Zyuganov: It will be worse here than in Belarus
Protests in Russia will be more dramatic than last year's in Belarus.
The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov stated this today from the rostrum of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It will be more difficult and worse here than in Belarus. There, Old Man was not betrayed by either the security forces or social movements. We supported. I had to persuade the TV channels: what are you doing, you’re kicking out your last ally, they’ll take care of you tomorrow. They will remove you, and completely different people will sit here. We are obliged to study and investigate this,” Zyuganov said.
He proposed holding a closed meeting of the Russian Security Council on the current situation, and also expects to personally discuss it with the president.
“The issue is not Navalny. This is an incendiary projectile that was sent here, well prepared, only to set fire to our own Maidan here and break Russian statehood. We are categorically against such a development of events.
Calm down! This bastard will remove you first. Those who came to Kyiv will come: they will shoot those they don’t want, the rest will be imprisoned, dispersed, expelled,” Zyuganov said.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier some of Zyuganov’s party members supported the protest participants. In particular, among them was the ex-governor of the Irkutsk region Sergei Levchenko, whose son was recently imprisoned on charges of corruption. And the head of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Valery Rashkin, demanded the release of the participants in Saturday's riots.
“There are members of the Central Committee who are loyal to the authorities, and there are more radical ones. Zyuganov, for now, is speaking from a “compromising” position, which clearly does not suit that part of the party that is less tied to the Kremlin’s decisions,” explains political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov.
According to him, “this whole story overlaps with the internal struggle for the place of Zyuganov’s successor as secretary general.”
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