Sweeping arrests stifled antiwar protests, turning them from a daily event in large cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg into rare occurrences barely attracting any attention.
The first publicly known criminal cases over “fakes” targeted public figures like Veronika Belotserkovskaya, a Russian-language cookbook author and popular blogger living abroad, and Alexander Nevzorov, a TV journalist, film director and former lawmaker. St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skolichenko also faces up to 10 years in prison on the same charge: She replaced price tags in a grocery store with antiwar flyers. On Wednesday, a court ordered Skolichenko to pretrial detention for 1 1/2 months.
Marat Grachev, director of a shop that repairs Apple products in Moscow, similarly got in trouble when he displayed a link to an online petition titled, “No to war” on a screen in the shop. Many customers expressed support when they saw it, but one elderly man demanded it be taken down, threatening to report Grachev to the authorities.
“The war brought about so many unbearable challenges, grief and tears, that it’s impossible to forget. There is no forgiveness and justification for those who once again are harbouring aggressive plans,” Putin had said, according to the Kremlin website.
A country just brimming over with ‘freedom’
Police do the Same in Canada
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So did Canada, what's you point?
Looks just like what the Trudeau regime does to peaceful protesters here in Canada.
And what is your problem? It's their country. Stop meddling in other countries' affairs. Canada trained Nazi in UKR and you talk about this?
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Never thought to see Israeli police/defence/special forces side with Russians! UN POTUS EUCouncil UKParliament nytimes washingtonpost cnnbrk WhiteHouse
You can just imagine what life would be like in Russia,Ukraine,China, etc...yet we have the Freedumb Convoy here protesting WHAT exactly?...true spoiled losers of our society.