Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 10 – The Ivan Golunov
case, the SerpomPo telegram channel says, is “a catalyst which is accelerating
the destruction of the existing system in Russia,” not only because it comes as
protests are spreading and deepening across the country but also because even “odious,
pro-powers” people have begun to speak out on behalf of the arrested
journalist.
Their voices provide support for those
who say that the various regional and
local protests in fact can come together and lead to a more direct challenge to
the Putin regime, the telegram channel says (t.me/SerpomPo/3284
repeated at echo.msk.ru/blog/serpompo2018/2442589-echo/).
Already, SerpomPo
says, “the number of protests on various issues is growing, and they have a
tendency to combine, clearly showing society that the crisis in the system in
Russia is everywhere: there is no segment where the affairs of the bosses are
in good shape. They have ceased to cope with the situation everywhere.”
As those protesting one issue come to understand that,
they are more than willing to combine with others protesting unrelated issues. “For
example, people unhappy with the declining standard of living came out against
the Russian Orthodox Church’s raid in Yekaterinburg.
According
to the telegram channel, “the bosses if one judges by their behavior, do not
understand this.” Instead, they think that arrests and the threat of more and
upbeat statements about the economy are enough. But none of this is achieving what
they hope and means they are “not in a position to stop the movement of people
in defense of their rights.”
“The
authorities already cannot run things in the old way,” SerpomPo concludes. “People
ever more do not want to live as they did before. The country is waking up.”
And the situation is now very much in motion.
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