The steam has gone down the whistle….

Shein went to court in vain. I don’t believe in the prospects of canceling the mayoral elections in Astrakhan during the judicial review. The kind of justice we have is well known. The court will make the decision whichever team is sent down.
By going to court and getting involved in watching videos from polling stations, Shein missed the initiative, gave the opportunity to the authorities to establish the “rules of the game,” and therefore missed the chance for change, which not only Oleg, but all of us, undoubtedly had. Now this chance has been lost, the protest intensity has been reduced, the steam has gone to the whistle..... The authorities can take a breath and quietly write off the “Astrakhan aggravation” into the archives.

If in 1991, when the State Emergency Committee made its “historic” decisions, Boris Yeltsin and his comrades would have rushed to seek the reversal of these decisions in the courts, in what country would we live today? And where would Putin be today? Medvedev? All of us? Toto and it!

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