Putin critic Navalny urges Russians 'to take to the streets and fight for peace'

Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, further condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine via Twitter thread on Wednesday, even going so far as to call for Russians across the global community to stage daily protests of the conflict.

"I am from the USSR myself. I was born there. And the main phrase from there - from my childhood - was 'fight for peace,'" Navalny wrote. "I call on everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace."

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Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.