Diviners - 2018

The International Office of Agora presented the report “Russian revelations - 2018”, dedicated to the Russians who decided to publicize violations of the authorities

“The new report used the monitoring results after November 2017, when the first report was released , as well as the results of the work on protecting the exposure,” said the author of the study, lawyer Alexander Popkov. - During this time, we revealed 48 such situations. We also highlighted the consequences that only now for the heroes of last year's list. So, immediately two of them - the former Voronezh district romance of Khabarov and the head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun - were behind bars. "

The report notes that the authorities “are much more interested in suppressing any leaks of sensitive information than in the protection of citizens who allow such“ plums ”.

Most often, residents of the central and southern federal districts come up with exposures, and a significant share belongs to Moscow and the Krasnodar Territory. Dissatisfaction in the Far East, the North Caucasus and especially in the North-Western Federal District of Russia is not so noticeable.

Half of all revelations are made in the areas of education, medicine and police. Recently, teachers have recently raised their vote more often than the rest: low salaries, difficult working conditions, poor material support in educational institutions and a sense of their own powerlessness, not prone to the publicity of teachers to declare problems in public, the report is noted. In the summer of 2018, police officers sent to the cities where the matches of the World Cup were held, complained about living conditions, poor food, hard mode of work and lack of a good rest.

“The worsening conditions of life, the pressure of the authorities, as well as the corruption manifestations that penetrate all spheres, increasingly force people in despair to splash out departmental flaws and abuses,” the human rights activists conclude. There are more and more exposures, they act brighter and more acute, for example, conducting pickets and hunger strikes; more united - uniting into groups; More professional - the quality of journalistic investigations has increased significantly.

Half applicants is a template form of leadership response. Departments and corporations exert more and more rigid pressure on the disloyal. Pursuit can take years, and truth-fighters can achieve justice or at least restore status quo very rarely, the report says.

You can get acquainted with the full text of the report “Russian revelations - 2018” here .