If You Protest Outdoors When It's 55 Below, It Must Be Really Important

Anti-Putin protests in the frigid city of Yakutsk, Siberia,
Russia as temperatures hovered in the minus 50s. 

Many thousands of people across Russia demonstrated Saturday against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the behest of Vladimir Putin's henchmen. 

Navalny was poisoned last year by Russian operatives.  He returned to Moscow recently, and was immediately jailed by the Kremlin.

There appears to be growing revulsion in Russia against Putin, but of course it's such an oppressive regime that it's hard to fight against him.

A measure of how intense at least some people in Russia detest Putin and support Navalny came in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. 

The temperature there was in the mid minus 50s, and the air was thick was freezing fog, typical of towns and cities in the high Arctic amid such extreme cold. 

It looks like it was too cold for violent clashes, the kind they happened in other parts of Russia. But people  had to be really passionate in their anti-Putin positions to go out in such weather. 

Following is a brief video of the Yakutsk protest. Looks brutal: