On the first day of #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, protests broke out across the world. Weeks later, thousands of people continue taking to the streets to demand Russian troops leave Ukrainian territory and stop the #war. Many of them use a symbol that began appearing alongside traditional Ukrainian flags in late February: the white-blue-white flag, whose advocates say Russia’s traditional tricolor flag is tied to bloodshed. #Meduza tells the story of this flag’s creation — and what its future might hold.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/16/a-new-symbol-of-russia-s-anti-war-movement #europe #protest #democracy