People arrested for “participation in an unsanctioned meeting” for the first time receive a fine and get a criminal record on the spot, upon the signature of a…
“The hipster bars we went to, the holidays we took in Europe, the idea that we could live a normal life, even in a messed up country – that was all an illusion,” says Valentina, 44, who works for a Moscow literary magazine. Like most of the people talking to me today, she feared for her freedom if identified.
“I laughed at my friends when they said I should open an account in Riga [Latvia] a few months ago,” said Svetlana T, 38, a manager at a Moscow furniture import business who is now stuck in Milan, unable to pay for her hotel room with any of her Sberbank or VTB-issued cards.Article content But those cheap flights turned out to be ghosts left in the machine from pre-war days. This weekend, one-way tickets on Turkish Airlines to Istanbul – one of the few destinations still currently accepting flights from Moscow – were listed at pounds 1,550, with limited availability.
“Everyone who comes out here has a death wish,” said 20-year-old Sasha, a filmmaker. “It’s not bravery. It’s insanity. We’re all risking throwing our lives away.” “We’ve been taken in,” messaged Asya, 20, a film student, to her friends last Sunday night. “We’re sitting in a police paddy wagon. Bad news: we’re in here with guys who have two, three prior arrests. We’re screwed, guys.”
Our conversation was interrupted by more bad news. Another friend – with a fateful three convictions for protesting over the past five years – was picked up by police near a public prayer meeting on Gogolevsky Boulevard.Article content Sofia Abramovich, whose father is Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich, told her 50,000 Instagram followers that “the biggest and most successful lie out of the Kremlin propaganda is that most Russians are with Putin”.
Meduza, a Riga-based news platform, had its online service restricted for most of its Russian users, and the internet-based Dozhd TV was also raided by police and shut down. The sad truth is that this vicious joke actually speaks for the majority of Russians. A recent poll by the state-run VTsIOM centre showed that 68 per cent of Russians approved of the war, with just 26 per cent against.
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