What happened on 4 October 2023 in anti-war protests?
A look back at two protest-related developments, in Washington and in a Russian court, and a school announcement in Kharkiv a day earlier.
What did opposition to the war look like on 4 October 2023? Two separate developments, one in the United States and one involving a Russian court, marked the day.
In Washington, around 11 anti-war protesters involved with Code Pink were arrested outside the office of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. The group had called on the Biden administration to bring an end to the war.
The same day, a Russian court sentenced the journalist Marina Ovsyannikova to eight and a half years in prison in absentia. The sentence related to her interrupting a news broadcast with anti-war slogans.
Kharkiv's school plans
A day earlier, on 3 October 2023, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov announced the construction of what he described as Ukraine's first underground school. The aim was to protect students from missile strikes.
Taken together, the reports from those days showed the war's reach well beyond the front line: in protests abroad, in the courts of Russia, and in the planning of a school in a Ukrainian city.
