Vladimir Putin has been hit by a fresh result as furious Russian wives take to the streets in part of a new wave of protests. Partners of Russian wives demonstrated against Putin as part of widely celebrated International Women’s Day events. Mothers were expected to spearhead initial protests following Putin’s invasion of the ex-Soviet state in February 2022. However, following mass crackdowns on oppositions, mothers were unable to mobilise similarly to how they had during Russia’s war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s. The wives of Russian soldiers have seemed to face-down the Kremlin’s desperate …