One year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russians living in 120 cities in 45 countries around the world demonstrated once morest President Putin’s war of aggression. The New York Times reported on the 26th (local time).
According to the newspaper, 120 people from around the world, including London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Chicago, as well as Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where dissident Russians have been exiled, will travel for regarding four days from the 23rd to the 26th. City..
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One year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russians living in 120 cities in 45 countries around the world demonstrated once morest President Putin’s war of aggression. The New York Times reported on the 26th (local time).
According to the newspaper, 120 people from around the world, including London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Chicago, as well as Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where dissident Russians have been exiled, will travel for regarding four days from the 23rd to the 26th. Anti-Putin and anti-war demonstrations were held simultaneously in the city. Hundreds to thousands of Russians and sympathetic locals in each city carry Ukrainian flags or anti-war flags with blue vertical stripes on a white background that read: “We oppose Putin’s imperialist war.” ’ he cried. Among the slogans were “Freedom for Russia, Victory for Ukraine.”
There was also a performance in which the Russian army read out the cities destroyed by the Russian army one by one, accusing them of inhumane acts of barbarism, and a model depicting President Putin imprisoned in prison. At a demonstration in Chicago, he pointed out, “The war in Ukraine was launched to keep Putin in power,” and “Russia’s justification for the war is an excuse for Putin’s consolidation of power.”
Many former Russian vested interests such as opposition activists from oil conglomerates, former aides to the Russian presidential office, former members of the House of Representatives, and now elites living abroad also participated in the demonstrations. At a demonstration held in front of the Russian Embassy in London, some argued that “the end of this war will be the end of the Putin regime” and that “the power struggle within Russia is in full swing.”
In Russia, anti-war demonstrations were held to commemorate the war dead. In Perm, central Russia, a billboard criticizing the word “disgrace” with a “Z” representing the war of aggression once morest Ukraine appeared as “the year of disgraze.” OVD-info, a Russian human rights watchdog, reported that 65 people had been detained and interrogated for their anti-war activities across Russia by the 25th.
Paris-Chung Chol-hwan correspondent
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