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Russia had its proud moments in history, but is also responsible for some of the worst humanitarian aberrations, continued today under Putin.

MOSCOW — For most Russians, their country’s two-year war with Ukraine has long faded into the background of everyday life.  “The average Russian is just waiting for this to end,” was how one Moscow resident described prevailing sentiments about the war. “The idea of 'let me live my life and leave me alone' resonates with many people who chose to stay in the country and are simply waiting things out,” he told The Moscow Times, requesting anonymity to speak candidly.

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The wives and relatives of Russian soldiers deployed to Ukraine are expanding their protests. Despite the risks of being arrested, they are calling for the return of their loved ones. Can they force change?

The wives and other relatives of Russian soldiers conscripted for the war in Ukraine have held a number of single pickets in Moscow and laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier [a war memorial dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during World War II - ed.

Russia on Friday labeled a women's organization campaigning for the return of mobilized men from Ukraine and a former pro-peace presidential candidate "foreign agents."

Put’ Dumoi (Way Home), a Russian movement of mostly wives and mothers of mobilized soldiers calling for the return of their loved ones from the frontlines and an end to mobilization, has released a video plea of a soldier’s widow decrying the invasion of Ukraine.  The nine-minute-long video recorded by St.

As the year draws to a close, Russia’s motley landscape of civil rights defenders, election monitors, environmental campaigners, anti-war activists and others is more beleaguered than ever before.  Confronted with the increasingly oppressive machinery of the Russian state, scores of activists and the organizations to which they belong have gone into survival mode, with many forced into exile abroad, where they strive to continue their work.  The first year of Russia’s invasion saw an explo...

The Kremlin is investing in movements of wives and mothers who support the war in Ukraine and promote traditional values to counter the growing influence of protesting relatives of soldiers, according to a report by the independent news outlet Holod published Tuesday.   Mobilized soldiers’ relatives, most notably the Put’ Domoi (Way Home) group, are demanding the return of their sons and husbands from the frontlines, where they are being kept for longer than promised.