Berlin With the Russian partial mobilization at the end of September, Vladimir Putin actually wanted to influence the Russian war in Ukraine in his own way. However, a new study now provides clues: In doing so, he also gave new impetus to the anti-war movement in his own homeland.
The Berlin organization Democracy Reporting International (DRI) examines Russian social media debates since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine. In a new study, DRI, led by Anastasiia Tarasova, analyzes protest behavior on Telegram, Russia’s third-largest social media platform.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced “partial mobilization in the Russian Federation” in a television speech on September 21, seven months after the start of the war, the protest group “Morning Dagestan” had only 1,570 subscribers.
According to a DRI analysis, five days later this number had already increased 80-fold: over 130,000 people suddenly became interested in the protest channel on Telegram.
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