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Mass protests after the Duma elections were the result of President Dmitry Medvedev’s refusal to go for a second term, as well as his activities as the president as a whole. The head of Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko said this in the online interview. “In recent years, a lot has been talked about freedom and little has been done. In fact, with the decision of Medvedev, these people did not realize that they no longer had a leader they counted on,” said Yakemenko. He called the rallies "the most striking event of December."

According to him, protests could be avoided in the event that “if Medvedev’s proposals to modernize the political system were implemented earlier”, but Medvedev’s obligations were not fulfilled. "They expected the company and the state to live under a contract, fulfilling their obligations. They believed that if the words about freedom were heard, if these words are personified, then at some point they would receive what they promised. As in the supermarket, you will have 200 grams, you will receive 200 grams. In a situation with the elections, from their point of view, there was a body kit, and the store director, instead of an apology, went, instead of making an apology. Home, ”said Yakemenko.

Yakemenko does not see the real threat of a coup, unlike 2007, "when from two and a half to five and a half thousand people a marsh of disagreements walked along Peter." "Both 50 and 100 thousand people, without deciding on radical actions, are unlikely to do anything in the current conditions. The question of how far people are ready to go, how much they associate the ideas about the best future with those leaders who today lead this protest. From my point of view, with those leaders of the opposition, who are now, we are still very far from attempts to turn the revolution," said Yakemenko.

At the same time, according to Yakemenko, Putin will have to hear people from Bolotnaya Square, and he will be able to do this, despite the first reaction expressed during the “direct line”. “Vladimir Vladimirovich’s situation is not easy here. These people cannot be ignored. Not because they go out on the streets. But because these are quite creative, energetic and noisy. You can’t ignore them. Putin is an intelligent person,” Yakemenko said.

In October 2011, Vasily Yakemenko assigned students a mission to prevent a repetition of the Middle Eastern Scenario in Russia. Yakemenko’s department announced a set of youth "to form public opinion on the Internet." “The main role in these revolutions was played by Internet and social networks, through which the opposition transmitted information about protests and distributed calls to overthrow the construction,” Yakemenko said at one of the meetings with youth. The Russian authorities, according to him, do not approve of coups data and "previous actions on the Internet." The former leader of "ours" presented in the hall of young people called the "conscience of the nation on the Internet."