Photo courtesy of: Anna Kucherova / shutterstock.com A Survey of Russian Grassroots Anti-War Resistance By Yury Terekhov Many people throughout the world wonder if there is The State of the Russian Civil Society a lack of civil society within Russia, particularly after the February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine. [...] the structure, motivation of participants, areas of activity, accomplishments, and challenges The most active, visible, and numerous these organizations face, based on surveys and organizations are those within the Russian protest interviews. [...] The Warsaw-based organization Civic has been welcoming and assisting Ukrainian Council28 recruited at least several dozen Russians refugees at the Polish-Ukrainian border in Przemyśl into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and I personally since the beginning of the full-scale war. [...] The existence of the Russian there is a vast network of volunteers within Russia Volunteer Corps,29 the Freedom of Russia Legion,30 itself, who host and arrange for the evacuation of and the Siberian Battalion,31 comprised of Russian Ukrainians, including children,18 forcibly displaced citizens fighting on the Ukrainian side, is no longer from Russia-occupied territories, to Europe. [...] Second, even though activists want to continue Opinions expressed in Wilson Center publications and events fighting, access to grants and funding is challenging are those of the authors and speakers and do not represent the because they frequently lack the means, skills, views of the Wilson Center.
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