(17 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – 17 November 2024
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1. Close of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, and Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin holding banner
2. Pan of Yashin, Kara-Murza and Navalnaya walking to podium outside Russian embassy
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition figure:
“Thank you to everyone who is here today. We, citizens of Russia, demand the withdrawal of Putin’s occupiers from the territory of Ukraine, we demand the release of our comrades and like-minded people, Russian political prisoners. And we demand that not only Putin himself be brought to justice, but also all his accomplices, the war criminals who have seized power in our country.”
4. Wide of Yashin, Kara-Murza and Navalnaya at rally
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny:
“We must come and fight against this war that Putin has unleashed on Ukraine, come and remind of, and remember the political prisoners. We must come out for those people who are in Russia and cannot come out now, we must come out for those people who could not come today, we must come out for those people who are now in prison, we must come out for the people who were killed, take their place and continue to fight. Russia will be free!”
6. Wide of Yashin, Kara-Murza and Navalnaya raising their hands
7. Wide of crowd
8. Yashin, Kara-Murza and Navalnaya chanting UPSOUND (Russian): “Russia is us. Russia is us.”
9. Various of people outside Russian embassy
STORYLINE:
Prominent Russian opposition figures led a march of at least 1,000 people in central Berlin Sunday, criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine and calling for democracy in Russia.
Behind a banner that read “No Putin. No War,” the protesters were led by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of top Putin critic Alexei Navalny, as well as Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who were freed from Russian detention in a high-profile prisoner exchange this summer.
Shouting “Russia without Putin” and other chants in Russian, the demonstrators held up signs with a wide array of messages on a red background, including “Putin = War” and “Putin is a murderer” in German.
Some marched with the flags of Russia or Ukraine, as well as a white-blue-white flag used by some Russian opposition groups.
The march began near Potsdamer Platz and went through the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie and ended outside the Russian Embassy where Yashin, Kara-Murza and Navalnaya addressed the crowd.
“We, citizens of Russia, demand the withdrawal of Putin’s occupiers from the territory of Ukraine, we demand the release of our comrades and like-minded people, Russian political prisoners. And we demand that not only Putin himself be brought to justice, but also all his accomplices, the war criminals who have seized power in our country,” Vladimir Kara-Murza said at the rally.
Yashin, in a statement before the demonstration, said demonstrators were “using the freedom we have here in Berlin to show the world: A peaceful, free, and civilized Russia exists.”
Navalnaya, Yashin and Kara-Murza have all billed Sunday’s rally as a show of unity at a time when recent rounds of acrimony have roiled the anti-war camp.
Russia’s exiled anti-war opposition has so far largely failed to speak with one voice and present a clear plan of action.
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