On May 8 and 9, a traveling exhibition, "Faces of the Russian Resistance," was held in the center of Leipzig.

Leipzig became the 20th European city where the exhibition was presented. The installations show large-format photographs of famous and not so famous political prisoners in Russia behind symbolic bars of construction fences. In this way, the authors want to make it clear to the European population that many people in Russia are openly rebelling against the bloody Putin regime and its criminal war.

At the official opening of the exhibition, German MEP Sergei Lagodinsky called on those present to continue to maintain their commitment to the "beautiful Russia of the future."

In her speech, Russian opposition politician Anastasia Bryukhanova stressed the importance of countering state propaganda with independent and reliable information. Politicians Yuri Volnov and Konstantin Kosov, who, like Bryukhanova, are being persecuted in Russia for their campaign against the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, shared with the audience their motives for participating in political life and their unfulfilled hopes for a change in Russian politics at the grassroots level. In conclusion, Elena Filina, the author of the exhibition, called on all Russians who have found themselves safe not to remain silent about the crimes of the Russian state and to support political prisoners. She also thanked the team of the Leipzig civic initiative "For a Free Russia and Belarus", which collected donations for the rental and transportation of structures, and took on the registration, construction and monitoring of the exhibition.