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“I hate this whole thing, and I am very afraid. They told us that if we don’t go it’s going to be very strict this time. No explanations will be accepted. We would be fired right away.

I have no way out.”

#Russia
#PutinsWar
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"“I know that people are being killed and it’s awful. And how dare they organize a concert when people are dying?”

She said she was also “forced to participate in elections” and to vote for Putin’s United Russia party or lose her job."

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"“They stuck me on a bus & brought me here,” another woman told SOTA Vision, an independent media outlet. Two photographers from the outlet were arrested trying to cover the rally, and a journalist & another photographer from the outlet were detained."

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"Russian authorities have made strenuous efforts to control information about the war, even banning the use of the terms “war,” “invasion” or “attacks.” Independent media have been shut down, journalists and activists have fled the country"

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