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The leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation published a statement saying that Russia is “moving from political arbitrariness to outright extremism on the part of those in power, and then to political terror.” Quotes from the statement are given by the Kommersant newspaper on April 28. The evidence is a “campaign of intimidation of opposition activists,” “gangster attacks” on leaders, “judicial arbitrariness against opposition politicians, arbitrariness of election commissions during elections against opposition candidates and its observers, as well as pressure on communist deputies.” True, for some reason the communists added acts of “vandalism against Lenin monuments” here. According to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the main target of the intimidation campaign is politically active youth. The communists did not ignore that part of the youth who are used as “shock groups of the party in power” “to disrupt public events of the opposition.” The Communist Party of the Russian Federation notes the “systemic nature” of the government’s actions. United Russia, oddly enough, did not agree with this. The head of the central executive committee of the party, Andrei Vorobyov, told the newspaper that he does not see any trends towards political terrorism. However, he reacted precisely to the controversial point regarding vandalism in relation to the leader’s monuments: they say, hooliganism needs to be fought, but there is no need to look for a political background here.