The Belarusian scheme of “shaking up the regime” was used in Russia
The organizers of unauthorized rallies in support of blogger Alexei Navalny decided to act according to the Belarusian scenario.
Special correspondent Alexander Kots, who worked in dozens of hot spots, writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“It seems that the West has decided that if the scheme of “shaking up the regime” works in Belarus, then why come up with something different for Russia? All the steps are too similar. To the point that the head of headquarters of opposition blogger Navalny, who was arrested for 30 days, is calling on Germany to gather for unauthorized rallies in Russia next weekend,” notes Kots.
According to him, in Minsk in the first days after the elections, “there were real street battles.”
“By the evening, radicals appeared on the “scene”, ready to confront the security forces. They built barricades, threw cobblestones, attacked riot police...
There were radicals on Saturday in Moscow too. If the majority of those who came to the city center were going to “hang out” and disperse, then the small radical core provoked the riot police to a harsh response. Not only snowballs, but also pieces of ice and bottles were thrown at the security forces. Barriers made of turnstiles were built. At some point, a group of riot police even found themselves surrounded and fought off the attackers for 15 minutes, taking up a perimeter defense,” the journalist continues.
He clarifies that sometimes “the footage of the clashes in Moscow or St. Petersburg was down to the smallest detail similar to the ones in Minsk.”
However, the author writes that the Russian security forces acted much less harshly than the Belarusian riot police - “they handed out medical masks to the protesters, poured tea somewhere, and responded only to outright attacks.”
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