Multiple outlets report that police officers wearing masks and camouflage arrested Yevgeny Roizman, a Russian opposition politician and former Russian mayor, at his home on Wednesday for speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The former mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, attended an interview.
Roizman, the former mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city Yekaterinburg, told reporters that he was going to be arrested for calling the war an invasion.
Roizman had been fined several times earlier this year for similar charges. I don't have a defense.
A former Russian state television journalist who interrupted a live broadcast to condemn Russia's war in Ukraine was arrested for spreading false information about the war.
The two opposition politicians have been charged with spreading false information about Russia's army.
Russia has called its invasion of Ukraine a special military operation and has cracked down on those who use the words "war" or "invasion" to describe it. A month after the invasion began, Putin signed a new law making it a crime to spread false news about Russia's military. According to the New York Times, Roizman could face up to three years in prison. Alexei Navalny was a vocal supporter of Roizman. Major publications such as the BBC and Voice of America have been blocked by the Russian government. Ukrainians are bracing themselves for possible attacks from Russia on Independence Day and the beginning of the war.
16,437 is the total number of people. That is how many people have been arrested in Russia for sharing anti-war sentiment since the country invaded Ukraine.
Over the course of the war, American concern for Ukraine waned according to a poll. Since the beginning of the war in March, 39% of U.S. voters say they are very concerned about Russia. More voters are likely to say they are concerned, up from 34% at the beginning of the invasion. According to the survey, Democrats were more concerned than Independents and Republicans.
A former Russian mayor is in jail.
A critic of the war is taken into custody. The New York Times is a daily newspaper in the United States.
A Russian journalist was placed on house arrest for protesting the war in Ukraine.
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