Yashin: On March 1, the march in Berlin will be held under the slogan "Russia Against Putin."

The march, according to Yashin, will start from Potsdamer Platz, pass by the Russian embassy, and conclude at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the very heart of the city.

The organizers of the march are Russian opposition figures Ilya Yashin, Yulia Navalnaya, and Vladimir Kara-Murza. On November 17, they already held an anti-war march in Berlin, which drew several thousand participants. The attendees chanted "Russia without Putin" and "No to war."

In December, Yashin, Navalnaya, and Kara-Murza called on democratic and anti-war groups of Russians to join in the preparation of a new event in Berlin on March 1, with the main slogan "Putin, stop killing."

As the opposition leaders noted at the time, "in February 2025, we will face three tragic dates" – referring to the tenth anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's assassination, the first anniversary of Alexei Navalny's death, which the opposition considers a murder, as well as the three-year mark since the onset of the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. "Behind all these events stands the figure of Vladimir Putin," the statement said.

Just like after the first march, the organizers of the new event faced criticism, with claims that they focus solely on Putin's personality rather than on the war in Ukraine and the need for solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Yashin, Kara-Murza, and Navalnaya are among the most well-known Russian opposition figures. The first two have been sentenced in Russia to lengthy prison terms for their opposition and anti-war activities and have found themselves in forced exile as a result of a prisoner swap. Yulia Navalnaya is the widow of the opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who died in prison, and she has stated that she will continue his work. The Russian opposition in exile lacks a unified leadership structure, and Yashin, Navalnaya, and Kara-Murza speak on their own behalf.

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