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I can't go but someone else might be able to. Paul Mason and John McDonnell but expect people can bugger off before listening to any speeches
 
Another round-up from the Assembly lot:

Also, finally got around to reading the whole of this article from a few weeks back, for people who can't be bothered reading the whole thing here's a few pictures from it:
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Anarchists in St. Petersburg on March 12, standing with an obscene banner (“denazify your own anus, dog!”) at a time when there were more riot police than human beings in the city center.

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A sticker in Moscow on Sparrow Hills near Moscow State University: “Death to Putinism—peace to the peoples.”


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“[Smash] war.” One of a series of new anti-war posters from Autonomous Action.

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“A person is always responsible for making a choice—so what is your choice?” One of a series of new anti-war posters from Autonomous Action.

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“Attention! Common sense warning: Military operations lead to increasing prices for all categories of goods and services.” One of a series of new anti-war posters from Autonomous Action.
 
In Belarus, a taxi driver refused to drive a Russian soldier. "Until the troops are withdrawn, we will not drive you" he said.
Arrested and charged with "aiding and abetting extremism" and faces up to 7 years inside. That's the upside-down world of the Putin-wannabe's dicatatorship.

 
New roundup from Moscow ABC:
Thankyou. Was just about to post this.
 
Latest news from Russia:
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Last evening, near Karl Marx monument on the Revolution square in downtown of Moscow, a Molotov coctail torched a Russian Guard's vehicle (there are always several police buses parked there). The paddy wagon burned for a couple of minutes and was partially charred, then it was extinguished.

The attacker of that paddy wagon yesterday was detained nearby. Telegram channel ASTRA writes that it was an anti-war action of a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Russian State University for the Humanities. His name is Vitaly Koltsov, to throw a Molotov cocktail he went in a suit and with a suitcase. Before it, he published a poetry about fiery hearts that illuminate the darkness:


If the day goes out forever - our glory will not fade
Death is given only once, we will choose it as we like
To see in the end how the desert lit up
Rising luminary of our fiery hearts


Vitaly Koltsov is the father of three children. A criminal case was initiated against him under Art. 317 of the Criminal Code (encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer). Нe faces up to 20 years of prison.

Тhe evening before May Day, all online surveillance cameras were offed in the downtown of Tver - both on the city administration's website, and from private providers. Then turned out it was for putting up "Fuck the war" posters on the streets by unknown activists. During the day the cameras resumed work.

Thе same night in Perm anarchists dropped the banner "Peace to huts, war to palaces" and decorated with paint one of the Z-billboards. Next time they promised to commit such vandalism more aptly and on a larger scale.

And there is more and more evidence of the unwillingness to fight among those who are already in the occupying forces. The ostensibly intercepted conversation about mass refusal to go on a new offensive in Kharkiv region was published a few days ago by the Security Service of Ukraine:

"We, in short… abandoned this fucking shit, got it? And they keep us here very tough, almost to the being shot. We want to leave, but they don't send us. He says: we were told to shoot you..."

By and large, Russia was able to successfully conduct a general mobilization only under Stalin. During the First World War, this ended badly for the authorities themselves, and they still keep the memory of this. Moreover, even if we assume that the opposition-minded urban youth gets into the RF Armed Forces, after receiving a weapon, some cop with a baton unlikely will be able to scare them, as is the case now. So let's see what option the rotting empire chooses: to accept its defeat in the Ukrainian steppes, or to use a cure worse for it than the disease...
 
Fair bit of objection to the war coming from Yekaterinburg. Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is not happy, but getting a lot of pushback!

Yekaterinburg Museums made a statement:
Museums cancelled openings of exhibitions.

Students of Ural Federal University got up and left en masse a lecture of the dangers of Ukraine and NATO:
Students walking out of the room.

Solovyov called Yekaterinburg a "city of filthy liberals."
Olympic champion boxer Egor Mekhonstev, who is from Yekaterinburg, called him out. "It is you who are the neo-Nazi you are talking about. You divide people into such and such, into Urals and Muscovites, into Ukrainians and Russians. It's you, the rascal"
Egor Mekhontsev speaking in Russian.
What he said.

The governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yevgeny Kuyvashev, asked Solovyov to mind his language after he called Yekaterinburg the "centre of the vile libero."
Solovyov talking to Kuyashev remotely on TV.

Russian singer Aleksandr Novikov has also called out Solovyov.
Singer speaking to camera.

I also read of quite a gruesome protest.
A woman sewed up her mouth and stood in protest with a banner that said, "You can't be silent." Her name is Nadezhda Sayfutdinova. She has been detained. I won't link to it.
 
I've posted from this Russian "vox pop" site before. Young men on the streets of Moscow asked, presumably at random, if they would accept being conscripted. Not many in favour and a fair amount of anti-regime sentiment.

"This war is a crime and the people who started it are war criminals"

 
It looks like I started writing this post a few days ago and then never hit post, I was gonna write:
More unfortunate incidents involving government buildings in Russia and Crimea. This is the military commissariat in Shchyolkovo, Moscow region, and the person in the video has apparently not been identified or arrested:


And here's a government building in Yevpatoria, Crimea:
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A suspect has been arrested for that one though. Source:

Anyway, coming back to this thread because there's another new round-up since then:

A few more videos of Russian military/government buildings getting lit up:

(military recruitment center in Nizhnevartovsk, May 3rd, two suspects now arrested)


(military enlistment office in Cherepovets, May 8th, no suspects arrested as far as I know)

Bonus Moscow graffiti:
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Generals to the noose/Kill a general

This also sounds interesting:
Finally, this week we have seen a new phenomenon in the occupied part of Donbass: women's protests in front of enlistment offices demanding the return home of husbands and sons forcibly mobilized by the Russian proxies.
 
A man in a small town in Leningrad Oblast (North-West Russia) owns a building of a shopping centre.

In giant letters he's painted "Peace to Ukraine, Freedom to Russia!" In bright-red paint he's listed the names of Ukrainian towns that have been attacked by the Russian army.
Mariupol, Bucha, Kherson, Chernihiv, and many more.

Pale building front has large red and blue Russian letters, smaller red letters underneath.


"I thought this would be a good way of getting information out," Dmitry tells me."Because for the first few weeks of the war our people didn't know what was happening. They thought that some kind of special operation was being conducted to remove drug addicts from the Ukrainian government. They didn't know that Russia was shelling Ukrainian towns."Dmitry has even turned the roof of his shop into a giant yellow and blue Ukrainian flag.

Dmitry knows that what he's doing is not without risk. In Russia public protest often ends in prosecution or threats. Or both. Someone has already graffitied "traitor" on his door. And the police have been round to visit. He was later fined for discrediting the Russian armed forces.

"I couldn't just sit doing nothing. It would have torn me apart inside. But what I am doing is an act of desperation. Now Russians are outcasts. We deserve to be. This offensive will cast a shadow over us for a long time."
 
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