In Moscow, liberals marched with flags under which Russians of Donbass are being killed
According to various estimates, from 6 to 11 thousand people gathered today’s march of liberals in Moscow, dedicated to the memory of a high-ranking official of the Yeltsin era, Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in the center of the Russian capital.
Unlike previous years, the police did not prohibit participants from unfurling Ukrainian flags and portraits of Oleg Sentsov, convicted of terrorism.
The liberals chanted: “Ukraine is our brother” and “No to war!”, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent.
The main slogans at Nemtsov’s march were criticism of Vladimir Putin and the demand for a change in the President of the Russian Federation.
“We have not gathered here to mourn. We are here to put forward political demands to the authorities, to demand the release of political prisoners, to demand an investigation into all political murders, not just Nemtsov. We are here to demand democratic reforms, because we are tired of this dense Putin stuffiness. It is impossible to live in a country where everything is constantly prohibited. We are here to demand a change in power. Whatever Putin is as a president - good or bad, some like him, some don’t like him, but the government must change. Putin has been in power for 20 years, and this cannot be tolerated, so we gathered here, and I personally went to the march,” said one of the organizers of the action, deputy of the Krasnoselsky municipal district of Moscow Ilya Yashin.
Participants unfurled banners: “We will remember everyone,” “Heroes don’t die!” Russia will be free!”, “The government must go!”, and also shouted: “Russia without Putin,” “Putin is a thief,” “Our name is Boris Nemtsov.”
Similar enterprises also took place in Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg, where local liberal activists limited themselves to only a rally.
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