{"id":28158,"date":"2022-09-22T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=28158"},"modified":"2022-09-22T08:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:33:40","slug":"several-hundred-detained-as-russians-protest-mobilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=28158","title":{"rendered":"Several Hundred Detained as Russians Protest Mobilization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An article from Moscow Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Several hundred people have been detained across Russia on Wednesday as rallies against a military mobilization declared by President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine took place in areas from the Far East to the capital Moscow.<\/p>\n

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\nWednesday’s protest against mobilization in Ulan-Ude (t.me\/Baikal_People)
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According to the independent OVD-Info police monitor, at least 1,386 protesters have been\u00a0detained\u00a0<\/a> nationwide so far with at least half of the count recorded in the capital Moscow.<\/p>\n

It added that a majority of those detained were women.<\/p>\n

Police in Moscow reportedly handed some detainees summons to the military enlistment office regardless of their experience.<\/p>\n

The Vesna opposition movement as well as supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny\u00a0called\u00a0on Russians nationwide to take to the streets on Wednesday evening to oppose the Kremlin\u2019s decision to bolster its forces in Ukraine with a \u201cpartial\u201d mobilization.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first protests took place across cities in Siberia and the Far East, where dozens were arrested, often just minutes after the rallies began, according to local reports.<\/p>\n

Small groups of protesters gathered in Ulan-Ude, the capital of the republic of Buryatia; Yakutsk, the capital of the republic of Sakha; and the Far East cities of Khabarovsk and Irkutsk.<\/p>\n

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Protesters in Ulan-Ude were seen carrying handwritten signs reading \u201cNo war! No mobilization!\u201d and \u201cOur husbands, fathers and brothers don\u2019t want to kill other husbands and fathers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Siberian city of Tomsk, a female protester carrying a sign reading \u201cHug me if you are also scared\u201d was among the 15 people detained shortly after the start of the protest,\u00a0according\u00a0<\/a> to local Telegram news channel Ulitsa Barkhatnaya.<\/p>\n

In Novosibirsk, Russia\u2019s third-largest city, video\u00a0published<\/a> \u00a0to social media showed a protester shouting \u201cI don\u2019t want to die for Putin or for you!\u201d<\/p>\n

Protests then took place across the cities in Russia\u2019s Volga-Ural region. At least 45 people were detained in the region\u2019s largest city Yekaterinburg, while dozens others were arrested in Perm, Chelyabinsk and Ufa, the capital of the republic of Bashkortostan,\u00a0according\u00a0<\/a> to OVD-Info.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the capital Moscow, several\u00a0hundred people\u00a0gathered on the central Stary Arbat street amid heavy police presence. Protesters could be seen chanting \u201cNo war!\u201d \u201cSend Putin to the trenches!\u201d and \u201cLet our children live!\u201d in videos published to social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In St.\u00a0Petersburg, protesters\u00a0who gathered near the central St. Isaac’s Square were quickly encircled by police, according to\u00a0videos\u00a0<\/a> from the scene. But others\u00a0continued\u00a0<\/a> to march through the city center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rallies also took place in the city of Arkhangelsk in the Far North, the southern city of Krasnodar, the Baltic exclave Kaliningrad and others.<\/p>\n

In Kazan, the capital of the republic of Tatarstan, a small group of female protesters marched through central streets chanting \u201cPeace to the world. No to mobilization!\u201d after the initial rally was dispersed.<\/p>\n

A total of 300,000 Russian reservists are expected to be called up for military service during the campaign, according to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the mobilization efforts could be more far-reaching given the vague wording of the mobilization decree,\u00a0according\u00a0<\/a> to human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov, who has been helping Russian soldiers opposed to the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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