Economy is fucked, politics is dead, corruption. Basically before Putin and government could tell that if you want some changes, you have to vote opposition in the government and that protests are ebil US destabilisation. So for the last years the opposition tried to register their party and participate in elections on every level and their support was slowly growing. Because of that Kremlin faggots were seething and instead of giving a couple of opposition candidates an access to participation in any elections, they went full retard and rigged the election process in Moscow to a truly laughable scale, which became obvious to even non-liberals. Basically, that means that the game was honked from the start and there is no way to legally improve the situation. So people went to protest peacefully. They've encountered ridiculous police brutality when OMOH breaks people's legs just because and beats women. That was a wake up call for normies, who are also furious because of the government incompetence in every shphere of life (Siberian forests on fire, explosions, floods in just one summer - Putin's government fucked up everywhere in handling the aftermath). So now the protests are against the government and Putin in general. No one knows if it will die off or lead to a revolution. 
I know what /pol/ wants to know and yes, opposition are kikes, but so is Putin and Kremlin faggots. It's a battle between piss and shit. But we need any changes desperately if we don't want to end up being the North North Korea.