M.entre the war in Ukraine is raging with more and more violence and, unfortunately, does not spare the fleeing population – there are no counting the images of families mowed down by mortars and grenades – in Russia those who protest and show dissent risks up to 15 years in prison. The Soviet police came to arrest 3,500 people in a single dayand the number of those arrested since the beginning of the conflict stands at about 11 thousand units.
Dissent, however, it also begins to manifest itself in families that have always been considered to be pro-Putinian: several daughters of oligarchs – who are seeing their assets dwindle more and more due to the sanctions to their taxes – they began to not to show oneself more favorable to the leader of the country.
Some comments appeared on social networks – maybe quickly deleted – or stances, albeit often still “timid”, they open a crack of lucidity even in the clans of Putin’s “most loyal” ones.
The daughters of the oligarchs against the war
Let’s start from Sofia Abramovichdaughter of Roman Abramovich, among the richest men in the world. The 27-year-old changed the post “Russia wants war with Ukraine” to “Putin wants war against Ukraine“, Also writing that“ the biggest and most successful Kremlin propaganda lie is that most Russians are on Putin’s side “.
Sofia Abramovich from Instagram
And his father also seems to have become aware of the situation: he announced that will sell Chelsea and will donate the proceeds to victims of the war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin and Roman Abramovich in an archive photo. (IPA)
Elizaveta Peskova he lives with his mother Katerina Solonitsyna in an extra luxury house in Paris, overlooking the Arc de Triomphe. The girl, daughter of Dmitry Peskov, one of Putin’s closest advisors, he had published a series of stories on Instagram where he expressed his dissent against the war (he had added the hashtag #notothewar).
Elizaveta Peskova. (IPA)
Shortly after, however, the stories have been removed and his account went private. There censorship – from a distance – hit her too.
Boris Yeltsin’s niece is also against Putin
Maria Yumasheva she is the granddaughter of the former Russian president Boris Yeltsin (from 1991 to 1999) and is the daughter of the businessman Valentin Yumashev, current Kremlin adviser.
Maria Yumasheva with her father. (IPA)
The girl, 19, posted a photo of the Ukrainian flag and the inscription «no to war», With the emoticon of a broken heart.
Not only: he also supported the pacifist demonstrators parading with them. His companion, Fedor Smolov – the first Russian national team player to speak out against the invasion – posted a totally black box on Instagram, with a broken heart and the Ukrainian flag (under)
The daughter of Putin’s mentor
Ksenia Sobchak is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchiak, first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg. He is known to have been the political mentor of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. On her Instagram she admitted she was scared and appealed to Putin to stop the war.
The caption to the letter she had written as a child and addressed to Reagan, posted on Instagram, reads: “The most important thing now is that today’s talks put an end to this nightmare. The world is on the verge of disasterAddressing Putin directly and calling him by name, “Vladimir”.
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