Are there protests against Putin's "special operation" in Ukraine? Yes, there are. However, not like it used to be. It seems the Kremlin needs to stifle all protest and all dissent. Recently, the main media in the USA did some research on the subject. They examined the many cases of arrests of protestors in the largest country in the world led by a dictator.
What they found after examining all, that is-ALL the cases in Russya where a citizen of the country was arrested by police and charged with violations of "law" regarding dissent against the Ukrainian invasion or connecting the dissent to discrediting the military. The citizens so charged could be fined, detained, or sent to prison for their offense. Many of those arrested were turned in (ratted on) by "friends" and neighbors or unknowns who "over heard" statements alleged to have been made by the citizen. Sounds like the old days of tyranny from 100 years ago well into the purges of the '30's and the post war years of Stalin's paranoia.
Now the internet has become the choice of many protests. However, as folks have learned, the security services troll the internet sites looking for domestic dissent(ers). The citizenry has discovered this operation and most posts have been reduced that speak against the military and the special operation. The number of protests has been reduced this year and most of those involve internet posts. On Russya's most popular site- Russya-owned VK network, over 1000 cases of arrests came from reports by owners(state) of this media site.
In Primorye, the Pacific Coast region, has developed a site where locals can inform on their friends and neighbors. Sounds like Russyans are revisiting their collective history of oppressive government control.
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