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- grafician-1
"Hundreds arrested in protests across Russia after announcement of partial mobilization, monitoring group says"
"More than 500 people have been detained across Russia in a crackdown on anti-war protests across two dozen cities in Russia, according to the independent monitoring group OVD-Info.
About 100 arrests were made at protests in St. Petersburg after President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial mobilization to increase the availability of troops for the war in Ukraine.
Photos released on OVD-Info's Telegram channel showed police in Saint Petersburg using batons against protesters. Videos show police attempting to contain a crowd gathering at Isakiivskiy Cathedral behind barriers, amid chants of “no mobilization."
Social media video geolocated by CNN showed protests in several cities, each involving what appear to have been a few dozen people.
Videos from Moscow showed protestors being carried away by the police at a demonstration in the center of the city.
One video posted by a journalist from the Moscow web publication The Village includes dozens of people in Arbatskaya street chanting “let him go” as one man is carried away.
There was also video from the city of Yekaterinburg of a struggle between police officers and protesters.
As of 8 p.m. Moscow time, 535 people had been detained in 30 cities across Russia, according to OVD-Info.
Arrests took place in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Tomsk, Ufa, Perm, Belgorod and Moscow, according to the OVD-info tally.
Moscow prosecutor's office published a statement Wednesday warning citizens against participation in protests, threatening those with up to 15 years in jail."
- Find it odd that protesters are letting the police hit and take people like that, there is no solidarity at these protestsgrafician
- lots of videos: https://twitter.com/…grafician
- come to think of it, Russians have zero experience protesting...grafician
- Need to have a strategy like they discuss in this bookyuekit
- https://www.nonviole…yuekit
- Or maybe they should just try to sabotage the war by destroying railroads, military equipment, recruitment office.yuekit
- dbloc4
Unconfirmed! There are rumors that tomorrow at UN in New York, Biden is going to make the proposal that Russia Gets kicked out of the United Nations.
- It will fuel the "West is against us" rhetoric?grafician
- there is a saying in Russia: "It has never happened before, and here it is again"zaq
- Would be funny. Russia out and North Korea still in?NBQ00
- How about a big 'Group Hug'? Peace Out.shapesalad
- '[...] upon the recommendation of the Security Council.'
I see a bit of a flaw with this idea, but I can't quite put my finger on it.Continuity
- NBQ000
(Video) - The traffic jam at the border with Russia/ Finland has pilled up to 35KM and is rising by the hour, it is the only border who is still open for Russian civilians with Schengen visas, after Putin announced he will send 300.000 new troops to Ukraine.
- grafician1
- I'm keeping track at the window ledge of my home.shapesalad
- That would be Trump's 'Murica. He'd eliminate anyone, anyway he could.formed
- Like he did during the 4 years as president, and unchecked powers that come with the state of emergency he presided over (covid)?monNom
- NBQ000
Requests on Google "how to leave the country" have increased:
- sted0
Today, Saturday, September 17, Russian warplanes launched air strikes targeting two stone-cutting machines on the outskirts of the village of Hafsarja, west of Idlib, injuring a worker, and raids loaded with cluster ammunition targeted forests in the area
- Nothing like being in two completely separate theatres of operation.Continuity
- Nothing like destroying high-value targets!utopian
- Krassy1
- ...with a coffin between themgrafician
- symbolicKrassy
- and the whole set up is also somewhat vaginalKrassy
- big pussyshapesalad
- Continuity2
Well hey-ho, they're moving on from poison and defenestration to drowning!
'Russian businessman’s body found in latest mysterious death'
- NBQ000
Meantime in Saint Petersburg, Russia...
- wow..haha. how?!shapesalad
- meanwhile, you've been pick-pocketed.monNom
- neverscared2
Russian oil chief Maganov dies in 'fall from hospital window'
The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.
Maganov, 67, was being treated at the city's Central Clinical Hospital and died from his injuries, sources told Russian media.
He is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.
- at least his car didnt blow upneverscared
- i'm sure it's just an accidentpango
- They really need to check those hospital windows. Defo seem to have a design fault in Russian hospitalsPhanLo
- it happen all the time.ApeRobot
- sted0
Reality check.
- European gas transport has fallen by a fifth compared to the pre-war period, and revenues from oil and gas are 18 percent lower than last year when looking atsted
- the pre-war period, and revenues from oil and gas are 18 percent lower than last year when looking at the period from January to August.sted
- drgs1
- opportunity for china?
https://www.bloomber…uan - China has so many people under cover lockdown, almost the same as the entire usa population...shapesalad
- ...toemaas
- ...economic warfaretoemaas
- opportunity for china?
- grafician-2
"Russia's energy giant Gazprom said today that China will start paying for Russian gas in rubles and yuan instead of US dollars, as Moscow seeks closer ties with Beijing in the wake of Western sanctions over Ukraine. - AFP"