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Has support for the war in Russia decreased? – 24 hours |

When Moscow launched an attack on Ukraine on February 24, tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets and thousands were detained. The sixth month of the occupation is over. To the war in the country protest Although there are brave individuals left, many of them do not hide their disappointment at the indifference of the society.

In the two weeks after the occupation, 13,500 people who opposed the war were detained in Russia. The calculation was carried out by OVD-Info, which monitors repression in the country.

Sociologist, anti-war activist Iskander Yasaveyev then he told RFE/RL that “for a few weeks” public support for the war in Russia will subside.

“Many people will begin to compare their situation with the news that has been delivered to them. They will understand that they are being told lies and propaganda.” – he said.

What is revealed in six months

The West says that at least 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine during the six-month war. This was in the Soviet Afghanistan in the 1980s 10 more than the number of dead in the war that lasted more than a year.

According to Yale University, more than a thousand Western companies have left Russia.

Many protestors who opposed the war either imprisonment or long-term imprisonment faced the intended charges. Hundreds of thousands of Russians left the country.

RFE/RL’s Robert Coalson writes that as the war in Ukraine drags on, there are no signs of any mass anti-war movement or growing public discontent in Russia. Dissatisfaction is shown by a few brave individuals who do not accept the occupation from the beginning.

An activist decorating the letter “Z” with blue and yellow flowers

“I’m ready to go to jail,” – since the beginning of the occupation, I am a medical school instructor who holds individual protests in Ivanovo, 250 km northeast of Moscow. Olga Nazarenko he says.

“If this happens, I will continue the pickets again as soon as I have served my sentence and been released. I am not afraid of arrest. People live there too. They can’t put all of us in jail, they can’t silence everyone,” – he says.

Nazarenko recently participated in large-scale demonstrations against the war. But later, as their number decreased, individualism resorted to protests, social he has seen others do the same in the media.

They once criticized Nazarenko, who said that many people were “aggressive” to his protests. On top of the mailbox in his house, he wrote the letter “Z”, “Ukraine they wrote the words “animal”. Pro-Kremlin figures present the letter “Z” as a symbol of support for the war and the army.

“I decorated the letter with blue and yellow flowers, now it looks beautiful”, – he speaks.

The cause of courage

19-year-old student from Astrakhan Dilara and in the city “it can be said political he emphasizes that there is no life. He only gives his name for fear of persecution for his views.

Dilara says that last year imprisonment opposition leader Alexei Navalnyor there was a hazy hope in the demonstrations of support: “Now I don’t see it. There is a feeling of complete helplessness, we have no rights, no influence. If you oppose the war, you are considered an apostate…”

30-year-old choreographer from Ufa Ilmira Rakhmatullina he was one of the 5,000 people detained in the anti-war protests on March 6.

“Of course, compared to what happened at the beginning of the war, fewer and fewer people are participating in anti-war protests in Russia now. They are afraid of reprisals against themselves and their families. I don’t have a husband or a child, so I have a better heart. I don’t blame people for being afraid. But at the same time, we can’t stay calm.” Rakhmatullina Azadlig Radioson said.

Apathy, indifference

Sociologist from Moscow, chief researcher of Levada survey center Lev Gudkov he says, after a brief flurry in the first round Russia “under the influence of propaganda”, in order to avoid the “unpleasant effects of this war” in the majority of the public, the feelings of “apathy, indifference and detachment towards everything happening there” have intensified.

“Strangely enough, this happened in groups where I expected a completely different reaction – young people, wealthier and more educated people. They retreated very quickly, began to show the greatest indifference and intolerance to the war.” Gudkov emphasizes.

Anti-war activists who spoke to RFE/RL are worried about the future, many of them saying that real change in Russia will take years, if not generations.

“I want to believe that there will be a change for the better. The main issue is that normal people come to power. I really believe that Russia 15-20 will come out of this hole and begin to restore normal, humane foundations”, – says Rakhmatullina, a protester from Bashkortostan.



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