Much noise about this letter by Gen. Leonid Ivashov & the 'All-Russian officers assembly', calling for Putin's resignation. Yet, when the group was formed in 2003 they already demanded Putin's resignation, supported by communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. 1/ ooc.su/news/obrashhen…
2/ In 2008 they even decided to organize a military tribunal against his "destructive" behavior. In 2011 the tribunal found Putin unfit for public office, this time supported publicly by Communist Duma deputy Viktor Ilyukhin, who has been known as the "red prosecutor".
3/ The OOC is not a large group. In fact, there is no official membership list. OOC "members" are either part of the OOC Council, about 30 people, or belong to those, who registered at irregular (annual) meetings. OOC itself has no information who these people are prior to 2018.
4/ OOC and Ivashov personally pursue a wild ideological amalgam: a kinda left wing Soviet religious-orthodox, patriotic conservatism. Important for Western readers to understand: anti-Putin in Russia does not equal pro-liberal and even less pro-West.
5/ As @SokovNikolai notes, this group has its origins in 1989-1991, as the "All-army officers assembly". These and other groups, i.e. Union of Officers by Stanislav Terekhov, initially rejected the decision to dissolve the Soviet Union/Soviet armed forces. kommersant.ru/doc/2614
6/ Now the OCC was founded in direct opposition to Russian statehood as it evolved after 1991, not only under Putin. Not by change that Ilyukhin supported it. The "red prosecutor" became famous because he initiated legal cases against Gorbachev & Yeltsin accusing them of treason.
7/ The OCC, in fact, published another letter exactly a year ago, in which they call the Russian regime "criminal", "incompetent", and even note politically motivated arrests of #Navalny, Furgal etc. No one paid attention then. In short, this is not about Ukraine. 
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