People are turning off’

[David Morris]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/30/people-are-turning-off-muscovites-put-the-war-aside-and-enjoy-summer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘People are turning off’: Muscovites put the war aside and enjoy summer

s Russia’s war in Ukraine <https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine> grinds
into its fifth month, Moscow is a city doing everything it can to turn a
blind eye to the conflict.
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“ It is not really [because of the law], there is just no desire to talk
about this,” she said. “People are turning off.”
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Many have found it easier to join the “mainstream” of support or
indifference to the war, they added, calling it the “most comfortable”
position, and one that doesn’t force people to “observe or, most
importantly, think”.