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ELENA was sentenced to five days’ imprisonment for
wearing a green ribbon, a symbol of peace, in her
hair. “I can talk only about this war. Other topics are
pointless to me. To be apolitical now is a crime.”◁ ELENA OSIPOVA, a 77-year-old artist known as the
“conscience of St. Petersburg,” mounted her first
protest in 2002. The day of the Ukraine invasion,
a Moscow reporter phoned her for comment. “I said,
‘The Russian Führer comes to Anschluss.’ ”