Speaking out against Vladimir Putin as a Russian is a dangerous proposition.
Thousands of protestors of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine have been detained across the country, some of them dragged to vans by police in riot gear. Long before the war, dozens of journalists were brutally beaten or killed across the course of years.
So when Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova spoke out against the "political motives" of the invasion on Monday, she did so with considerably more consequence than your average social media rebuke.