Russian Activists Find Ways to Protest Despite the Bans
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Russian Activists Find Ways to Protest Despite the Bans
Protesters bring home the horror of Mariupol and Bucha to Russians.
The Moscow Times
Apr 05, 2022 - 02:43 pm
Despite the ban on virtually any form of protest - even standing alone on the street with a blank piece of paper will get you detained - Russians are protesting anyway.
In Moscow a man in a black wool hat with his hands tied behind his back with a strip of sheeting lay in street in the center of the Russian capital. This was part of a street protest called Bucha-Moscow shown on the Kholod journal Telegram channel.
The Feminist Anti-War Resistance group has focused on the destruction and killing of civilians in Mariupol. Their activists throughout Russia have placed graveyard crosses about their cities and towns to commemorate the 5,000 civilians killed in that Ukrainian city.
On the first day of protest, April 3, more than 250 crosses were placed in 25 Russian cities.
In Perm, activists came up with a different way of catching people's attention. They slip new prices onto the shelves below goods in grocery shops. Shoppers notice because the prices are wildly out of order. Above the price, the activists have written texts that explain the meaning of those numbers, which might be the number of people killed in a bombing raid in a Ukrainian city or the true rate of inflation due to the war.
Alexandrovsky Garden
This body by the Kremlin walls is part of the Bucha-Moscow protest.
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Bridge at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Here the body lies on the bridge next to the main Orthodox cathedral in Russia.
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Nikolskaya Street
In this photograph the body lies right off Red Square on a street that is usually the site of gatherings and celebrations.
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Old Arbat
Here the body lies on the main pedestrian street in the capital. Apparently the activists were not apprehended.
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#Мариуполь5000
#Mariupol5000 commemorates the (at least) 5,000 civilians - men, women, children, and the elderly - killed in the city of Mariupol. "In memory of the 5000 peaceful civilians killed in Mariupol."
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#Мариуполь5000
This large cross calls for the war to be ended.
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#Мариуполь5000
Within three days, this protest spread to nearly 50 cities with more than 500 crosses placed in memory of those killed in Mariupol and Bucha.
Fem Antiwar Resistance / twitter
#Мариуполь5000
"Russian soldiers killed 5,000 peaceful civilians in Mariupol. Now they are buried in the courtyards of the houses they lived in. This isn't a 'special operation.' It's war."
