Russian invasion of Ukraine/Russians against the war: Difference between revisions
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* [https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1619988303348129797 #Russia: Family arrested at a #Krasnodar restaurant “Na Drovoi” for having an anti-war conversation. Person overheard Olesya & Alexei Ovchinnikov’s table conversation and called the police. Police arrested them at the restaurant and took away their 9-year-old child.] | * [https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1619988303348129797 #Russia: Family arrested at a #Krasnodar restaurant “Na Drovoi” for having an anti-war conversation. Person overheard Olesya & Alexei Ovchinnikov’s table conversation and called the police. Police arrested them at the restaurant and took away their 9-year-old child.] | ||
* Maksim Lypkan: [https://twitter.com/RG_Horvath/status/1630910183219290117 Those who mock Russians’ passivity under Putin’s dictatorship might try to imagine themselves in the place of 18-year old antiwar activist Maksim Lypkan.] | * Maksim Lypkan: [https://twitter.com/RG_Horvath/status/1630910183219290117 Those who mock Russians’ passivity under Putin’s dictatorship might try to imagine themselves in the place of 18-year old antiwar activist Maksim Lypkan.] | ||
Revision as of 14:27, 28 March 2023
“ Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin started a war with Ukraine. Pain, anger and shame are three words that reflect our attitude to what is happening. This invasion will bring grief to the families of thousands of people in Ukraine and Russia. This is a large-scale war in which other states will also be involved. Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world has never been so close to a global catastrophe.
We, as independent Russian journalists, declare that we are against the massacre initiated by the Russian leadership.
We promise that we will be honest about what is happening while we have this opportunity. We wish resilience and strength to the people of Ukraine who are resisting aggression, and to all in Russia who are now trying to resist this militaristic madness.
We also appeal to those who are trying to rationalise the motivations for the war, justifying its start by the need to protect themselves from NATO and “Ukrainian Nazism”. War is no longer just an argument on television and in kitchens. It has been made flesh. There are tanks in Kharkiv. And in a real war, people always die. We hope that death will not come to your house. But, of this, there can be no certainty.
No to war.
- — No to War “Novaya leads a coalition of 25 independent media outlets, “Syndicate 100”. Novaya unequivocally condemns President Putin’s unprovoked and horrific war against Ukraine. We penned a joint statement calling for an end to this barbaric war”
russians protesting against the russian invasion of Ukraine
- 92-year-old Russian woman says that the country is brainwashed into hating the world and that this is why the Bucha Massacre happened. [1]
protests abroad
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, “Stop saying that the war in Ukraine is being waged by Russia and the Russian people. It’s a war of Putin and his regime. The narrative that Russia as a whole is at war benefits Putin and is not true.” (thread) (pdf)
Serbia
- December 24, 2022: В Белграде сегодня тоже митинг антивоенный, уже сбился какой по счету
Georgia
- October 23, 2022: Protest by Russians in #Tbilisi, chanting “no to war”, happening today on Rustaveli in front of First School, went on for two minutes or more. Speeches, etc., too, many placards in support of #Ukraine. #Georgia [2]
- December 24, 2022: Russians protesting against the war and Putin’s regime [3]
Armenia
- November 22, 2022: Russians in Yerevan, #Armenia are protesting against #Putin and are calling for Armenia to leave Collective Security Treaty Organization (#CSTO) - Putin’s worthless attempt at creating his own NATO. Members: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Russia (CSTO)
United States
Seattle
russians arrested for protesting the russian invasion of Ukraine
- Olesya Krivtsova, Олеся Кривцова, Russian Teenager Must Remain Under House Arrest Until Trial Over Online Posts
- Alexandra Skochilenko, A Russian musician mounts a modest antiwar protest and pays the price Alexandra Skochilenko faces 10 years in prison, bullying and abuse as Moscow makes examples of small-time activists (archive)
russians sentenced for protesting the russian invasion of Ukraine
- Alexei Gorinov, 7 years: A Moscow councillor has been jailed for seven years for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine - in what is said to be the first full jail term under new laws targeting dissent. Alexei Gorinov, 60, was arrested in April after he was filmed criticising the invasion in a city council meeting., July 8, 2022
- Ilya Yashin, 8.5 years: One of Russia’s most prominent opposition figures, Ilya Yashin, has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for spreading “fake news” about the country’s military. One of few Kremlin critics to stay in Russia after it invaded Ukraine, Yashin continued to speak out against the war. He was arrested after he condemned suspected Russian war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha., December 9, 2022
- Maria Ponomarenko, 6 years: Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko jailed for highlighting Mariupol killings, February 25, 2023
russians sentenced for refusing to participate in the russian invasion of Ukraine
- Marsel Kandarov, 5 years: Russian Soldier Jailed for 5 Years for Refusing To Fight in Ukraine
russians tried in absentia for opposing the russian invasion of Ukraine
“ The war against Ukraine is the most destructive and dehumanizing thing that has happened to Russia in recent memory. Without reason or cause, my country invaded the territory of our neighbor that we used to consider a brotherly state. It sent out tanks to seize the Ukrainian capital. It sent planes to bomb Ukrainian cities. It ruined countless human lives. It razed dozens of cities and settlements to the ground. It occupied Ukrainian lands and called them its own with utter disregard for international law.
This war has no justification. Its horror and senselessness are too obvious. But the people who ordered the invasion —Vladimir Putin and his close circle —cannot back down as they are the real criminals and they are afraid of being punished for their crime.
russians killing themselves rather than participating in the russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sergei Gridin: In the Moscow region, a conscript committed suicide because he did not want to fight in Ukraine The conscript left a suicide note. He said that the command wanted to send him to Ukraine. He asked his commander not to send him to the war, after which they started mocking him.
- Sergei Gridin, a 20-year-old conscript from the Komi Republic in northwestern Russia, has committed suicide after refusing to be deployed to Ukraine. “I have decided to die without other people’s blood on my hands," read Gridin’s suicide note.
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-conscript-sergei-gridin-reportedly-kills-himself-to-avoid-ukraine-war
- https://theins.ru/en/news/259409
russians counter-protesting at pro-war rallies
rally in Slovakia
Kremlintarianism/Rage Against the War Machine Rally
Anti-war action
Legal Context
- Bsodislav, Two questions for everyone complaining BWAAA WHY DON’T RUSSIANS PROTEST: 1. Have you ever been beaten by riot police? 2. Have you asked your governments why they ignored human rights violations, political assassinations and election fraud in Russia for decades selling riot gear?
