In Russia, authorities have detained individuals for actions seen as disrespectful or critical of the state. An AFP correspondent was detained in Moscow for watching a protest by grieving mothers. A woman was arrested for a video mocking the Motherland Calls statue, with Russian activists demanding to cover its 'shameful places'. The 23-year-old influencer, Alena Agafonova, now faces up to five years in prison for 'rehabilitating Nazism' and made a public apology. Russian authorities also threatened journalists not to cover a flower-laying event by The Way Home, an advocacy group for the rotation and demobilization of soldiers from Ukraine, but people still gathered in support. In Yekaterinburg, five individuals were arrested during an anti-mobilization demonstration.
In Yekaterinburg, Russia on Saturday, five people who came to lay flowers at a military memorial as part of a demonstration against mobilization were reportedly arrested. https://t.co/ioRkREmhWE
Influencer, 23, who filmed herself tickling breast of famous Russian war statue makes grovelling public apology as she faces five years in jail for the Instagram video in Putin's hardline Russia https://t.co/0xK8PrOaD8 https://t.co/GHNVFa5B33
A weekly action of wives of mobilized people has started in Moscow The media are already reporting the first detentions of participants and journalists. The military guard of honor prohibited to hold a minute of silence and leave the territory of the eternal flame. https://t.co/n3uOWlfKbV
People lining up in the Alexandrovsky Garden at the Kremlin, as part of today's protest by "The Way Home" (the group advocating for rotations/demobilization of husbands/sons from Ukraine). Authorities warned reporters ahead of time not to cover the event (per @derspiegel) https://t.co/JUU5ZzBW0N
.@derSpiegel's Moscow correspondent says Russian authorities are threatening reporters -- foreign and Russian -- not to cover today's planned flower-laying event by women from The Way Home (the group advocating for rotations/demobilization of husbands/sons from Ukraine) https://t.co/KibgdNEFum
⚠️ RUSSIAN COURT DETAINS WOMAN FOR INSULTING WWII MONUMENT (Reuters) A Russian court has detained a 23-year-old woman on suspicion of "rehabilitating Nazism" after she filmed a video mocking a monument to the World War Two Battle of Stalingrad, the local branch of Russia's… https://t.co/4MxWFM2WHJ
Russians demand to cover the "shameful places" of the Motherland Monument in Russia, namely, "obviously protruding nipples." According to a Russian activist, this is nothing but "homosexual moments and a decline in morality". Earlier, a Russian blogger Alena Agafonova was… https://t.co/dMFAX4sakZ
Russia’s descent into madness continues as police arrest a woman at a Moscow airport for posting a video last year where she tickles the Motherland Calls breasts. They delivered her to Volgograd, where she’ll face “rehabilitation of Nazism” charges and maybe 5 years in prison. https://t.co/jaa9XPvorp
On Saturday, Moscow police detained one of his AFP colleagues. For the offense of watching grieving mothers protest a war their sons died in, or are fighting in. These are the risks of covering Russia as anything more than Putin's caricature ("strong country love fight-fight"). https://t.co/xMh6J36Puf