The manifestations of protests in Russia are becoming more and more creative.
Banksy-like drawings on asphalt in Akademgorodok, the educational and scientific center of Siberia , …
The manifestations of protests in Russia are becoming more and more creative. Banksy-like drawings on asphalt in Akademgorodok, the educational and scientific center of Siberia, appear to represent bodies from Bucha, Ukraine, where massacres of civilians recently took place. The figures drawn by a stealth graffiti artist have their hands tied behind their backs as many of the dead in Bucha did. There have been Molotov cocktail attacks on recruiting stations and police cars. A forty-year-old woman in Yekaterinburg who said she had never before been interested in or active in politics sewed her mouth shut and stood out on the street in a busy shopping district with a sign that said, «We cannot remain silent.» Nadezhda Sayfutdinova lasted an hour before she was carted off. Before that, she said, many approached and hugged her. Police tried to get Sayfutdinova committed to a psychiatric hospital. Perhaps the fact she is a single mother got her off the hook — for now. She wonders and worries about what will happen next. Russian entrepreneur Evgeny Chichvarkin was one of the country’s richest young men and feted for his business savvy years ago before he escaped facedown on the floor of a car. The state had put the squeeze on him and apparently tried to shake Chichvarkin down. He now owns a deluxe wine store called Hedonism in London but is active in the opposition politics of Russia.
