On Saturday, an elderly woman was arrested by police in Nizhny Novgorod after she protested by holding up a blank sign.
Protesters have since used blank pieces of paper at rallies to point out the absurd and extreme crackdown in Russia.
People in Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov and Moscow were all spotted today holding up blank signs as nervous police officers detain anyone who is suspected of protesting.
Matthew Luxmoore, a Moscow-based journalist for the Wall Street Journal, tweeted a thread of protests taking place in Russia: “They may be out of the headlines but Russia-wide protests against the war haven’t stopped.
“Neither have the arrests. This is Yekaterinburg today – peaceful rallies already happening in multiple Siberian cities, and soon beginning in Moscow and St Petersburg.