The Yeltsin Center removed the statement about the war in Ukraine at the request of the security forces. On the page where the statement was previously, when you navigate , a “404 error” appears. This is reported by It's My City, citing a source in the Center.
Readers of the publication clarified that the page has been giving a 404 error since mid-April.
On February 25, a day after the start of the war in Ukraine, an anti-war statement was published on the website:
“On February 24, 2022, our country decided to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine. In 1991, Russia and Ukraine jointly made the choice of their fate - abandoning the legacy of the USSR, they began the difficult path to the community of civilized countries, to democracy and the market. After 30 years, Russia and Ukraine found themselves on opposite sides of the front line. This is an unthinkable disaster for both countries and their peoples. Realizing the full measure of responsibility that lies with us as citizens of the stronger side of the fratricidal conflict, we call for an immediate halt to hostilities.”
Earlier, state media in Russia on the eve of June 3 - the hundredth day of the invasion of Ukraine - were ordered "not to replicate the topic" of the duration of the war and "not to focus" attention on it.
After Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine, Russian pro-Kremlin media outlets began to leave en masse employees who disagreed with military censorship, and some of them decided to take anti-war actions. So, on March 14, Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of Channel One, burst into the live broadcast of a news broadcast for a few seconds with a poster “Stop the war! Don't believe the propaganda, they lie to you here." Before the action, she recorded a video message in which she condemned the actions of the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. On March 15, the journalist was fined 30,000 rubles because of a video where Ovsyannikova called for attending anti-war rallies. On May 9, Lenta.ru journalists Yegor Polyakov and Alexandra Miroshnikova published on the publication's website materials about Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.
