"Stop Putin! Stop the war! Free political prisoners!" These are the demands that Russian opposition leaders will take to their rally in Berlin on Sunday. The plan is to march to the Russian Embassy near Brandenburg Gate, in a march co-organized by prominent Kremlin critics Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who were released from Russian custody in a dramatic prisoner exchange last August.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Will protesters carry Russia's flag? In Russia, those who protest the country's war in Ukraine risk long prison sentences.
Many Ukrainian activists in Europe, and especially in Germany, who regularly take a stand against Russia's war have asked why the Russian war opponents aren't out making their voices heard.
Ahead of Sunday's protest, a dispute has unfolded on social media over whether protesters will be able to carry the Russian flag through Berlin. Critics have said Russia's colors have since been discredited by the country's brutal war.
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