Fear Saturday-2. The crisis is over, it remains to merge the protest

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin"

If this Saturday in the center of Moscow is repeated at least the same as the past , that is, mass beatings and detention, it means that the authorities really deliberately overturning the relative stability that has developed in recent years, consciously destroys the established order, consciously goes to the outstark. If people are allowed to calmly go along some boulevard, if the detentions begin at the very end and only conjure something of the generally recognized (conditionally-if only those who will put up tents on Lubyanskaya Square are grabbed)-then the artificial crisis arranged in connection with the election of the Moscow City Duma has ended, the needs of it are no longer there.

The statement of Sergei Sobyanin, who was impressed by everyone, works for the second, “soft” option. What did Sobyanin talk about? Formally - that he approves of the actions of the Russian Guard, and that Russia is not Zimbabwe. In fact, he has no own secret political ambitions, he is clean in front of his Kremlin authorities and is waiting for further instructions that are obliged to fulfill. In this sense, his statement looks like Dmitry Medvedev’s speech at the Congress of United Russia on September 24, 2011 - “I didn’t cry, it’s just my face.” If the hypothesis is true that it was the political surrender of Sobyanin that was the goal of this artificial crisis, then the goal was achieved, you can return to a peaceful life.

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