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biggest "open letter" (petition) https://www.change.org/netvoyne - has more than 1 million signs (not only from Russia, but it has). Peskov (Putin press secretary) reacted: "It's bullshit and sign cheating with bots"

You even can't use word "war" in massmedia - you'll be instantly blocked in russian internet and fined for 5 mln rubles (about $50k for now). If you want be approved massmedia you must use "special military operation" phrase. They even want to block whole Wikipedia because of this

4th March was signed new law - you can go to jail for 15 years if you participate in meetings against war, if you call war with word "war", if you posting some information against russian army.

Any money sended to Ukraine (even if you have relatives and want to somehow help them) are considered as betrayal of Russia and you could go to jail for years.



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