If you need to murder thousands of people to legitimate your regime, your regime ain't legitimate.
For a comparison Iran reported "200 killed" in the Mahsa Amini protests.
russian allies (or at least enemies of their enemies) are falling one by one... moscow must be very happy as their area of projection shrinks day by day
One of the biggest German news portals report up to 12.000
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-p...