Vesna (Russia)

As was approved at the founding meeting, the movement will not officially have a single leader - instead, the governing and program functions will be carried out by the Federal Coordinating Council, consisting of five people.

Movement participant Alexander Gudimov held a relay race with a home-made torch - a design made from a saw and improvised materials.

[11] In February 2014, Vesna activists went to the Ukrainian consulate in Saint Petersburg and the monument to Taras Shevchenko to express support for the "fraternal people".

[8] In June 2015, activists of the movement installed a new "headstone" on the Field of Mars near the burial places of the victims of the revolutions and the civil war, the inscription on which reads: "An unknown soldier died in the Donbass in "peaceful" time.

[14] In 2017, the movement supported the protests against corruption by the Prime Minister and ex-President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, which took place after the release of the film "He Is Not Dimon to You".

[20] Also in 2017, the movement organized the "Territory of Freedom" summer democratic camp[21] and an action in support of Ruslan Sokolovsky, in which young men dressed as a priest and an FSB officer tried to catch the Pikachu Pokémon using pink butterfly nets.

[22] In March 2019, police officers detained Navalny Headquarters employee and Mikhail Borisov, an activist of the Vesna movement.

[34] In response, according to Vesna, the organizers of the Immortal Regiment in the regions began to send instructions to counter the transformation of the procession into a political action against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[35] With the beginning of mobilization in Russia, the Vesna movement began to organize all-Russian rallies under the slogan "No to mogilization (grave-isation)".

On 8 May, the homes of Vesna activists in St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Zateev, Valentin Khoroshenin,[38] and Roman Maksimov, a former member of the movement in Veliky Novgorod, were searched, after which they were detained and brought to Moscow for interrogation.

Also, searches were carried out at the parents of the Viasna coordinator Bogdan Litvin,[38] who left the country, activist Polina Barabash, former members of the movement in St. Petersburg Alexei Bezrukov and Artyom Uymanen.

The defendants in the case are accused of "disagreeing with the political decisions of the country's leadership, including the decision to conduct a special military operation, they led a non-profit organization whose activities are associated with inciting citizens to commit unlawful acts"[41] In May, supporters of Vesna created a petition in support of the defendants in the case; at the beginning of June 2022, about 6,500 people signed it.

[42] In February 2013, when the movement was announced, Alexander Kobrinsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg from the Yabloko party, criticized it.