Opinion | Last December, Boris Kagarlitsky, a Marxist sociologist and professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, was fined 600,000 rubles ($6,600) for “justifying terrorism.” During a video on his left-wing YouTube channel Rakbor, Kagarlitsky said that "from a military point of view, the Ukrainians' decision to blow up the Crimean Bridge is understandable."
Their views are popular but government repression and internal strife have stunted the influence of Russia's far right while some fight alongside Kremlin's troops in Donbas others reject the war as fratricide.