"The stickers on our apartments had an SS handwriting."
How Oksana Akmaeva, a well-known organizer of cultural events in Kaliningrad, went to an anti-war rally on February 24, after which she was persecuted and granted political asylum in Germany
Nikita Skoba: "In Russia, they always make you put your head down.
I experienced everything at once - fear, confusion, anger, hatred. I wanted to go, to shoot, to defend. Then my wife talked sense into me. I realized I wasn't ready to take up arms. Guns bring only death.
"And here they found it! In the taiga bushes!"
Omsk archaeologist Evgeny Kruglov was taken to the IC directly from an expedition in the Tyumen region. He is suspected under an article on "fakes" for anti-war posts on VKontakte.
"I ran four laps with the Ukrainian flag."
On September 10, amateur runner Andrei Korolchuk in Novosibirsk ran a marathon with a Ukrainian flag on his shirt. After that he was charged with "discrediting the Russian Armed Forces". The case was dismissed.
"The state has turned into a sect of barbarians and murderers."
Solitary pickets in the Pskov region and the fight for activists in courts. The story of turning a policeman into a politician, then into an official, and after February 24th into a human rights activist.
"We are the heroes of our time."
The story of a young professor from Tomsk is about how he waited for rallies of many thousands in Moscow, carried out anti-war agitation... and then was fired from two jobs.