MOSCOW — In ordinary times, not being able to influence your country’s politics can feel frustrating.
When that country is on the brink of war, it can feel like torture.
“It is utterly horrible to find yourself helpless, a person on whom nothing depends,” said Andrei Makarevich, a veteran Russian rock star.
His is one of the scores of names under an open letter titled, “If only there is no war,” published online in late January.
Many of the more than 150 signatories are well-known in Russian intelligentsia circles: leading activists, artists and intellectuals who in recent years have formed a small but vocal minority against the Kremlin’s increasingly repressive
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