The inscription on the snow "NO TO WAR", Petrozavodsk, 5 March. On the same day, a van with markings that read "People, wake up!", "This is war", "Putin is scum!" in Russian crashed and caught fire in Pushkinskaya Square.
Members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the People's Freedom Party, and Yabloko, spoke out against the invasion. By the end of the day, that number had grown to around 2,710 arrests (at least 5,844 in total since the beginning of the war), including at least 1,269 arrests in Moscow and 1,034 in Saint Petersburg. According to OVD-Info, by early Sunday evening, police had detained at least 900 Russians in 44 cities, bringing the total number of arrests to over 4,000 since the war had begun. Around 1,000 people gathered for a spontaneous anti-war rally near Great Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg. The protests coincided with the seventh anniversary of the murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, and arrests took place at an improvised memorial outside the Kremlin where Nemtsov was shot. Throughout the day at least 469 people were arrested in 34 cities, of which around half in Moscow, bringing the total number of arrests to over 3,000. In Yekaterinburg, hundreds gathered, shouting 'No to war!'. Others gathered in small groups to move more nimbly around the streets. On 26 February, some Russian protestors chose to reduce the chances of arrest by staging single-person protests in Moscow and other city squares. In Saint Petersburg several hundred people gathered in the city center, chanting 'No to war!' OVD-Info reported 437 detentions in 26 Russian cities on that day, including 226 in Moscow and 130 in Saint Petersburg. On the following day, 25 February, further protests had continued in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other cities. Russia's interior ministry justified these arrests with "coronavirus restrictions, including on public events". By the end of the evening of the day of the invasion, according to the OVD-Info monitor, there had been 1,820 arrests in 58 cities, of which 1,002 were carried out in Moscow. Hundreds demonstrated in Yekaterinburg, and there were also demonstrations in Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Perm, including other cities. The largest demonstrations were in Moscow, where 2,000 protesters gathered near Pushkinskaya Square, and Saint Petersburg, where up to 1,000 protesters gathered. That evening, thousands took to the streets in cities across Russia to protest the war. The opposition activist Marina Litvinovich called on Instagram for street protests on the evening of 24 February but was detained by police as she left her house. On the afternoon of the invasion, the Investigative Committee of Russia issued a warning to Russians that they would face legal repercussions for joining unsanctioned protests related to "the tense foreign political situation". Protest against the invasion of Ukraine (Moscow, 24 February 2022) After Putin announced a partial mobilization of Russia's military reserves on 21 September, over 2,000 people were detained in mass street protests in the following days. Other individuals who signed anti-war petitions have faced reprisals.
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The government has also moved to crack down on other forms of opposition to the war, including introducing widespread censorship measures. Human rights organisations and reporters have raised concerns of police brutality during arrests and OVD-Info reported several cases of protestors being tortured under detention. According to OVD-Info, at least 14,906 people were detained from 24 February to 13 March. The protests have been met with widespread repression by the Russian authorities. As well as the demonstrations, a number of petitions and open letters have been penned in opposition to the war, and a number of public figures, both cultural and political, have released statements against the war. Government and intergovernmental reactionsįollowing the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, anti-war demonstrations and protests broke out across Russia.Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present) ( Timeline).Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (factions).Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation (factions).Communist Party of the Russian Federation (factions).Union of Russian Students ( factions).Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Government in Exile.
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