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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 prisoner of conscience by amnesty international. erm, again in september, as i already mentioned,

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 don't really care? or is it because they are scared, because they see what's 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 for putin's war in ukraine, those are opinion polls conducted in a near—totalitarian state by sta...

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 russian authorities undesirables and ten organisations as extremists. so this is what the regime is ...

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, organisations and people have been declared foreign agents since february and there have been a numbe...

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, it's true. and i believe that those are the things that show that, yes, there are no mass protests, it's true. whe...