For more than two years, Russia has been waging a war in Ukraine dubbed by President Vladimir Putin as a “special operation.” Meanwhile, internally, dissidents are systematically persecuted and detained; Opposition members are in jail, have fled abroad or died. Despite this, people, like Ekaterina Duntsova, dare to oppose Putin's policies.
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The Russian Ekaterina Duntsova, 40, is the woman who tried to challenge Vladimir Putin in the 2024 presidential elections, in which the president was finally re-elected.
After her frustrated candidacy, since the Central Electoral Commission did not allow her to register alleging that there were errors in her documentation, the former local representative, lawyer and journalist seeks to promote, cautiously and secretly, her movement through the founding of a political party , Amanecer, who, in his words, defends peace, freedom of expression and the release of imprisoned opponents.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke out more than two years ago, Duntsova has advocated ending the violence, freeing political prisoners and expressing her desire for Russia to be a democratic, prosperous and peaceful state. That forceful stance against the war has encouraged many to support it.
“Fear is always present. It is the instinct of self-preservation,” said the politician, who admitted that in Russia it is “very dangerous to speak.”
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