So-called “president putin” announced war with Ukraine in the name of denazification and “Z” was a mark for one of his intervention groups. But after the start of the war began an extensive campaign for its support inside russia and “Z” became it’s symbol. “Z” Letter was used in various ways to promote the war:
- Russian army and its soldiers were wearing this sign while committing war crimes.
- Russian media used the symbol while talking about “cleaning up” all the Ukraine and burning its cities and people for using a different language and not responding to russian cultural attacks as expected.
Now you can find here many different examples of these Z and V used in propaganda of russian nazi effort.
With a very rough projection, we can count at least 110 000 posts with the hashtag “zамир” on Instagram and much more on VK. More than 2000 communities in VK (analog of groups in Facebook) have “Z” in their title. Assuming all this, at least 2 million people in russia took part in this action. With a turnout of 50%, this may equal 4% of voters in the next federal election.
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Celebrities supported ruzzian invasion
Iurii Lisovskyi is Deputy Chief of Party in the Domestic Oversight of Political Processes in Ukraine Project, supported by USAID. He also is the coordinator of elections observers network at Civil Network OPORA, since 2009.
Each elections he coordinates work of 200 long-term and at least 1500 Election Day observers and organizes Parallel Vote Tabulation (process of quick counting of official results with a small margin of error) . Also he is responsible for data gathering, cleaning and analysis in other OPORA projects and ICT security.
Works upon open data based tools which help activists to monitor Parliament and observe election. Among others co-organized Personal Democracy Forum Ukraine in 2016 and co-founded “They Vote for You” Ukraine version (https://rada4you.org).
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