today’s protests in moscow. over 1000 people detained, with lots of police brutality and direct violations of the law. it was intended as a peaceful protest against the shameless rigging of the election to the moscow city council that declared all independent candidates (as opposed to the ruling party) invalid and most of the signatures collected by them fake, later detaining and questioning them and searching their homes at night. the protest was handled with extreme violence, i wrote more about it here. here is a NY Times article about the protest. some examples of the footage of clashes with the police and police violence (heavy content warning): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
you can help by donating to russian human rights organizations, they run entirely on donations and every donation counts. OVD-Info is a project that monitors human rights violations and helps those detained and arrested, both in jails and later in courts. HERE is their donation page in english.
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