New solidarity

The security forces created a fictitious extremist group, but received a real protest rally

UPDATE
Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow released Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik under house arrest. See photos from the court.

“Mother march” in Moscow has become a unique and very disturbing phenomenon for the authorities. There were several hundred people in the capital, including numerous public opinion leaders who were not afraid of either heavy rain, or threats from the security forces or provocateurs, and went outside for the sake of saving strangers from a clearly unfair accusation. This gesture of civil solidarity was made almost without the support of the media or some public organizations.

Just because looking at Anna Pavlikov in the cage is unbearable, and in the process of "new greatness" there is an open, cynical evil.

Once, in another political era, in Moscow there were already a “control walk” of writers along the Boulevard Ring and a procession against the “Law of the Plotsy”, but “Mother Mars” is still a separate phenomenon. It took place in Russia in 2018, where “unauthorized shares” are prohibited, and participation in them threatens criminal terms. People came to him, many of whom were not seen before in the interest in street activism. He certainly did not have any “curator”, and most importantly - he arose on a very specific reason, as a reaction to the glaring meanness of the prosecution in one criminal case.

At the same time, the gender accent brought the “Mother’s March” with European street policies, for example, with the “Black Monday” in Warsaw, during which thousands of women with black umbrellas went out into the streets of the Polish capital to protest against the law on criminalization of abortion. The organizers of marches emphasized his “non -political character”, but understood by this rather the lack of political slogans and a particular political organization that could appropriate a march for themselves. In fact, in any textbook on political science it is said: what happened during the "Mother Marsh" is called political consolidation.

This is when the opposition to the actions of the authorities develops on top of all private political ideologies on the only basis: this can no longer continue.

For modern Russia, the “Mother Market” is a new type of social mobilization, the expansion of which, turning into normal, will mean that society is not afraid of, no matter what. If the thesis that “the Russians are not abandoned,” and has some sense, then it concerns the “Mother’s Mother” in support of Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik.

Obviously, the authorities were in complete confusion on this score. They plant some random teenagers without connections and money, and does someone outraged this? It is incomprehensible. In the logic of an average Russian official and security forces, this state of affairs makes us look for the customer. "Who paid?" - The people in uniform should have consulted on duty, faced with the resistance of society.

This is a huge weakness of the current bureaucratic apparatus. People involved in his work do not have the experience of solidarity or empathy and do not understand how for the sake of such abstract things you can risk their own health. It is often said that bureaucracy in Russia is completely opaque for ordinary people, but the opposite is true:

Citizens capable of "Mother's Mother" look like aliens for the authorities.

The authorities in different offices obscure walks in the center of Moscow clearly bothered. Therefore, on the eve, it was decided to use all the well -known methods in order to demotivate and disrupt the “mothers march”. Gingerbread was thrown through the lawyer Pavlikova: they say that the investigation itself suddenly decided to change the measure of restraint for house arrest, and it remains only to wait for the emergency court session.

Most likely, this meant that, so to speak, intensive consultations. At the same time, it is clear to everyone that the investigator, who changed his opinion on arrest so swiftly that he even got out of vacation for this, could, with his own decision, release Pavlikov and Dubovik for a recognizance not to leave, without arranging a farce with the court. And in the "beautiful Russia of the Future" - and completely stop the case for lack of composition and become interested in the personality of the provocateur, who created "New Greatness".

On the other hand, to the wonderful actress Yana Trojanova on the eve of the march, they went with a whip: to threaten her with criminal liability for organizing an “unauthorized action”. This is already very similar to the plots of films about modern Russia in which it starred. Troyanov failed to scare.

Special services created a fictitious extremist group "New Greatness" in order to report on their successes and get well -deserved bonuses. Subsequently, when the case fell apart before the court in front of the whole country, the security forces continued to take a strict position on Pavlikova and her "accomplices" solely for intimidation. Like, do not let your children on the Internet, and even more so do not let them think about the fate of the homeland, otherwise we will arrest them.

The effect of all this abomination was the exact opposite: people were tired of being afraid. Instead of fictional “greatness”, a very specific new solidarity was established.