Show their support for her, to applaud for her. given the threat to them. for being seen, to support someone who said something true about putin s war. credit to the wall street journal reporters in russia for their reporting on that. and credit to amnesty international for staying on the case of this one woman who is looking at a decade or potentially 15 years in prison. again, for putting true information next to a price tag. in a russian supermarket. because what else can you do? one is going to stop putin from grinding away at ukraine in this war for more days, more weeks, maybe more months? what s going to stop him from killing thousands more, tens of thousands more civilians? we don t know. but we do know that some russians are trying. it is illegal for them to speak against the war, it s illegal for the russian media team described it as a war. but russians are still trying
Russia invaded its neighbor. they actually shut all their stores in ukraine, but they kept their stores open in russia. they even announced plans to expand their operations in russia, given that everyone else was pulling out. leroy marlins omen ploy ease were reportedly horrified by this decision and protested to the company. but now, as part of the protests about how this company has behaved, leroy merlin stores are being transformed, one by one, into little well harbored surprises for shoppers. about how to think of that business and what they sell. for killing, corpse thin, for sweeping away your guilt. this is just in the last few days. last week, we learned about this effort and pull. and it got picked up in the wall street journal and elsewhere. but now, in a much more risk environment to do something like this. we re also seeing russians do it as well. russian citizens inside russia, where putin has made a criminal offense to criticize this war, look what they re doing now.
And then in smaller print there is says leroy merlin supports the russian invasion. the same store, here s the display of hamas for that store. and actually, in this one, you can see sort of a normal life versus what s has changed on the hammer in the right and polish that is the original tag it s as carpentry which makes sense, which is the hammer, but that one has been switched out and it says for killing. in the small print just there with the price, just above the price 51 99, it says leroy merlin supports genocide in ukraine. it says that same thing here on this, i think this is a table sought from that same store. you see the tag there underneath the shelf, it says the roiling supports genocide in ukraine. we have perfectly matched to the font and size of the normal signage in the store, but it is just posted there like a normal thing.
Actually in this one you can see sort of normal life versus what s changed. the tag on the hammer on the right, in polish, that s the original tag it s carpentry, which makes sense because the hammer. the tag on the left, that one has been switched out and says, for killing. and then in the small print, just there with the price, just there above the price, $51.99. leroy merlin support genocide in ukraine. it says that same thing here on this, i think this is a table saw on that same store. you see the tag they re kind of underneath the shelf. it s his leroy maduro and support genocide in ukraine. sort of perfectly matched to the font and the size of the normal signage in the store. but it s posted there like it s a normal thing. god forbid you wanted to buy a trash can in that same store. here it is marked at $21.50, this one has been re-labeled what this doesn t polish is,
Else was pulling out. leroy marlins omen ploy ease were reportedly horrified by this decision and protested to the company. but now, as part of the protests about how this company has behaved, leroy merlin stores are being transformed, one by one, into little well harbored surprises for shoppers. about how to think of that business and what they sell. for killing, corpse thin, for sweeping away your guilt. this is just in the last few days. last week, we learned about this effort and pull. and it got picked up in the wall street journal and elsewhere. but now, in a much more risk environment to do something like this. we re also seeing russians do it as well. russian citizens inside russia, where putin has made a criminal offense to criticize this war, look what they re doing now. this is inside a russian grocery store. you can see on the shelf there, that s instant coffee on the top shelf there, 400 rubles means it s about five bucks a