... кстати, до объявления о "рокировке", которую многие считают переломным моментом. Да нет, все зрело уже, - и лишь ускорилось в последовавший период:
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Alternative Agenda Setting The major challenge for the regime is posed not by opposition politicians that have lost the fight for control over symbolic space but by other individuals and organizations. Examples include the expose of widespread corruption in the spending of state budget funds (Aleksei Navalny‘s blog, navalny.livejournal.com, has over fifty thousand friends). ...
Another notable figure is former MP Evgeni Roizman of Yekaterinburg, who is waging his own private war on drugs. Recently, a follower of his from Nizhny Tagil,
Yegor Bychkov, seized Russia‘s attention when he was prosecuted after applying involuntary methods of rehabilitation to drug addicts without their agreement (albeit with that of their relatives). The real debate here was that the state had failed on all sides. Russia has a poor record of accomplishment in stopping and controlling the spread of narcotics, and, like many such small-scale examples, people are doing for themselves what the state cannot do for them.
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Interethnic relations are another topic attracting activists within the ― new agenda. Typically labeled ―nationalists or even ―fascists by authorities, many such activists in fact speak about the inability of the state to provide equal levels of law enforcement across the land. They also point to discrepancies in obedience to the law by minority youth who are protected by politically influential ―diasporas in many Russian cities".
Кстати, тогда же этот текст
вольно пересказала итальянская La Repubblica, стыдливо процитировав меня в самом конце статьи.
Прошло два года.