Denunciations Again Becoming 'Socially Approved' in Russia, Arkhipova Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Feb. 9 – Denunciations are becoming “a socially approved action” in Putin’s Russia, Aleksandr Arkhipova says; and the threat of such denunciations are becoming an ever more powerful means of social control than even the use of denunciations by officials to whom they are sent.
    The independent Russian anthropologist who writes the Fun Anthropology telegram channel is collecting examples of both official calls for denouncing migrants, minorities or opponents of the war and the threat of denunciations by some members of the public against others (t.me/anthro_fun/3296 reposted at echofm.online/opinions/soczialnoe-odobrenie-donositelstva).
    In her latest telegram post, she provides examples of both and calls on her readers to send her additional ones.