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Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest

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Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest

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World News@beehaw.org · 7 days ago

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Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest | LBC

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The crowd joined street musicians to sing “Cooperative Swan Lake,” which was outlawed in May 2025 when a St. Petersburg court labeled it “extremist.”

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