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cities around russia after mobilisation was announced. but they are really low level at this stage, and that is because many people do feel like there's no point in protesting, because ultimately there's not going to be a massive overthrow. it's not legal to be protesting in russia at the moment. and people who are picked up off the streets that we saw, there were about 1,400 people picked up from st petersburg, moscow and other cities, they will be detained and if they are arrested again, that could mean that they get a jail sentence. so a lot of people don't want to risk this. some people just leave the country. now in terms of whether or not president putin can continue to bring people with him with mobilisation, i think it probably brings a lot more of this home to certain people. and i think there's a big concern that while at the moment this is partial mobilisation, many in russia are worried that it could expand. that's why we've heard lots of reports of people trying