so i think there will be real disappointed here in rascal, that they will not be able to foster more allies on the world stage. it was a bit surprising as well, after the invasion of ukraine, in which russians took to the streets in some cases and faced harass, and were arrested as a result of protesting. where is the situation? people here understand the risks. if you go out and you protest against vladimir putin, especially if you do it during wartime, and yet for two nights in aurora ordinary russians have done the just that. the protests thursday night were much larger. we saw about 1700 arrests. last friday night, they were somewhat smarter. about 500 arrests. mainly concentrated in last night. one person said piece for ukraine, and freedom for us.
this developing in moscow. where does that stand? yeah, hallie, we re seeing a crackdown on the streets and a crackdown online. on the streets, russian anti-war protesters are back out tonight in st. petersburg, despite that enormous wave of arrests last night. 1700 people arrested across 50 cities. one placard up in st. petersburg said peace for ukraine, freedom for us. now online, the russian prosecutor general has announced just in the last couple of hours they are planning to impose some form of censorship on facebook in this country. we just took a look at the nbc news in moscow. facebook is still online but we re still expecting various critical of the government media sites may find they are being censored. a lot of russians aren t on facebook, they are on an equivalent. this is coming as vladimir putin