{"id":130879,"date":"2021-02-14T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=130879"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:58:13","slug":"russians-hold-flashlight-protests-in-support-of-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russians-hold-flashlight-protests-in-support-of-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians hold \u2018flashlight protests\u2019 in support of Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussians-hold-flashlight-protests-in-support-of-navalny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=130879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2372113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2372113\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2372113\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21045677340330-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"People draw hearts with their cellphones flashlights in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. When the team of jailed Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced a protest in a new format, urging people to come out to their residential courtyards on Sunday and shine their cellphone flashlights, many responded with jokes and skepticism. After two weekends of nationwide demonstrations, the new protest format looked to some like a retreat. But not to Russian authorities, who moved vigorously to extinguish the illuminated protests planned for Sunday. (AP Photo\/Pavel Golovkin)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2372113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People drew hearts with their cellphone flashlights in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo\/Pavel Golovkin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:00 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, February 14, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Russian opposition are changing the tactic of anti-government protests with a nationwide \u201cflashlight demonstration.\u201d On Sunday, thousands of Russians took to the streets with flashlights in a show of defiance against the latest round of political repressions.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters formed heart signs with candles and flashlights to show that \u201clove overcomes fear\u201d on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Love is stronger than fear&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flashlight protests in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/navalny?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@navalny<\/a><br \/>February 14th, 2021, Russia<br \/>St Valentine Day\ud83c\udf39\u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udd26\ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jdZaiE6GHx\">pic.twitter.com\/jdZaiE6GHx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Khodorkovsky Center (@mbk_center) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbk_center\/status\/1360968363053301761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Opposition leader Alexei Navalny has remained in detention as he faces imprisonment for revealing massive corruption of the Putin regime.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the Kremlin is failing to contain the protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can no longer ignore a person who has become a nationwide political figure, even though, of course, he\u2019s barred,\u201d Moscow political analyst Maria Lipman stated. \u201cHe has been barred from taking part in political process and now he\u2019s behind bars. Still, he was able to enlarge the awareness of him among the Russian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Putin regime tried to outlaw the flashlight protest, but ongoing demonstrations have shown the latest failure of its repressive machine.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/cdc-director-speaks-out-on-reopening-schools\/\">CDC Director Speaks Out On Reopening Schools<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893433,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4920,4890,3970,6727,3723],"class_list":["post-130879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-hold","tag-navalny","tag-protests","tag-russians","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}