According to independent Russian human rights group Ovd-Info, more than 7,600 people have been detained at anti-war demonstrations in the country since 24 February - the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
News of the declaration of war was received in Germany with enthusiasm and demonstrations of national solidarity. The Kaiser's speech of 4 August proclaiming a party truce helped the closing of ranks. In Berlin throngs of smiling youths cheered the mobilisation order and flocked to the colours....
February 23–27 (March 8–12 NS):The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd (also called the March Revolution if following the Gregorian calendar). March 2 (March 15 NS):Czar Nicholas II abdicates and includes his son. The following day, Nicholas' ...
me. I felt that he wanted to show in some way that there is no point in talking to us. We are all choked by this war. And I felt very upset that people do not understand that we are also suffering. My husband was on the demonstrations against the war. What do they know about ...
Russian anti-war activists, in the meantime, planned more protests against the mobilization. Widespread demonstrations that followed the announcement of the partial call-up have seen more than 1,000 arrests, according to an independent monitor group. Flights from Russia were said to be filling up ...
6 In this article, “nuclear signaling” refers to rhetoric as well as gestures, such as exercises and capability demonstrations, employed by an actor to influence the recipient’s perception. In principle, these signals can be aimed at three different audiences: the domestic population, allies, ...
Peter’s ambitions for a “window to the sea” led him, in 1699, to make a secret alliance with Saxony, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Denmark against Sweden; they conducted the Great Northern War, which ended in 1721 when an exhausted Sweden asked for peace with Russia. As a ...
Encouraged by the Bolsheviks, who favoured peace negotiations, there were demonstrations against Kerensky in Petrograd. The Bolshevik popular slogan "Peace, Bread and Land", helped to increase support for the revolutionaries. By the summer of 1917, the membership of the Bolshevik Party had grown ...
The 25-year treason sentence imposed on prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday was a particularly severe show of authorities’ intensifying intolerance of criticism of the war in Ukraine and other dissenting opinions. Under Pre
The court case has sparked demonstrations of support across Europe and the U.S. An activist from feminist group Femen cuts down an Orthodox cross in Ukraine, erected in memory of victims of political oppression, in a show of solidarity with the punk band. Getty Images Writing on the wall?