Two o’clock in the afternoon: I leave the metro station Kitay-gorod. As you come out, nothing tells you that you are in the capital of a country at war.
But after you pass the Moscow Polytechnic Museum, you come across a police cordon that covers all the approaches to the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters on Lubyanka Square. Most of the police officers are wearing ski hats. It’s getting colder in Moscow, and these hats provide not only warmth, but anonymity.
Several protest movements announced anti-war rallies in Moscow on 6 March; the team of opposition figure Alexey Navalny announced a meeting on Manezhnaya Square, just opposite the Kremlin. A coalition of feminists and leftists called a rally at 3pm at another public space, the Square of Three Stations. In parallel, a separate group of protesters went to central Pushkin Square.
