Crowds in St Petersburg sing about overthrowing Putin

Hundreds of young people gathered in St Petersburg to sing an outlawed song calling for Vladimir Putin to be overthrown.

In a rare moment of public dissent, the crowd joined street musicians in a central square on Tuesday night to shout anti-war lyrics that have been called “extremist” under new Russian censorship laws.

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