2014 anti-war protests in Russia

2014 anti-war protests in Russia
2014 anti-war protests in Russia
Part of the 2014 Crimean crisis; and Russian opposition protest rallies
	At least 30,000 people with Russian and Ukrainian flags, flags of political parties and peace symbols
Date	2 & 15 March, 21 September 2014
Location	Moscow & Saint Petersburg, Russia
Caused by	Opposition to the Russo-Ukrainian War; Opposition to the authority of Vladimir Putin; Opposition to the pro-government demonstrations; Solidarity with the Euromaidan protesters;
Goals	Military withdrawal of Russia from Ukraine;
Methods	Demonstrations; Internet activism;
Parties
Russian opposition Solidarnost; Yabloko; Civic Platform; RPR-PARNAS; 5th of December Party; Progress Party; Democratic Choice; Right Cause; Autonomous Action; Russian Socialist Movement; Alliance of Greens and Social Democrats; Anti-war activists; Anti-censorship activists[citation needed];	Government of Russia MVD Police of Russia; Russian Internal Troops; OMON; ; Political parties United Russia; Communist Party; A Just Russia; Liberal Democratic Party; Essence of Time; Civic Platform; ;
Lead figures
	Boris Nemtsov; Alexei Navalny; Ilya Yashin; Andrey Makarevich; Vladimir Milov; Irina Prokhorova; Gennady Gudkov; Dmitry Gudkov; Valeriya Novodvorskaya; Konstantin Borovoi Vladimir Putin; Dmitry Medvedev; Sergey Kurginyan; Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Number
Ministry of Defence, 2 March: 130; Manezhnaya Square, 2 March: 230; Moscow, 15 March: 30,000 (Reuters), 100,000 (Russian opposition), 3,000 (Moscow police);

The 2014 anti-war protests in Russia refers to a series of anti-war demonstrations opposing the Russian military intervention in Ukraine that took place in Russia in 2014. Protesters held two anti-war protest rallies on 2 and 15 March 2014. The latter, known as the March of Peace (Russian: Марш Мира, Marsh Mira), took place in Moscow a day before the Crimean referendum. The protests have been the largest in Russia since the 2011–2013 Russian protests by the Russian opposition against the alleged electoral fraud committed by United Russia during the 2011 Russian legislative election. Reuters reported that around 20,000 people participated in the 15 March demonstrations.^[5]^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference Ukraine crisis: Thousands march in Moscow anti-war rally was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Russia Update: Paid Protesters, Ultranationalist Groups, State Workers March Against Maidan Archived 26 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Interpreter (Institute of Modern Russia), February 21, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Dozens Detained at Anti-War Rallies". Moscow Times. 3 March 2014. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Ukraine crisis triggers Russia's biggest anti-Putin protest in two years". Reuters. 15 March 2014. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
^ "Anti-war protesters march through Moscow". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.