Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar 5 -- The Yabloko fraction in the St. Petersburg legislative assembly has sent a letter to the vice governor of that federal district denouncing plans to set up a CCTV system in the northern capital that will identify and track people there according to their ethnicity. The letter says that such a move would violate the Russian constitution.
This action described at spb.yabloko.ru/2025/03/04/peterburgskoe-yablokoschitaet-antikonstitucionnoj-sistemu-raspoznavaniya-etnicheskoj-prinadlezhnosti/ and nazaccent.ru/content/43631-v-peterburge-prizvali-ne-ustanavlivat-kamery-dlya-opredeleniya-etnicheskoj-prinadlezhnosti/. For background on the CCTV plan, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/another-move-toward-new-totalitarianism.html.
Officials called for such a system in order to help the authorities track members of ethnic communities they believe may form criminal groups. The idea of doing so has been roundly criticized by human rights activists. The Yabloko letter however is the first expression of opposition by elected representatives.
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