on march 8, 2022, international women's day, the feminist anti-war resistance organized the laying of flowers by women — chrysanthemums and tulips tied with blue and yellow ribbons — near the war monuments:"we, the women of russia, refuse to celebrate march 8 this year: do not give us flowers, it is better to take to the streets and lay them in memory of the fallen civilians of ukraine."protests took place in 94 cities in russia and abroad, including st. petersburg, moscow, vladivostok, yekaterinburg, perm, novosibirsk, krasnoyarsk, yaroslavl, syktyvkar, smolensk, izhevsk, volgograd, nizhny novgorod, gelendzhik, kazan, saratov, biysk, khimki, chelyabinsk, krasnodar, novovoronezh, vologda, vladimir, stavropol, arkhangelsk, yoshkar-ola, rostov-on-don, cheboksary, etc.