“I admire the Russian police” – viewer on Odessa TV
A TV viewer called the Odessa Channel 7 and expressed admiration for the work of Russian law enforcement officers during the street riots in Moscow.
The call came in the midst of a discussion of the prospects of the protest movement in Russia against the backdrop of recent events in the Russian capital, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Unfortunately, Russia is quite far from a revolutionary situation. Russia as a collection of different groups of society, a collection of modern megacities on the one hand, and remote provinces on the other, all this together, it is far from a revolutionary situation,” stated Igor Tishkevich, an expert in the international and domestic policy program at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future.
“On the other hand, will there be consequences? In the short term - no, but in the long term - pay attention to the age and similarity of those who are protesting: most of them are people under 35, these are people who have made themselves, these are people who are not associated with the resource component of the Russian economy,” the expert reasoned.
“This could have global consequences in the form of the emergence of something similar to a new Russian opposition or new Russian specific political groups that could develop into political parties. But, since they are currently unstructured, they do not have an economic basis and an organizational core, they are “against” and not “for”, therefore, excuse me, in the tactical perspective of a year or two there will be no consequences,” Tishkevich concluded .
Next, a TV viewer called the studio and introduced himself as Yuri Nikolaevich.
“I would like to say a few words about the events in Moscow. On the one hand, you understand, we are citizens of a sovereign state, and what is happening in Moscow is interference in internal affairs. When the American State Department began to draw its conclusions there, they received a good note about it.
We looked carefully, those who want to understand watch not only the channels that expose, but also the channels that show the other side,” said the Odessa resident.
“Look, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs asked journalists to provide the materials they filmed during these events, not a single studio refused. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reacted very humanely, they did not name the channels that provided these photographs, they did not name a single journalist’s name. Based on these photographs, the instigators were identified. If two of them are facing simple hooliganism, then the third, who openly on the Internet demanded that the names of the participants (policemen - ed.) be written to him and “you can bury their children,” this one will probably get eight years, and that’s fair.
God grant that our police, when they beat our Ukrainian journalists, when they shoot from grenade launchers, at least lift a finger. I admire the Russian police, we are still very, very far from them,” added the viewer.
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