On the sixth day of the war in Ukraine, there have been more than 6,000 arrests at anti-war protests across Russia. However, Gudkov also notedthat Russia is struggling with high inflation due to the mounting cost of war. He said recent surveys showthat Russians consider rising prices, especially for food and medicine, as their biggest problem. To them, inflation is a more pressing issue than the war, even though most Russians do not see a link between military spending and its impact on everyday life.
