Prominent Russian opposition figures led a march of at least 1,000 people in central Berlin on Sunday, against President Putin and his war in Ukraine
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00:00Russia's exiled anti-war opposition has so far largely failed to speak with one voice
00:06and present a clear plan of action.
00:08But it was a different scene on Sunday in central Berlin.
00:12Prominent Russian opposition figures led a march of at least a thousand people against
00:16war in Ukraine and calling for democracy in the motherland.
00:21Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, as well as Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Karamurza
00:27were among the protesters.
00:29Their demands were highly optimistic but clear.
00:33Immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, trial of Vladimir Putin as a war
00:38criminal and the release of all political prisoners in Russia.
00:43The unification of the opposition finally happened as a result of a landmark east-west
00:47prisoner swap in August that freed key dissidents and helped to reinvigorate a movement that
00:53was fractured by the death in prison of Navalny.
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