Sign this petition to encourage and thank the Russian People risking everything to stand up to Putin.  Their civil disobedience is the answer to standing down Putin's offensive into Ukraine short of WWIII, a complete Ukrainian genocide, or worse.

In fact, the entire point of sanctions against Russia is to foster unrest in their population enough to overcome Putin's internal propaganda campaign and create a groundswell of pressure that forces and emboldens others in the country's leadership with the political will to forcibly remove Putin from power.

As most of us in the international community sit horrified and helpless at Putin's incursion into Ukraine, there is one thing we can do:  show our support for the people of Russia who are also horrified by the actions of their government and are putting themselves at significant personal risk to do something about it.

The most active petition in this Stand with Ukraine Movement gained an astounding 5000 signatures an hour by Russian Citizens creating an anti-war movement from within until Putin pushed legislation to punish protestors with up to 15 years in prison, at which point the growing movement of Russian protestors has had to become more covert.

Please take a moment to read the following English translation of that incredible petition and then sign this petition as a show of encouragement, solidarity, and appreciation for the risks they are taking.  If they can get tossed in the Gulag for standing in the cold chanting "No War", we can take 30 seconds to click a button to thank them and encourage more to rise up.

Translation of Russian Petition Below

On February 22, the Russian armed forces crossed the border and entered the territory of the eastern regions of Ukraine.

On February 24, the first attacks on Ukrainian cities were delivered at night.

All sorts of people in Russia spoke publicly about the categorical rejection of the war, about its fatality for the country. From the intelligentsia to retired colonel generals and experts of the Valdai Forum.

The same emotion sounded in different voices – horror at the very thought of the possibility of a new round of war between Russia and Ukraine. The horror caused by the realization that this could actually happen.

And so it happened. Putin ordered the start of a military operation against Ukraine, despite the terrible price that both Ukraine and Russia will undoubtedly pay for this war, despite all the voices of reason that sounded in Russia and beyond.

Official Russian rhetoric claims that this is done in "self-defense". But history cannot be fooled. The burning of the Reichstag was exposed, and today exposures are not required - everything is obvious from the very beginning.

We, the supporters of peace, acting in the name of saving the lives of the citizens of Russia and Ukraine, in order to stop the war that has begun and prevent it from developing into a war on a planetary scale:

• we announce the beginning of the formation of the anti-war movement in Russia, and the support of any peaceful forms of anti-war protest;
• we demand an immediate ceasefire by the Russian Armed Forces, and their immediate withdrawal from the territory of the sovereign state of Ukraine;
• we consider as war criminals all those who made the decision to start hostilities in the east of Ukraine, sanctioned aggressive and war-justifying propaganda in the Russian media dependent on the authorities. We will seek to hold them accountable for their deeds.

We appeal to all sane people in Russia, on whose actions and words something depends. Become part of the anti-war movement, oppose the war. Do this if only to show the whole world that there were, are and will be people in Russia who will not accept the meanness perpetrated by the authorities, who have turned the very state and peoples of Russia into an instrument of their crimes.

www.change.org/NetVoyne   {a link to the original Russian Petition}

#НетВойне     {Translates: No War}