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The 2022 anti-war protests in Russia was a series of daily anti-war demonstrations and protests which occurred across Russia in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The protests began the same day as President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a "special military operation" in Ukraine, with opposition activist Maria Litvinovich calling for street protests that same night and being detained by police as she left her house. In Moscow, 2,000 protesters gathered near Pushkin Square in the largest first-day demonstration, while 1,000 protesters gathered in St. Petersburg, hundreds in Yekaterinburg, and others in Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, and Perm. By the end of the evening, OMON made 1,820 arrests in 58 cities. On 27 February 2022, protests occurred at a makeshift shrine to the assassinated opposition politician Boris Nemtsov at the site of his assassination in Moscow. By that same day, 4,000 scientists and science journalists, 6,200 medics, 5,000 architects, and 6,700 artists in Russia signed electronic petitions against the invasion. On 6 March, over 5,000 protesters were arrested that same day, bringing the total number of arrests since the start to over 12,000. Protesters were met with police brutality, and thousands of anti-war Russians fled the country rather than risk imprisonment. By 28 February, the state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Center reported that 68% of Russians supported the "special military operation", while 22% opposed it and 10% found it difficult to answer.

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