‘Putin, stop killing’: Exiled Russian opposition figures Yulia Navalnaya, Ilya Yashin, and Vladimir Kara-Murza announce new Berlin march against Putin
Russian opposition figures Yulia Navalnaya, Ilya Yashin, and Vladimir Kara-Murza have announced plans for a new march against Vladimir Putin, scheduled for March 1 in Berlin.
“February 2025 marks three tragic anniversaries: ten years since the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, three years since the start of the war and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and one year since the murder of Alexey Navalny. Vladimir Putin stands behind all these events,” reads a joint statement published on Yashin’s Telegram channel.
The opposition leaders proposed the slogan “Putin, stop killing” for the march. “Putin is a murderer. Human lives have become fuel for his mad ambitions. He bears responsibility for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. This needs to be said openly. It needs to be said loudly. We must not try to negotiate with a terrorist and murderer but call him exactly what he is,” Yashin wrote.
Yashin, Navalnaya, and Kara-Murza also called on “all anti-war and pro-democracy Russian organizations” to “join forces and organize marches on March 1 in Berlin and around the world.”
The first opposition march in Berlin, also organized by the trio, took place on November 17 and drew several thousand participants.
