A session of self -disclosure of authoritarianism

How many people throughout Russia changed their attitude to power after mass cruel detentions in Moscow on July 27? A lot, a lot. Not 50%, of course, and not even 20%, but the shift is significant.

Alexey Mazur

At a peaceful action for honest elections in Moscow, which the authorities were not agreed, 1373 people were detained ( data from the OVD-Info). Some participants were injured, municipal deputy Alexander Parsushina , for example, they broke their head with a club - it was tilted by the protesters.

The head of the analytical department of Taiga.info Alexei Mazur argues why the authorities chose the most stringent scenario of suppression of protests, and how this threatens for them.

Joke:

- Dad, dad, they were all arrested! Absolutely for nothing!
“Daughter, it's too early for you to read the news.”
- Dad, I'm reading Chipolino!

On the eve of Saturday, July 27 was discussed with a friend “What will happen in Moscow”. He offered me to “simulate” the meeting in the presidential administration, which discusses what to do. My friend played the role of the conditional “liberal in power”, and I am a conditional “security forces”.

Liberal: Let's get out of the crisis without a scandal and significant image losses. Part of the opposition candidates will register - like, you see, we are not animals, the court recognized your case. We will let people go out, shout, but we will not do hard acceleration.

Silovik: You are crazy. For 10 years we built a rigid antimitic legislation, dispersed inconsistent shares so that all this went on a drain on Saturday? If we allow the opposition to carry out an inconsistent rally with impunity, they are only unbelted. The next time they will be released five times more, and then they will completely stop coordinating rallies. We must stand up with a wall, do not step back a step. Then we will break their resistance and dump the hunt to go to inconsistent rallies. So we survived in 2012, so we will stand it now. As for the registration of independent candidates: for 20 years we have built legislation, which allows us to participate in the elections only to system candidates, tightened the requirements for parties, the requirements for signatures. And you want to lower it into the toilet only because 20 thousand people entered Sakharov? It's like selling a meter of border.

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“Liberal”: And is it all in front of foreign media and the whole Runet?

Silovik: This is not the first time. Most people do not give a damn, and Solovyov will explain everything on TV.

“Liberal” (to myself): Ok, I wash my hands, let's see the results of what happened to you.

The arguments of the "security forces" look completely logical (and therefore predictable). However, we see that completely logical solutions lead to the fact that third -party observers are regarded as stupidity and error.

The moral justification of the authorities in the history: “We are for the law (which we ourselves wrote). The law is harsh, but it is a law. "

But from the point of view of the ordinary layman, this will not even pull on a fig leaf. For some reason, the law “cuts off” only opposition candidates, but does not at all prevent candidates from power. This is strange, since the law does not write anywhere "the signatures of opposition candidates are checked with special addiction."

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The ordinary layman sees that Russian citizens want to participate in the elections, but they are not allowed. People go out to protest against injustice, and they are arrested and beat with batons.

Authoritarianism in the purest form is obtained. And you can’t refute any casuistics about the “law of harsh”.

How many people throughout Russia have changed their attitude towards power? A lot, a lot. Not 50%, of course, and not even 20, but the shift is significant.

And a significant shift in the actions of the opposition. Not the requirement “Power, kill yourself about the wall”, but “Power, put us into the polls”. And the reaction of power is as if self -destruction requires it.

It turns out that the authorities are not ready to compete with the opposition in the elections? What is she afraid of this? And this is not the election of the president or mayor of Moscow, and not even the State Duma election. And just some Moscow City Duma.

A lot of extra questions appear in the heads of the townsfolk. And batons are far from the best answer to them.