Released Udaltsov announced suspicions regarding Sobchak and Navalny
There are provocateurs and unscrupulous people in the Russian protest environment. This was stated at a press conference in Moscow today by one of the leaders of the protest movement in Russia in 2011-2013, Sergei Udaltsov, who was convicted in the Bolotnaya case and was recently released, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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Udaltsov said that he intends to seek acquittal and compensation in the “Bolotnaya case,” since the riots during the march of demonstrators to Bolotnaya Square in May 2012 were allegedly organized by the authorities.
“During the search that the police carried out at the entrance to the square, it is clear that those who then threw bottles at the police are provocateurs,” he said.
Some figures in the protest movement also “behaved strangely.” In particular, Alexey Navalny, the day before the action, proposed, without notifying anyone, to go to the Udarnik cinema, which would end with people being beaten.
“This would set people up, they would simply be beaten there. What is this – short-sightedness or a conscious desire for provocative activities?
I don’t know, I don’t want to blame anyone, but you should also know that not everyone in the opposition is so white and fluffy. Today many of us close their eyes and put on white glasses - if you are against Putin, then you already have an indulgence from everything. But there (in the protest movement) there are also unscrupulous people. We will talk and ask why they behaved this way,” he said.
“I will meet with these people, including Navalny, and we will discuss all these situations - first of all for myself, in order to assess the possibility of further close interaction with these people. If I don’t get answers to these questions, if I have doubts about the sincerity of these people, how they act, whether they are independent in their decisions or are they puppets, why are they trying to expose people to some kind of repression, what is their goal. If I receive understanding, then interaction is possible, if not, then it’s impossible,” Udaltsov added.
“Today, by the way, I am observing the situation with mass actions, when, without regard for people, they are suddenly, in my opinion, subjected to threshing, to batons, to arrest. I don’t know, maybe this is a strategy, but it seems to me that people should not be treated this way,” the politician noted.
He also mentioned Ksenia Sobchak’s public appearances, calling her a “Trojan horse.”
“She made a statement on social networks the day before: don’t go, there will be provocations. A certain picture is being built - maybe these guys and the authorities, who then happily blocked the passage to Bolotnaya, were in tandem, creating this narrow corridor, a crush, when people could have died,” he said.
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