The long-haul truckers’ strike, the largest and most consequential labor action in Russia since the end of the USSR, is a development few Russians and even fewer people abroad know about because the Kremlin has given an order to the central and regional media outlets to understate the size of the action and the motives behind it.
Kremlin Tells Media Not to Report Truckers’ Strike – But It is Still Happening and Spreading
April 11, 2017