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To protest against? so, in... this is a very common practice. over 170, i believe, organisations and people have been declared foreign agents since february and there have been a number before that. 22 organisations and people have been declared by russian authorities undesirables and ten organisations as extremists. so this is what the regime is doing, to portray these people as traitors. and vladimir himself was declared a foreign agent in april. at the same time, when he was declared a prison...

Elections, and all other fundamental freedoms that have been taken away from the population. how do you say why this majority of the population is silent? is it because they are indifferent, they dont really care? or is it because they are scared, because they see whats happening to those who do find the courage to protest? i cannotjudge because i know that the results of those opinion polls that are offered to the west, again, by propaganda, and that show the 80—something percent of support f...

Is that anyone who protests against what the regime is doing, anyone who opposes the policies of the current regime, must be a traitor or must be paid by someone else to do that. otherwise, a person would not express any protest because what is there to protest against? so, in... this is a very common practice. over 170, i believe, organisations and people have been declared foreign agents since february and there have been a number before that. 22 organisations and people have been declared by ...

But there is also the fifth column, of course — those people that are represented by the authorities as traitors, as foreign agents. so basically, the idea behind is that anyone who protests against what the regime is doing, anyone who opposes the policies of the current regime, must be a traitor or must be paid by someone else to do that. otherwise, a person would not express any protest because what is there to protest against? so, in... this is a very common practice. over 170, i believe, o...

Continue working both inside the country and outside of the country, trying to encourage protest, offering support to those who do protest and end up in prisons or in psychiatric hospitals. there are organisations like memorial or 0vd—info or mediazona or others, who raise awareness about mass political persecution in russia and about the methods used by the regime against protesters. right. and i believe that those are the things that show that, yes, there are no mass protests, its true. and ...

Whether you, as an activist yourself, who fights for democracy in russia and whether vladimir too, whether actually you are deeply disappointed with what has happened inside russia since this invasion and the failure to see consistent street opposition, public protest, to what the putin government is doing? well, i would say to this that there is consistent streak of opposition in russia. since february, almost 20,000 people have been arbitrarily detained for protesting against the war. and the ...

The third charge of high treason was brought against him based on three public speeches that he made at nato, at the us congress and at the norwegian helsinki committee, talking about mass repression in russia, talking about the number of political prisoners and the illegitimate character of the so—called referendum that allowed vladimir putin make himself into a tsar, basically. vladimir�*s mind—set — well, hes a fighter — hes a fighter, and all those charges against him will not brea...

Free and fair elections, and all other fundamental freedoms that have been taken away from the population. how do you say why this majority of the population is silent? is it because they are indifferent, they dont really care? or is it because they are scared, because they see whats happening to those who do find the courage to protest? i cannotjudge because i know that the results of those opinion polls that are offered to the west, again, by propaganda, and that show the 80—something percen...

Public protest, to what the putin government is doing? well, i would say to this that there is consistent streak of opposition in russia. since february, almost 20,000 people have been arbitrarily detained for protesting against the war. and the number of political prisoners in russia, according to memorial, is today 513 people that are persecuted for their political views and religious beliefs. and i would say that those numbers are big and they are showing that there is opposition. theres no d...

That the results of those opinion polls that are offered to the west, again, by propaganda, and that show the 80—something percent of support for putins war in ukraine, those are opinion polls conducted in a near—totalitarian state by state—controlled pollsters. and i do not believe that the results of such pollsters can be trustworthy. i know that there is a countless number of smaller and bigger organisations that continue working both inside the country and outside of the country, tryin...