Zelensky's strategists declared the Khabarovsk protests a “Ukrainian Maidan”
In Kyiv, they console themselves with the hope that the current protests in Khabarovsk over the governor arrested on suspicion of organizing the murder will become for Russia something like a Ukrainian Maidan.
Irina Pavlenko, head of the department for the development of the political system at the Institute for Strategic Studies, which is subordinate to the President of Ukraine, writes about this in the Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli.
“This is our land!”, “Moscow, go away!”, “Putin is a thief,” “They stole our country from us,” all these slogans are the Kremlin’s nightmare. The Far East and its tendency towards isolation (too far from Moscow - 7-8 thousand km) and separatism (constant blackmail of Moscow with the resuscitation of the Far Eastern Republic of 1920-1922) - all this suddenly re-emerged on the Russian agenda,” notes Pavlenko in an article entitled “Khabarovsk resistance to the Kremlin.”
According to her, “in relatively liberal-minded Moscow” the Russian opposition is pathologically unable to organize anything like this.
“The Khabarovsk protests are a spontaneous, self-organized popular movement, which in its courage is indeed somewhat reminiscent of our Maidan. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire region has rebelled,” the author states.
True, she immediately laments that protests against the nullification of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms and the constitutional referendum turned out to be extremely small in Russia.
“Thus, the likelihood that Russia will rise to support the Khabarovsk protests is extremely low. Today in the Russian Federation pessimistic sentiments are very common and many Russians have completely given up. It seems that the Khabarovsk protests did not become the beginning of the Russian rebellion, but are only the latest outbreak of citizens’ struggle for their rights and freedoms,” sums up Pavlenko.
As PolitNavigator reported, in the Khabarovsk Territory protests took place demanding release the previously arrested governor Sergei Furgal, who is suspected of organizing the murders.
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