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A whole group of extremists who threatened nothing less than to arrange a new revolution in Russia were detained by the FSB. Representatives of the Artpodgotovka movement prepared pogroms and arson on National Unity Day. The leader of the movement was one of the associates of the leader of the PARNAS party, Mikhail Kasyanov. Why did the non-systemic opposition collaborate with such a radical character?
Fugitive opposition leader and émigré Vyacheslav Maltsev on Friday evening called a series of arrests of his supporters in Russia a "dirty provocation." “There is the Artpodgotovka channel, in which I broadcast every evening. We have supporters, spectators. But such people - half of Russia. I have some programs watched by five million people. And this is just the Artpodgotovki group. Am I issuing some documents? - Maltsev asked rhetorically, speaking on the air of "Echo of Moscow".
According to him, he does not know who the FSB officers detained, and the bottles of gasoline found during the searches do not prove the fact of preparations for arson.
As the VZGLYAD newspaper wrote, on Friday the FSB announced that it had detained a number of activists of the Artpodgotovka movement, specifying that they planned to set fire to administrative buildings in the center of Moscow on National Unity Day and attack policemen in order to provoke mass riots. The issue of initiating a case under the article "Attempted terrorist act" is being decided. The FSB stopped the activities of the Artpodgotovka cells in Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Kazan, Samara and Saratov.
According to the Saratov online newspaper Vzglyad-info, in Saratov and neighboring Engels, special services held events in the apartments of certain Sergei Ryzhov, Dmitry Peshkov, Alexander Molokin and Dmitry Germanov. Ryzhov is charged with preparing a terrorist attack on November 4 or 5. The Frunzensky District Court has already sent Ryzhov into custody for two months.
Vyacheslav Maltsev's active political career began in the nineties. In 1994-2007, he was a deputy and even vice-speaker of the Saratov Regional Duma. He created a large security firm and even called himself "the richest man in the area." At the beginning of the 2000s, he was a member of " United Russia". He was also a member of the Fatherland - All Russia party, ran for the Communist Party. However, Maltsev's affair with any of the parties was always short-lived. From a formal point of view, Maltsev is right - he did not legalize his movement and did not issue membership cards to supporters. Maltsev founded the unregistered Artpodgotovka movement (at the end of October the Krasnoyarsk regional court banned it, recognizing it as extremist) and the YouTube channel of the same name a few years ago, by his own admission, to organize a “revolution” in Russia.
Wanging revolutionary
Last year, Maltsev entered the State Duma elections already from the PARNAS party, after which the top of this already dwarf party immediately split. Maltsev actually became the face of PARNAS, eclipsing its nominal leader, ex-premier Mikhail Kasyanov. He actively used radical rhetoric, speaking at pre-election debates on federal television, demanding the impeachment of the president. As a result, the party won less than a percentage of the votes.
In June, Maltsev was arrested for 10 days for disobeying the demands of law enforcement officers at an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow.
Many years ago, Maltsev began to prophesy a new revolution in Russia, and he even indicated the exact date - November 5, 2017. According to him, mass riots will break out in the center of Moscow during the next “Russian March” on November 4 and will develop into a revolution the next morning. In July, a criminal case was opened against Maltsev under the article “Public calls for extremist activities.” “Fearing a possible arrest, he fled abroad and continued his “propaganda of violent actions” on the Internet,” the FSB recalled on Friday. Presumably, Maltsev fled to France. In mid-October, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested Maltsev in absentia.
Although there are no signs of a revolutionary situation in the country, which even the majority of radical oppositionists agree with, Maltsev again warned a few days ago that the people "will go to a referendum, to a people's gathering." He even released an appeal to employees on the Web. power structures, threatening them: "The revolution is coming on November 5, 2017" - and offered to go over to his side.
Managed to reassure the Ukrainians
By the way, the Ukrainian press took Maltsev's predictions at face value. Even publications that position themselves as reputable, seriously accompanied their publications on domestic Russian politics with a note that a revolution would take place in Moscow on November 5, 2017, after which Kyiv would receive both Crimea and Donbass back.
Indeed, in his election rhetoric, Maltsev promised to immediately conclude a peace treaty with Ukraine if he came to power. However, Ukrainian analysts should hardly take Maltsev's word for it - even before the reunification of Crimea and Russia, he himself called for "squeezing" territories from Ukraine.
Andrey Tikhonov, an expert at the Center for Political Analysis, recalled that party leader Mikhail Kasyanov personally achieved Maltsev's inclusion on the PARNAS electoral list a year ago, which showed a tendency to "attract strange personnel to realize political ambitions."
“Maltsev represented the nationalist spectrum of the opposition. The idea that the radical opposition can succeed only if it attracts nationalists to its side was worked out back in the 2000s, when the People movement was created. And Alexei Navalny also participated in this, he started as a Russian nationalist,” Tikhonov told the VZGLYAD newspaper.
The expert called the liberals' flirting with the marginalized public logical. Tikhonov recalled that Maltsev had a huge audience on the YouTube channel. Opposition leaders, including Navalny, came to him on the air. “He was really listened to. But the quality of this audience is questionable. Many who in that year of the Duma elections came across Maltsev’s sayings were perplexed how this person can say such things, why he is not yet in prison, ”Tikhonov recalled.
The political scientist suggested that Navalny's "frostbitten supporters" are now unlikely to believe in Maltsev's guilt, but "this should impress" those who doubt. “They should think about what kind of people were next to Navalny. I do not rule out that among the bulkers there may be extremists capable of anything. This is a signal to all reasonable forces to stay away from the radicals,” Tikhonov summed up.
The Russian Federation is on the verge of a coup d'état, many analysts and visionaries believe so. In the context of conflicts in the Middle East and sanctions from the European side, these forecasts sound plausible. What lies ahead for Russia in the coming year?
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. The political situation of a century ago is painfully similar to today, - analyst Yevgeny Gontmakher is convinced. He expressed his opinion two years ago in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. At the turn of the 19th and 20th, 20th and 21st centuries, Russia was getting every chance for a new start. But Emperor Nicholas II, and then Vladimir Putin, did not implement the promised reforms, which affected the mood of the Russians. The gap between rich and poor widened.
According to forecasts, the October Revolution may repeat in 2017
The Bolsheviks enlisted the support of the disadvantaged sections of the population - the townspeople - "lumpen" and poor peasants. It was they who, annoyed by the actions of Nicholas II, brought his opponents to power. It is easy to imagine such a situation today, when millions of Russians have crossed the poverty line. Yevgeny Gontmakher believes that the positions of the Russian authorities rely only on the influence of Vladimir Putin. But let's go back to history.
There are many examples of how, after the death of a leader who ruled for more than a decade, the country was engulfed in protracted conflicts. For example, the Mexican leader Porfirio Diaz was in power for 30 years and left behind a seven-year civil war. Sheikh Reza Pahlavi of Iran ruled the country for almost four decades, but lost all power during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Such examples can be found in the history of many countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
Today we can hardly imagine the future of Russia without Putin. The President has long gone from being an ordinary politician to a national leader. According to the results of an all-Russian poll, 52% of citizens “rather trust” the president, and 21% “trust completely”. And, although Vladimir Putin's ratings are falling every year, any Western politician will envy them.
Vyacheslav Maltsev believes that the revolution will begin on October 5, 2017
Revolution in Russia November 5, 2017
This date was "appointed" by the Russian opposition leader Vyacheslav Maltsev. He became popular thanks to the political show that he hosts on YouTube online. In one of the issues, Maltsev stated that the revolution would begin no later than November 5th. It will be one hundred years since the October Revolution, and the Russians will be ripe for a change of power.
Maltsev openly criticizes Putin and calls himself a "friend of Ukraine." But is the leader trustworthy? After all, the YouTube channel of the oppositionist appeared shortly after his comrade Vyacheslav Volodin became the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Maltsev confirms his acquaintance with the official, although he says that now they different sides barricade.
Clairvoyant predictions
On the Internet, we constantly see gloomy "prophecies" about the future of Russia. In fact, most of these statements were invented by scammers. Psychics rarely made predictions tied to certain dates, and even more so to dates that are very distant in time.
The main problem is to separate fakes from real political forecasts
More accurate forecasts are given by modern soothsayers and astrologers. For example, he believes that in 2017 Russia will emerge from a protracted crisis and strengthen its position on the world stage. Vanga predicted a bright future for Russia and the reunification of the USSR. True, the blind seer did not say when these events would occur.
Will there be a revolution?
Despite the similarities with 1917, there are fewer prerequisites for a revolution now. The opposition still does not have a leader like Lenin or Trotsky. According to 2015 statistics, 67% of Russian citizens are sure that “everything is fine” in the country, and only 14% think that “everything is bad.” Given Russians' propensity for pessimism, these results come as no surprise. But the indicators are deteriorating every year, and, quite possibly, one day the discontent of the inhabitants of the Russian Federation will reach a boiling point.
When in November 2014 I began to use the tag “economic crisis” in the Snob news, one of our experts, the head of a large bank, only laughed when he learned about it. He said that there is no crisis. The Russian government at that moment also refused to admit that hard times had come in the country. I saw the opposite: oil became cheaper, everything else became more expensive, people saved on food, and what was happening was very reminiscent of the 2008 crisis.
In that year, many dark events took place in the world, which I followed intently. And, probably, that's why, back in early September, I began to think about leaving Russia, away from sin. At the end of autumn, I flew away to Asia for half a year, and a few days later, on Black Tuesday, both experts and officials, and, it seems, all the inhabitants of Russia in general, began to call the crisis a “crisis”.
In the same year, I thought that in 2017 a revolution awaits us. Now it's hard to remember whether I read about it in the press, heard it on the bus or in the company of friends, but this idea is deeply embedded in my head.
Why exactly in 2017? I do not know this. However, the feeling that something is coming in the country has only intensified lately.
Who predicted the revolution in 2017
One of the first - in December 2005 - about the revolution-2017 was the former vice-speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Ryzhkov. He gave an interview in which he pessimistically noted that a new revolution would begin in October 2017, after the oil runs out.
Vladimir Ryzhkov, professor high school economy (in December 2005):
According to the estimates of the International Energy Agency, we have exactly 12 years of oil left. When the "black gold" ends, the country will be penniless. The people will begin to storm the Winter Palace, with the only difference being that in October 1917 they wanted to seize the government that was sitting there, and in 2017 they want to steal the museum’s paintings in order to sell them to foreigners and feed their families.
By that time, the idea of revolution was already disturbing the minds of Russians. According to Yandex.News, the first material Russian media, which mentioned both "revolution" and "2017", came out five months after Ryzhkov's statement - on February 16, 2006. It was a transcript of the broadcast on Ekho Moskvy, during which the presenter read out a message from a listener named Dmitry: “Entering the WTO is a planned preparation for the 2017 revolution.”
In the next six years, the topic of the revolution was hardly raised in the media, and they started talking seriously only on the 95th anniversary of the October Revolution. In November 2012, Doctor of Political Science Sergei Chernyakhovsky wrote an op-ed for Nakanune.ru entitled “The situations of 1917 and 2017 are very similar,” in which he stated that “there are all prerequisites” for the 2017 revolution.
The revival began in 2013, when the branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Barnaul held a conference "Revolution-2017: myth or reality." Local communists believed so much that it was real that on November 7, 2015, the first secretary of the Barnaul City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Andrei Sartakov, said from the podium: "There will be a revolution in 2017."
In 2013, the Perm branch of the Lenin Komsomol, a youth political organization, posted on Twitter, a demotivator with Vladimir Lenin, who hid around the corner "in anticipation of 2017."
In September 2015, economist Yevgeny Gontmakher published an article entitled “Revolution 2017” in Moskovsky Komsomolets, in which he compared the prerequisites for the 1917 revolution with the current state of affairs in the country.
Evgeny Gontmakher, Deputy Director for scientific work Institute of World Economy and International Relations (in September 2015):
Compared with autocratic Russia of the 20th century, today's day provides abundant ground for coincidences. For example, there is a rapid lumpenization of the population, which is predetermined by many factors: the low quality of education, the decline of mass culture, the abundance of “bad” (i.e., non-prestigious and low-paid) jobs, the pulling together of the most active and advanced people into a few big cities, leaving a critical number of "orphans and the poor" in other populated areas.
At the end of 2015, the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, gave a press conference at which he stated that a revolution in Russia was inevitable (however, he did not name the exact date of its beginning).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of Open Russia (December 2015):
We are dealing with a full-fledged anti-constitutional coup. What's the way out? In the absence of the institution of fair elections and other mechanisms for a legitimate change of power, the only way to change it is a revolution. Revolution in Russia is inevitable. The remnants of reserves and the threat of reprisals only delay its inevitable offensive.
The question is how to make the revolution at least relatively peaceful and effective in terms of restoring the democratic governance of the country. Revolution is a good word. It can and should be peaceful. To make the revolution peaceful is our common task.
When will the 2017 revolution start?
November 5, 2017 is the date of the beginning of a new revolution in Russia. At least, this is the opinion of the former Saratov deputy, nationalist and video blogger Vyacheslav Maltsev, as well as his numerous supporters, who covered the walls of houses in Russian cities with the numbers “11/5/17”.
Who is this anyway? Vyacheslav Maltsev from 1994 to 2007 worked as a deputy in the Saratov Regional Duma, participated in the creation of the local "United Russia", although later he criticized it more than once. In 2016, he won the primaries of Parnassus and almost led to a split within the party - after a statement about "political patience". During the first debate on TV channel Rossiya-1, Maltsev called for the impeachment of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Didn't get into the State Duma.
Maltsev leads the YouTube channel " Artillery preparation”, where his program “Bad News” is released every week from Monday to Friday. He begins each broadcast with words about how many days are left before the start of the “new historical era”, that is, until November 5, 2017. The channel is popular: each issue of Bad News has about 80-100 thousand views, more than 100 thousand people subscribe to the account.
Residents of Russia have already begun to protest, but active protests will begin in the spring and summer of 2017, sociologist Natalya Tikhonova believes.
Natalia Tikhonova, Research Professor at the Higher School of Economics (in February 2016):
Protest surges are already underway. But they go for economic reasons, locally. And in principle, the authorities are trying to extinguish them - not to put pressure, but to extinguish them. Because while the population fully shares the concept that the current situation is to blame, firstly, the fall in oil prices (and this is like the weather or the harvest - today is bad, tomorrow will be good), and, secondly, that we are also trying to bend in an arc after the Crimea. And the population, of course, is still ready for certain sacrifices.
People still buy groceries - they just don't buy a new refrigerator now. Or decided to wait with the change of machine. Adaptive mechanisms are well known. For example, a quarter of the population returned to vegetable gardens - at one time they stopped planting potatoes, now they have started again. Well, they didn’t put her in jail for only a few years, maybe five.
That is, nothing fundamentally new happened in their lives. And therefore, in general, there is no sharp protest now. Another thing is that after two to two and a half years of such self-restraint, household resources begin to run out. Shoes break down, clothes wear out, and there is no money for a new one, the TV is broken, the refrigerator is leaking ... In general, something starts to happen that requires additional investments. And there is no money for it. That's when it starts to get really annoying. If we have been experiencing crisis phenomena for about a year, then there is still a year and a half left before the population starts to resent.
Scenario two. A crisis
Leading European economists doubt that recession protests could begin in Russia, Bloomberg journalists found out in February 2016, who interviewed 27 economists from different countries. Only six of them said there was a 50 percent chance of protests in Russia, the rest estimated the chances of a revolution at 30 percent. “The political response to poverty is likely to be apathy, not revolution,” Wolf-Fabian Hungerland, an economist at the Hamburg Berenberg Bank, said at the time.
There is no revolution in Russia in the rating of the main threats of 2017, which is prepared annually by Bloomberg. On the other hand, it has a new world economic crisis, which will surely hit Russia (this was the case in 1998 and 2008). In its pessimistic forecast, the publication predicts a repeat of the 1997 Asian crisis - markets could fall if Donald Trump unleashes an economic war with China.
Russian economists and experts are also waiting for the global economic crisis, and very soon. The fact is that the world economy is subject to cyclical fluctuations, so another fall can be expected until 2019, says economist Vladislav Inozemtsev.
Vladislav Inozemtsev, Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Society Studies (in October 2016):
The world economy is subject to cyclical fluctuations that occur with a fairly clear frequency. The world is now in its seventh year of sustained economic growth. Whatever supports this growth, it will not last forever: serious slowdowns in the US economy were noted in 1980 and 1982, 1991, 2001 and 2008-2009 (while in 2001 there was still growth, while in other cases there was a recession). Judging by the frequency, a new sharp decline should occur between 2016 and 2019, that is, pretty soon. And while the US economy hasn't suffered too much (in 2009, the biggest decline in decades was 3.5 percent), stock markets have fallen by 40-55 percent, and commodity prices have moved even more strongly. A repeat of something like this in 2017-2018 will almost certainly hurt Russian economy irreparable damage. And what is especially unpleasant, there are more and more signs in the world that the crisis is not far off.
One of the most prominent private traders in Russia (according to RBC), Vasily Oleinik, in turn, believes that in 2017-2018 "something very bad will happen." And in this situation, according to him, cash will become a reliable asset.
Vasily Oleinik, Itinvest expert (in August 2016):
Something very bad is going to happen in the next two years. When that happens, the most valuable asset will be cash. So if you have some kind of airbag, don't store it in banks or buy stocks. Keep money in foreign currency, but not in euros, but in dollars, francs, yuan. When disaster strikes, tremendous opportunities open up for you. You just need to manage your cash wisely. It is possible to buy stocks that will fall in price to record levels, real estate - whoever has enough for what.
Scenario three. Revolution in the mind
The political situation in Russia will radically change in 2017-2018, but not because of the revolution, but thanks to the changes that are already taking place in the mass consciousness of Russians, the political scientist and one of the most accurate predictors of reshuffles in power believes (in the words of Gazeta.Ru ) Valery Solovey.
Valery Solovey, professor at MGIMO (in October 2016):
I do not at all believe that a bloody revolution will take place in Russia, especially with large-scale apocalyptic consequences like the collapse of the country. Nothing like this will happen.
I am inclined to believe that the political situation in Russia will change dramatically over the next two years. And it seems that the changes will begin precisely in the 17th year. The point here is not the magic of numbers, not that this is a centenary - it's just a coincidence. There are some grounds for this prediction.
If we say that everything today is in the hands of the authorities, we must not forget that the authorities, which have no competitors, will certainly begin to make mistake after mistake. Plus, the general situation is running out: the country's resources are running out, and discontent is growing. It's one thing when you endure a year or two. And when you are given to understand, and you yourself “inwardly” feel that you will have to endure all your life (20 years of stagnation, what then?), your attitude begins to change.
And you suddenly realize that you have nothing to lose. You already seem to have lost everything. So what the hell is not joking - maybe change is better?
Sociologists who are engaged in qualitative research say that we are on the eve of a radical reversal of mass consciousness, which will be very large-scale and deep. And this is a turn away from the loyalty of the authorities. We experienced a similar situation at the turn of the 80-90s of the last century, before the collapse of the USSR. Because first revolutions occur in the minds. It is not even the readiness of people to oppose the authorities. This is the unwillingness to consider it a power that deserves obedience and respect - what is called the loss of legitimacy.
Scenario four. Nothing
Political scientist and economist Dmitry Travin doubts at all that a revolution is possible in Russia. In his opinion, the current political situation does not look like the events of 1917, rather, like Brezhnev's stagnation, but with shops littered with food and with the "ideology of a besieged fortress" in their heads.
Dmitry Travin, Professor at the European University (December 2016):
In connection with the approaching anniversary of the Russian revolution, in the coming 2017, we are increasingly looking for features of the fateful 1917. They sometimes even look for a mystical connection between them, believing that Russia is doomed to shake in convulsions precisely in the 17th year, and in no other.
We will not look for a mystical connection, but if we look at the specific factors that determine social instability, it will be difficult to find a serious similarity between eras. What is common, perhaps, is that political regimes in both cases they contain only elements of democracy, and the fact that a significant part of the Russian elite does not like such half-heartedness.
Nothing is the same today as it was in 1917. Power is legitimate, although it rests not on divine origin, but on the personal charisma of the national leader. The standard of living is declining, but not at all as rapidly as during the First World War. And we are waging small victorious wars, not crazy world wars, exhausting the participants to the limit.
The current situation in Russia is much more reminiscent of the Brezhnev era. The stability of the regime is maintained in conditions when the standard of living of the population is slowly declining, the elites are dissatisfied with what is happening, even the leader's charisma is gradually fading, but nothing is happening that would predetermine a social explosion. Brezhnev, as we remember, died quietly in his post, and after him two more elderly general secretaries died in the same post before it was decided to announce perestroika. And it was announced not by the elderly, accustomed to a quiet life, but by representatives of the new generation, which, for some reason, aspired to build socialism with a human face.
And this despite the fact that dissatisfied, of course, everywhere is full. But there is a huge distance from discontent, sometimes recorded by mass polls, to a real revolution. Discontent is nothing more than one component of a social explosion. But far from decisive.
It is difficult to say what the year 2017 will actually be like and what scenario will form its basis. Social tension in society is obviously growing, but I want to believe that this year, troubles will still bypass Russia.
Today at noon, another revolution began and ended in the country, but most Russians did not notice it
Somewhere out there, on the eve of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is laughing and crying. His body lies in a mausoleum on Red Square, and his soul laughs. Because today at exactly 12, when the chimes were chiming on the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, a revolution began in Russia. Few people noticed it, but it was. Not for long, it ended quickly, but still it was - read the chats and the liberal press. Everything would have happened for sure if it were not for the detention of fiery revolutionaries once again and "the people are not the same." In any case, this is the standard version of the variegated unsuccessful shakers of the "Putin regime"
The organizer of today's "revolution", Vyacheslav Maltsev, while in Georgia, on the video channel of his movement on YouTube, was talking about how the authorities are afraid of his supporters, having brought columns into Moscow military equipment that the people are angry and the media is talking about the “revolution” on all channels. In the chats of the protesters of various stripes, in their own little world separate from the rest of the country, there were enthusiastic exclamations about the coming bright future, which the most radical liberals proposed to highlight with burning tires and Molotov cocktails. In turn, political scientists and experts doubted the mental health and adequacy of the Artpodgotovka leader, while supporters of another oppositionist, Alexei Navalny, froze in anticipation, disowning the Maltsevites in advance.
Let's not go far for examples. Take only Krasnodar. The other day, the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny Miroslav Valkovich, with a certain amount of irony, answered the following question from journalists:
“They often began to ask, like: “Well, when and where is 5/11?”. I think you need to ask those who "did not wait, but prepared." They have been preparing for more than a year, but they ask where and when we have it! Of course, I am glad that the headquarters is considered the center of the city's opposition, but the question is not addressed. We are the Headquarters of Alexei Navalny, the future candidate for the presidency of Russia. We are not the organizers of 4, 5 and 6 November. We really hope that the people who have been preparing for so long have done everything wisely, in a balanced way, and there will be no legal consequences.”
That is, Valkovich clearly distanced the headquarters from the "Maltsev". Just in case. However, today, out of a dozen “revolutionaries” who came out to the building of the regional administration, almost half turned out to be supporters and volunteers of Alexei Navalny, and even an activist of the Environmental Watch for North Caucasus". Such is it - the Krasnodar revolutionary core. It is worth noting, of course, that the main contingent of militant "Maltsev revolutionaries" was detained even earlier, on November 2, also about a dozen people. But the banner of struggle was picked up in public by supporters of Alexei Anatolyevich, and there are one and a half thousand subscribers. Many sincerely but sluggishly worried about the future "revolution", called to come to the administration of the region at 12, posted the calls of the "Maltsev" and the leader of "Artpodgotovka" himself. All in vain. Alexei's adherents actually have their own "revolution" planned for March 2018, and Maltsev and his few associates were just its rehearsal, a test of the Russian authorities "for lice". The authorities did not become modest and the "revolutionaries" were gently tied up.
For more than 80% of the country's population who support the president, all these ideas of revolution are initially not interesting, which wildly infuriates the few liberals. They prefer to explain all this by the Russians' fear of Putin and the TV's victory over the refrigerator. This is where the initial failure of all these attempts to arrange in a country that has gone through several revolutions in the 20th century, another one, two or three, lies. Liberals cannot understand that both the country and the people are just rotten ideas of modern "revolutionaries". Those who went through the democratization of the 90s, MMM and "Bush legs" were vaccinated against all these "revolutions". And these 80% know the history of their country much better than any "Navalnists" and "Maltsevites" who actually dream of a coup d'état. In Russia, there was already a revolution made by the liberals - the February revolution. As a result, after they all quarreled among themselves, the Bolsheviks came to power under the leadership of Lenin. That is why today he is crying and laughing at modern "revolutionaries" somewhere.
Expert opinion:
Alexander Topalov– political strategist, head of the Center for Political Studies and Technologies:
“At the moment, it is absolutely obvious that only the least developed members of the protest movement fell for the provocation of the oppositionist Maltsev. Seriously thinking about the use of force, tires and "sandbags" with an asset of 20 people is a sign of not only political, but also completely medical dementia. Navalny's supporters also suffered serious reputational damage today, some of whom joined Artpodgotovka. Thus, one of the chats in Telegram, where the use of force by Artpodgotovka activists is discussed, was created by Navalny’s volunteer, which he himself admits. Saveliev, a member of EcoWatch, was also among the detainees. How the Navalniks and employees of Rudomakha plan to wash their reputation from the participation in the action of people who prepared Molotov cocktails at home is not yet clear.
On Sunday, November 5, mass detentions of supporters of the opposition leader Vyacheslav Maltsev took place in the center of Moscow. People who had nothing to do with Maltsev were also detained. In total, according to OVD-Info, more than 400 people were detained in Russian cities, of which more than three hundred were detained in Moscow alone. The rain collected everything that is known about the “revolution” that took place on November 5th.
What happened
The oppositionist and leader of the Artpodgotovka movement (banned in Russia) Vyacheslav Maltsev has been saying for the past few years that a revolution should take place in Russia on November 5, 2017. He called on his supporters to take to the central streets of Russian cities that day. Manezhnaya and Pushkinskaya squares were named among the venues of the action in Moscow.
As a result, the bulk of the people came to Manezhnaya Square, which was soon cordoned off by police and riot police. The law enforcement authorities examined a large number of people were asked to see the contents of their backpacks, after which many people were sent to police buses. According to the latest data, 339 people were detained.
Among them were not only Maltsev's supporters, but also activists of the "Spring" movement, returning from the readings of Adam Smith, volunteers from the headquarters of Alexei Navalny and other passers-by who were not related to the oppositionist. For example, among the detainees were Pokemon Go players who did not plan to participate in the protest.
In addition, several people were detained in St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don and Perm.
Effects
Polina Nemirovskaya, manager of the human rights department of Open Russia, Dozhdyu that the detainees are being interrogated in the Airport police department as witnesses in the case of calls for a terrorist attack (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and mass riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ).
The detainees are asked if they use the Internet and social networks, if they have credit cards, if they have seen Vyacheslav Maltsev’s videos on the Artpodgotovka channel, if they read the Telegram channel “05/11/17” and how they understand the word “revolution” . Investigators are also looking into whether they know Maltsev and Nationalist Party leader Ivan Beletsky.
Maltsev reaction
Vyacheslav Maltsev himself has been away from Russia for some time. During the events of November 5, he went on air several times on his YouTube channel, where he commented on what was happening. In particular, he said that more than three thousand people were detained in Moscow, without specifying where he got this information from. One of his associates also stated that the revolution was not supposed to end on November 5th.
Maltsev later stated that the protests would continue. “The authorities were very much frightened, and they are trying to pour out this fear on people, to recoup on people. Surely they will answer for this. And we will continue today, we will continue tomorrow, we will continue as long as this power holds on to its place, ” commented Maltsev the results of the action on November 5 on his YouTube channel.
He also expressed gratitude to those people who took to the streets. According to him, one could count on the fact that all people "rise at the same time", but "there is such a thing as fear"
What happened before the action
Detentions of Maltsev's supporters began a few days ago. FSB on November 3 about the detention of members of the “conspiratorial cell of the Artpodgotovka movement” (the organization was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia), who allegedly prepared arson of administrative buildings and attacks on police officers on November 4-5. The department believes that "resonant extremist actions" were planned to be arranged in order to provoke riots in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Kazan, Samara, Saratov and Tomsk.
Maltsev on the eve of Rain, that in total more than a hundred of his supporters were detained. According to him, they are presented as “terrible terrorists” in stories about Russia-24. After that, more than 20 searches took place in Moscow and the Moscow region. Electronic media were confiscated from the activists, the information from which added to the evidence base of the prosecution.
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