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FOM surveys should be taken with a grain of salt, but Zavadskaya says an increase like this in high summer indicates that "something is not going according to plan." She gives the increase in drone attacks, deaths, fires in warehouses and rumors of a fresh mobilization as the reasons, and comments that the summer of 2026 has been the most unsettling for the people in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the end of the nine-hour court session, security services threatened the people gathered outside the courthouse with arrest, also warning young men that they could be taken to an army enlistment office. "You are mistaken if you believe that, with a stroke of a pen, you can write off millions of people who want peace, freedom and a normal future for their country," Nikolai Rybakov, the leader of Yabloko, wrote on Telegram that evening.
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