During external hostilities, it is, in my opinion, very imprudent to organize internal hostilities. The overthrow of such a strong regime by an armed uprising will lead to the emergence of a new military regime, only madmen can overthrow their madman and then hold on to power.
Peaceful protests will be crushed without clear leadership, and there is none now.

We have articles that criminalize distribution and calls for protests on the Internet, equipment is confiscated and heavy fines are issued, the majority of the civilian population does not have the opportunity to hire a lawyer, and our volunteer organizations cannot cover all detention points.

Now we have the articles you mentioned. For anti-war protests, a person runs the risk of losing 15 years of freedom, the prospects are not very bright, because. the probability of overthrowing the regime is extremely small.

Therefore (in my personal opinion) the best option, unfortunately, remains to support Ukraine from afar, as far as possible. Something absolutely out of the ordinary must happen for literally the whole of Russia to come out to protest, because. even sanctions are unlikely to provoke disorderly people; on the contrary, they are more likely to suppress them, because. people have nothing to live on and eat, instead of protests, people are forced to think about how to feed themselves right now. And because of this, someone takes to flight and leaves.
USA thinks it is stifling war sponsorship (which is partly true), but at the same time it is stifling any anti-war movement because in fact, at least some free people had all their means from working outside our state.

I would like to add that most of us do what is in their power, as far as they are not afraid, in order to achieve something. And even more so, any adequate person will never want war, wars are unleashed by damn politicians. Unfortunately, we are cowardly, not all of us, but most of us. Even I am cowardly. Therefore, I try to help informationally in other places. And now I am rather focused on helping my loved ones, my friends and acquaintances.

Dude... these are protests. Unlike USA where armed idiots went to assault democracy because they lost this is about regaining democracy in a place where votes are literally trashed.

Of course, the situation we have sucks and the further we go, the more we will look like a Beholder (game). :') Maybe someday I'll get bolder and come out to protest.

right now all the protests are getting is batons to the heads and getting arrested, but i truly hope pressure from all sides gets some results.

If anything because it was clear for some decades that Putin is just a puppet so maybe the people moving him decide to change puppet?

At this point i have no clue if that could be better or worse. For all i know they could pull out Medvedev again.

He is about the same (he and Putin are friends from school, as far as I remember). There, in general, the entire top of the politicians, one might say, from one "clan". So changing the puppet will just change the puppet. For good, the entire political apparatus should be updated, but it will be even more difficult to do this than to change the president. All our politicians are as old as mammoths, they will never die out. :')

yeh. 😓