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“We will continue our action until
Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin)
returns our men and responds to our demands.”
Around fifty women, including Maria Andreïeva, one of the leaders of the "Pout' Domoï" ("The Way Back") movement, gathered on Saturday at noon under the walls of the Kremlin, very close to Red Square, to demand the end of the mobilization, decreed five hundred days ago, and
“save our fellow citizens from the minced meat”.
Two by two, with a white hat or scarf – their rallying sign – they place red carnations on the slab where the eternal flame of the tomb of the unknown soldier of the “Great Patriotic War” (1941-1945) burns, one of the emblematic official places in the center of the Russian capital.
In the small crowd, many journalists, Russian and foreign – around twenty of whom were arrested, including an AFP videographer
,
a member of the
AP
agency , the magazine…
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