At least 1.000 supporters of the Russian opposition in exile, led by Yulia Navalyan, gathered today for a march in Berlin against the war in Ukraine and against Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that rally aims to revive the protest movement.
The protest march, which serves as a test for Russian oppositionists, began with the chants of "No to war", "Russia without Putin" and "Russia will be free", reported the Agence France-Presse from the scene.
The march in Berlin, a city that received a large number of Russian exiles and opponents of the government, ended in front of the Russian embassy.
The organizers estimated that there were about 2.000 people.
The opposition, which lost its leader Alexei Navalny in February, who died under unexplained circumstances in prison, has been deprived of the means to operate in Russia and has therefore been forced to restart the movement from abroad.
Yulia Navalny, wife of Alexei Navalny, and his allies led the procession.
"It is important to show that Russians and those who speak Russian are not all for Putin, as is believed in the eyes of the whole world, but that they also defend liberal-democratic values, that they are against war and murder," said one protester.
The last large gatherings of opposition supporters in Russia spontaneously gathered several thousand people, despite the risks, during Navalny's funeral in March 2024 and at the very beginning of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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