Yegor Shramko’s one-man picket on Palace Sq. in St. Petersburg on 17 October 2025. Screenshot: RusNews
A Russian activist has been detained after staging a one-man picket on Palace Sq. in St. Petersburg, carrying a banner within the colors of the Ukrainian flag studying “No to battle with Ukraine”, unbiased information outlet RusNews reported on Friday.
“This battle is shameful and it by no means ought to have begun. It wants to finish at the moment,” the picketer, Yegor Shramko, told the outlet, including that Russian intransigence was “the one impediment to the cessation of hostilities”.
When requested why he had determined to stage his one-man protest at the moment, Shramko answered that he had been occupied with it for months however had solely now plucked up the braveness to take action.
Shramko protested for about an hour, participating with passersby, with some opposing his motion, and a few expressing help, in line with RusNews. Police in full riot gear had been seen placing Shramko in a police van.
Friday’s picket was not Shramko’s first protest. On 4 June, Shramko was detained for carrying a photograph of slain opposition politician Alexey Navalny to the Solovetsky Stone, a St. Petersburg monument to victims of political repression.
On that event, the court docket detained Shramko for twenty-four hours for displaying “extremist symbols”. Navalny, who was killed in an Arctic penal colony in February 2024, stays on Russia’s checklist of “terrorists and extremists” even after his loss of life, which means his likeness continues to be thought-about extremist.
Safety forces, in the meantime, threatened Shramko in June with enforced enlistment, whereas additionally promising bother at his office in an try at intimidation.
