Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Focus: Russian intel ops, Eastern Europe. Senior Fellow @CEPA Co-host @kremlinfile podcast Director @SyriaUkraineSUN Senior investigative researcher @IEI_ngo

Aug 10, 2019, 9 tweets

Another weekend of protest hits Moscow
Despite beatings, detentions, bank freezes, threats people are coming out in full force.
Putin’s criminal thugs are trying their hardest to stop this over the past month

Journalist was met with chants of shame

Protests have spread to St Petersburg in solidarity with Moscow


Chants of Putin is a thief

This is what happened over the week. Putin thugs are doing everything to suppress these protests. The attendance is being reported at over 40,000. This makes me so hopeful and proud of everyone risking their lives for a better future

Long thread from last week protests

This is the 5th weekend of protests 🙏🏼

Newest update is the crowd was estimated at 60,000

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