Russians against putin

.......... One petition, started by a prominent human rights advocate, Lev Ponomavyov, garnered more than 150,000 signatures within hours.

More than 100 Russian journalists signed a joint statement condemning the invasion, which they posted on Telegram. Most represented independent news organizations and outlets that opposed Putin. “War has never been and will never be a method of conflict resolution and there are no excuses for it,” the statement said.

One person who did rail against Putin directly was Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. ...........

.............. Open letters condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine kept pouring, too.
More than 6,000 medical workers put their names under one on Saturday; over 3,400 architects and engineers endorsed another while 500 teachers signed a third one.
Similar letters by journalists, municipal council members, cultural figures and other professional groups have been making the rounds since Thursday.
A prominent contemporary art museum in Moscow called Garage announced Saturday it was halting its work on exhibitions and postponing them “until the human and political tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine has ceased." ..............

.............. Two elite Chechen death squads sent to kill Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky have been “neutralized” — thanks to intel from Russian security forces sympathetic to Ukraine, according to a senior Ukraine official. ..............

........  Staff at a leading independent Russian TV station have resigned before airing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, in a Soviet-era signal of political turmoil in the country.


Radio station Ekho Moskvy (the Echo of Moscow) was also taken off the air
Russian officials have pounced on media that have described Russia's attack on Ukraine as an "invasion" or "war"
Russian officials have demanded that the media cover the invasion of Ukraine in strict accordance with the official line.

They have quickly pounced on outlets that have described Russia's attack as an "invasion" or "war", or carried statements from the Ukrainian side.

Dozhd (TV Rain), an independent television station in Russia, announced on Thursday it was suspending operations after receiving a threat of closure from the authorities.

The station's entire staff resigned live on air, signing off with the final statement "no to war" before the renowned Russian ballet played out on the screen, as it did in August, 1991 during an attempted coup which signalled the beginning of the end of the USSR.      ........

.......... A highly decorated former Russian test pilot has delivered a dramatic criticism of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his war on “brotherly Slavic people”. ...........