained on his return to the country last month after surviving poisoning by a nerve agent.