Russian activists and journalists discovered threatening messages painted on their apartment doors on after Vladimir Putin delivered a speech calling for a “self-cleansing of society” from “scum and traitors.” “Don’t betray your country, bitch,” read one message painted in white on the front door of a journalist’s apartment. Anna Loiko, a journalist for the opposition news site SOTA, which has closely covered protests against the war in Ukraine, was among those targeted. Activists Dmitry Ivanov and Olga Misik also received such messages, which featured the symbol “Z” that Russia has tried to use to drum up support domestically for its all-out war against Ukraine. “This is the message left for me by anonymous ‘defenders of the homeland,’” Ivanov wrote on Telegram alongside a photo of his defaced door. “My apartment has undergone cosmetic procedures,” Misik quipped on Twitter.
via yahoo: Russian Activists and Journalists Targeted After Putin’s Call for Purge of ‘Traitors’
siehe auch: Russian Activists and Journalists Targeted After Putin’s Call for Purge of ‘Traitors’. “Don’t betray your country, bitch,” read one message painted on a journalist’s door after Putin urged a “self-purification of society.” (…) The anonymous messages come less than 24 hours after Putin’s Wednesday speech which publicly cheered on the “self-cleansing of society” that has happened inside Russia as a result of the Kremlin’s devastating war against Ukraine. Many prominent Russians left the country, while hundreds were detained and charged for protesting Moscow’s aggression. Claiming that the West is relying on “national traitors” inside Russia to divide the country with their “slavish consciousness,” Putin took aim at those who have echoed calls from the international community to stop the war. He bashed those with ties to the West and accused them of cozying up to Europe and the U.S. to feel like they belong to a “higher caste.” Russian people “will be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths,” he said.