Vladimir Putin has been hit by a fresh result as furious Russian wives take to the streets in part of a new wave of protests.
Partners of Russian wives demonstrated against Putin as part of widely celebrated International Women’s Day events.
Mothers were expected to spearhead initial protests following Putin’s invasion of the ex-Soviet state in February 2022.
However, following mass crackdowns on oppositions, mothers were unable to mobilise similarly to how they had during Russia’s war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s.
The wives of Russian soldiers have seemed to face-down the Kremlin’s desperate efforts to silence them, particularly after Moscow’s mobilisation order in September 2023.
The Way Home group has become an important presence at the protests after issuing a manifesto in November 2023.
Dozens of The Way Home were detained last month after gathering at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while wearing white headscarves and bringing carnations.
Russian lawmaker Oleg Matveychev last year even proposed banning feminism as an “extremist ideology,” a label which was recently applied to what authorities described as the “LGBT movement.”
Activist Viktoria Privalova told Politico: “It’s clear the authorities see women as a threat and feel their power, but no one understands how to contain them.”
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