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Some 300 women gathered on Tea Street in Moscow’s historic center and held up a long white ribbon. The meeting was organized after Navalnas, considered the biggest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
The women gathered on Sunday said they wanted to show solidarity with Navaln’s wife, Julia, and other women who had been victims of the brutal repression of power.
“By forming the chain, we want to show that we are for love and against violence,” Darya Obrazcova, a 22-year-old student in Moscow, told AFP. “Very brave and wonderful young women gathered here.”
The young woman said she was seeking “freedom and justice” for Russia.
In St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, about a hundred women gathered to form a similar chain near the monument to the victims of political repression. Some of them had flowers, while others recited the poems of Anna Akhmatova, one of Russia’s favorite poets.
“Only love can defeat evil,” Valeria Stepanova, 25, told AFP in St. Petersburg.
These new forms of protests in Russia are similar to those of activists in neighboring Belarus.
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