Russian artist Yelena Osipova, 77, was arrested by Russian police as she peacefully demonstrated against Russian forces' assault on Ukraine on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, CNews reports.
Footage of his arrest has gone viral on social media, garnering nearly 9 million views.
The septuagenarian, who was applauded during her arrest, has thus become the symbol of the Russian peace movement.
The activist is now nicknamed "the Russian grandmother against the war", underlines
Paris Match
.
Yelena Osipova has already experienced war, including the siege of Leningrad (former name of Saint Petersburg) which took place during the Second World War from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944, and which she survived.
The Russian troops, who had eventually driven out the Nazi army, had suffered many casualties.
In #StPetersburg, #Russia, the police detained a well-known survivor of the Siege of Leningrad Yelena Osipova at an anti-war #protest: pic.twitter.com/QFhPrWKcCo
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Arrested sometimes violently
This is not the first time that the Russian septuagenarian has demonstrated and been arrested.
She was on the streets holding signs during the 2013 G20 summit. "I went there with a poster that said: 'Don't believe in the justice of war', and another about nuclear waste.
The police arrested me and it has happened several times since, sometimes even in a violent way”, underlines the artist, in 2015, in The Russian Reader.
In 2020, Yelena Osipova took to the streets on the 34th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
The authorities wouldn't let him.
"The police detained her at the station for three hours, confiscated her paintings and charged her with an administrative offense", reported the same media, in 2022.
The Russian septuagenarian said she regretted that fewer and fewer people took to the streets to demonstrate.
"When people start to live better, they become indifferent," she pointed out.
Wednesday's demonstration was launched by opponent of Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, who in a series of messages published on social networks, called on Russians to demonstrate against the war in Ukraine.
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