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"One side went to the police but got nowhere. That only changed when the charge of 'fake news about the army' appeared," said Anastasia Pilipenko.

Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby are competing in the pairs, while Edward Appleby is in the men's event and Kristen Spours is in the women's.

"We can stick to our basic pro-democracy values and try to keep people safe for the future Russia," Anastasia Burakova argues, and her own "Ark" project tries to do just that.

"We can debate after democracy in Russia begins, but for now we have the same goal and the same enemy: he's in the Kremlin," Anastasia Burakova voices the frustration of many that such scrapping is a dangerous distraction.

But Anastasia Shevchenko struggles to focus on anything else.