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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2022 1:43:28 GMT
Thousands of people have been arrested at protests across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s interior ministry said more than 3,500 people had been arrested: 1,700 in Moscow, 750 in St Petersburg and 1,061 in other cities. The ministry said 5,200 people had taken part in the protests. The OVD-Info protest monitoring group said it had documented the arrest of at least 4,366 people in 56 cities. The last Russian protests with a similar number of arrests were in January 2021, when thousands demanded the release of opposition leader Alexey Navalny after he was arrested on returning from Germany where he had been recovering from nerve agent poisoning. Some Russian state-controlled media carried short reports about Sunday’s protests but they did not feature prominently in news bulletins. Russia’s RIA news agency said the Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, adjoining the Kremlin, had been “liberated” by police, who had arrested some participants of an unsanctioned protest against the military operation in Ukraine. According to Russian human rights group OVD-Info - which was set up in 2011 - more than 2,500 people were detained across Russia on Sunday. It publishes the names and locations of those arrested, as well as total figures. "Each police department may have more detainees than published lists," it says. "We publish only the names of those people about whom we know for certain and whose names we can publish."
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2022 17:58:41 GMT
Anti-war protests break out across Russia 783,800 views • Feb 25, 2022 • NBC's Matt Bodner joins Shep Smith to report from Moscow on what he's hearing about Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine inside Russia.
One monitoring group said more than 4,000 people had been arrested in dozens of cities across the country.
But none of that could stop many ordinary Russians from simply 'going for a walk'.
We have blurred the faces of the interviewees in this report for their own safety.
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2022 19:07:58 GMT
Fears mount over ‘missing’ Russian anti-war TV protester The United Nations and human rights organisations have warned Russia against punishing a Russian journalist who appeared on state TV brandishing an anti-war sign. Russian TV protester on trial, faces 10 days in prison Ovsyannikova, the Russian state television employee who brandished a slogan protesting the invasion of Ukraine on live TV, is facing 10 days in jail for the demonstration. She also risked criminal charges with a penalty of up to 15 years in jail under new laws introduced after President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24. At Moscow’s Ostankinsky district court, where she was facing detention for publishing a video explaining her reasons for interrupting the news broadcast, she pleaded not guilty. “I’m still convinced that Russia is committing a crime,” Ovsyannikova, whose father is Ukrainian, said in the video address. “I’m ashamed that I allowed lies to be spoken from the TV screen. I’m ashamed I allowed Russian people to be zombified.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2022 20:17:47 GMT
Russian journalist interrupts live TV state media broadcast with 'no war' protest | ITV News 99,597 views Mar 15, 2022 A Russian state media employee interrupted a news broadcast live on air to protest against the invasion of Ukraine.
Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova ran on to the set of the network's live nightly news show on Monday evening, shouting: “Stop the war. No to war."
The journalist, who has a Ukrainian father and Russian mother, held a sign saying: “Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
The poster was signed in English: “Russians against the war”.
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2022 6:11:34 GMT
Kremlin crackdown leads some Russians to flee their homeland I WNT 189,352 views Mar 18, 2022 ABC News' Byron Pitts reports on the information crackdown in Russia and how many Russians at odds with the regime are choosing to leave their country.
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