Ukraine Invasion, Week 2 + more
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Ukraine Invasion, Week 2 + more
Ukraine Invasion, Week 2 + more — on this edition of the discursus Protest Analytics newsletter, March 8, 2022
Welcome to the 3rd edition of the discursus Protest Analytics newsletter.
There’s no way around it, we are still covering the protest events that surrounds Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Where last week we saw spontaneous mobilisations in Russia, Belarus and other countries, we see this week that protests in Russia are being met with increased repression by the government.
Again, we wish a quick and peaceful resolution to this unprovoked aggression. To our Ukrainian friends (as well as Russian and Belarusian protesters), stay safe!
Olivier
olivier@discursus.io
Weekly Dashboard
Here’s an overview of the protests that happened in the past 7 days. Please visit the interactive version of that dashboard on Tableau Public.
Feature Protest — Ukraine Invasion, Week 2
Like last week, we want to first share some analytics around the protest data we gathered since March 1st, 2022. Follows a selection of the most important (in my opinion) developments that happened throughout the week.
Analytics
Here first is the number of articles that were sourced since March 1st, 2022…
This is a map of the events that were covered by the above articles…
Those are the actors in conflict…
Those are the actor types in conflict…
Developments
Alexey Navalny called on people in Russia and Belarus to protest the war — From Alexey Navalny on Twitter
“Dozens of anti-war demonstrators were detained in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Wednesday after jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called on Russians to protest President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Police in Putin’s hometown of Saint Petersburg violently dispersed protesters and detained around 100 people, an AFP journalist at the scene said.” — From AFP
“The Russian Federation Council is set to hold an unscheduled meeting on Friday, leading to widespread speculation in Moscow that the country might impose martial law.” (Note: As of March 7, 2022, no martial law has been declared.) — From The Guardian
“Huge Demonstrations for Ukraine Take Place in Several European Cities” — From Newsweek
“Thousands gather worldwide to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” — From Euro News
“Anti-war activists in Russia targeted by police and beaten with batons — as 1,700 are arrested” — From The Daily Mail
Elsewhere around the world
🦠 “Thick black smoke billowed across the grounds of New Zealand’s Parliament and sirens blared on Wednesday as retreating protesters set fire to tents, mattresses and chairs. It appeared to be a final act of defiance as police broke up the camp that protesters first set up more than three weeks ago.” — From NPR
🏳️🌈 “Dozens of high school and college students rallied at the Torch of Friendship in Miami before boarding a bus to Tallahassee to protest against what many opponents have termed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.” — From NBC
🇺🇸 “Truckers protesting virus mandates are encircling Washington, D.C., on the Beltway.” — From The New York Times
🙋♀️ “As Women’s Marches Gain Steam in Pakistan, Conservatives Grow Alarmed” — From The New York Times
Updates from the discursus project
We’re working on a discursus core roadmap for the upcoming quarter and so far it looks like those are going to be the main goals for the next 2 releases.
In version 0.0.4, we’ll look to improve the process to spin up new instances of discursus core. We want users to easily fork that repo, set up the services and get a running instance easily.
In version 0.0.5, we’ll come up with a semantic layer for discursus. Our definition of a semantic layer is the skeleton of a phenomenon/ domain you want to provide an abstraction for. It has entities and relationships, and those have attributes that change in time. For this version, we want to map out what is going to be the full semantic layer of that project, and have that codified using the help of Droughty.
We’re super excited about that roadmap and hopefully those goals resonate with you as well. If you want to help out, please reach out to me directly.