It's a fairly liberal situation in this sense. I talk about it only with colleagues that I'm close to.

It's annexed territory, it's introduced its own troops, it's supported terrorist groups on the territory of a neighboring country, and so on,' Lashkevich says. There's one aggressive action that it hasn't taken - it hasn't allowed its territory to be used by a third aggressor. I recently read a definition of aggression that is used at the UN, and of the seven points, there's only one that Russia hasn't violated. 'I oppose the war precisely because it's Russia that's unleashing it, because it's so obviously a war of aggression. He was detained by police in August after standing on a busy Moscow street holding a poster reading 'Why is our country led by a raging idiot?' on one side, and 'It's not your war, but your children are going to die in it!' on the other. Mikhail Lashkevich is a researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the town of Chernogolovka, outside Moscow. RFE/RL's Russian Service spoke to seven of the protesters.

During the past several weeks, a handful of Russians have braved public disapproval and likely arrest to stage solitary protests against Moscow's actions in Ukraine.