But in St Petersburg, 78-year-old Yelena Osipova is already well known for her one-woman acts of defiance against the Putin regime.
The elderly artist, a survivor of the Nazi siege of Leningrad in 1941, was holding placards calling for soldiers to lay down their arms.
Video footage showed her being taken away by riot police in Putin's home city.
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