Thread by @ThomasVLinge

Calls to protest in #Russia 🇷🇺 this Saturday are spreading like a wildfire on Russian TikTok.

Videos like this one show teenagers removing portraits of president #Putin in support of opposition figure #Navalny.

https://twitter.com/IlyaYashin/status/1351573337680580612

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters have started gathering in large crowds around the country following Navalny's call to protest.

Thousands are marching in #Novosibirsk, chanting "Putin is a thief!"

#Russia 🇷🇺: thousands have gathered in -20 degrees in #Tomsk, the city where #Navalny was poisoned

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters flooding the streets in #Vladivostok.

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters in #Perm are chanting "Down with the tsar!"

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters in #Ufa are throwing snow at the police, telling them to leave.

#Russia 🇷🇺: riot police are armed and ready as they face a protesting crowd in #Yekaterinburg. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: thousands have gathered on the main square in #Irkutsk. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters are surrounding the regional duma in the city of #Saratov

#Russia 🇷🇺: #Moscow today. Thousands are gathering to protest against the #Kremlin

#Russia 🇷🇺: in #StPetersburg.

The people vs the state.

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters marching through the cold in #NizhnyNovgorod. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: riot police are chasing protesters in #StPetersburg. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: riot police in #StPetersburg charge into a crowd of protesters, trying to make arrests. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters rallying in #Krasnodar. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: endless stream of protesters in #Izhevsk. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: crowd on Pushkin Square (#Moscow) turn on the riot police as they try to arrest a protester. #23января

#Russia 🇷🇺: wave of protesters breaks through a police fence at Pushkin square in #Moscow.

#Russia 🇷🇺: intense confrontation between protesters and riot police in #Moscow. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters in #Moscow are being beaten by riot police. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: protesters marching through the streets in #Syktyvkar. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: a protester waves the independence flag of #Belarus in the streets of #StPetersburg.

Amazing sign of solidarity between two peoples, fighting the same oppression. #23январяЗаСвободу.

#Russia 🇷🇺: no love for the riot police in #Moscow. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: riot police aggressively push people asside as they arrest anti-corruption lawyer and #Navalny ally Lyubov Sobol. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: playing soccer with a police helmet ⚽⚽

#Russia 🇷🇺: riot police apparently needs seven officers to beat up one defenseless guy. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: thousands are out to protest in #StPetersburg. The crowd is blocking traffic in the city center. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: thousands marching through #StPetersburg. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: plain-clothed police literally carrying a protester away in the city of #Vladimir. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: cat-and-mouse game between protesters and police as night falls in #Moscow. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: one police officer apparently got hit with pepper spray. Not sure whether it was his own. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: getting arrested with the boys. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺: a lone protester out to support #Navalny in the #Ural town of Alapaevsk. #23январяЗаСвободу

#Russia 🇷🇺

#Russia 🇷🇺: in #Moscow it's batons against snowballs tonight.

#Russia 🇷🇺: police officer scratches away protest chants that were written in the frost on the wall. #23январяЗаСвободу

Wtf is wrong with these guys?