Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar. 30 – The intensity of Russian opposition to the war and its spread across the entire country – on that see doshdu.com/v-ingushetii-adygee-i-eshhe-20-regionah-vozbuzhdeny-60-antivoennyh-ugolovnyh-del/ -- are highlighted by the level of repression the Kremlin has deployed against it, Ivan Kurilla says.
Indeed, the Russian scholar, activist and commentator argues, “the only explanation for the repression” now all too much on public view “is that anti-war attitudes are now very great” and the Kremlin is afraid they will intensify still further as the fighting continues (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=6245DE980E371).
The West still wants to talk about “a split” in the elites of Russia, but “in Russia, there are no ‘elites;’ there is no one except Putin” and no one is really rallying around him. They may not be ready to challenge him but that doesn’t mean they support what he is doing in Ukraine or elsewhere, Kurilla says.
Those who profess to see unity at the top of the Russian political pyramid are ignoring the evidence that “bankers are distancing themselves from the regime. The cultural elite is fleeing. Even among the political hierarchs, there are Dvorkoviches. If we see this on the surface, then there are no reasons to think that inside everything is monolithic.”
And as far as the population is concerned, he continues, the Kremlin wouldn’t be passing ever more repressive legislation unless it feared opposition. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov may say that “fewer than 25 percent” of Russians oppose what the Kremlin is doing. But what reason is there to believe his latest lie given his track record of not telling the truth?
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