Many Russians thought they knew their president. They were wrong. From The New York Times
And by Thursday, it appeared too late to do anything about it.
Other Russians expressed themselves more openly. From St. Petersburg to Siberia, thousands took to city streets chanting, “No to war!” clips posted on social media showed, despite an overwhelming presence by police officers. OVD Info, a rights group, said more than 1,700 people were arrested across the country.
“I’ve always tried to understand Putin,” said a third analyst, Tatiana Stanovaya of the political analysis firm R. Politik.“He has become less pragmatic and more emotional,” Stanovaya said. Meanwhile, Russia’s stock market plummeted by 35%, and ATMs ran short of dollars. On the country’s internet, still mostly uncensored, Russians saw their vaunted military sow carnage in a country in which millions of them had relatives and friends.
Like many Thursday, she declined to reveal her name for fear that the outbreak of war could bring with it a new crackdown on people’s freedoms. Ksenia Sobchak, another television celebrity whose father was mayor of St. Petersburg and a 1990s mentor to Putin, posted on Instagram that from now on she would only “believe in the worst possible scenarios” about her country’s future. Days earlier, she had praised Putin as a “grown-up, adequate politician” compared to his Ukrainian and U.S. counterparts.
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