Anti-government protests under the pretext of the detention of the notorious Russian opposition leader Navalny took place in various cities across the country.
They were characterized by underwhelming attendance, claims of grandeur and awkward attempts at spreading violence. Protests were immediately endorsed by the Washington establishment. Notably, the United States Embassy in Moscow published detailed times and locations of unsanctioned rallies. Some Western leaders have made direct calls for an escalation of violence.
The entire situation resembled a staged performance that took place just days after the US President Joe Biden was inaugurated. The Russian scare narrative has already been pushed by the US Democrats and the US MSM for a long time. It is expected that the new Administration policy regarding Moscow will become even more hawkish. The detention of Alexey Navalny will be simply used as a justification for further aggressive actions against Russia. It fits perfectly with the Washington concept of cultivating an image of an unpredictable and irreconcilable foreign enemy to American values and democracy in general.
It is quite evident that Alexey Navalny, his sponsors, teammates and supporters were fully aware that he would get arrested when he returned to Russia. This could have been entirely avoided if he simply returned a bit earlier. He would thus meet the terms of his suspended sentence over the corruption and bribery in Russia. But then there would be no reason to protest.
Navalny even published a dramatic address saying that he had no desire to kill himself, to avoid any potential scenarios and being used as a sacrifice for the greater neo-liberal good.
As the hubs of the neo-liberal agenda in Russia, Moscow and Saint Petersburg hosted the largest protests. Protests in other regions were much smaller. However, there were even those protesting in extreme temperatures, showing that there is a motivated and unrelenting core.
The protest attendance, against the entire population of the cities, however, pales and shows an unimpressive turnout.
Reports of attendance vary, with some claiming at least 40,000 gathered in Moscow, with the authorities putting the number at merely 4,000. Others claimed that the numbers somewhere in the middle.
In Saint Petersburg, Kommersant reported that there was an attendance of about 5,000.
Other cities with a significant protest presence include Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Nizhny Novgorod.
The Russian branch of the BBC said that protests took place in 122 towns and cities across the country.
It appears that there was little friction among the general population. A notable part of protesters were likely paid. The core consisted of various unemployed idlers, young city hipsters, liberals and different minorities. A significant presence was seen from youths and minors, who were subjected to a large-scale social media campaign.
Many videos were released claiming police violence. Every video showed the same situation – an individual rushing towards police and attempting to assault the officers, and then getting detained in return.
There were no casualties, however, not from the side of the authorities, nor from the protesters. Evident attempts at causing casualties, by involving minors and youths, were obviously made, but they failed.
Fake news also became the integral part of this anti-government campaign. They were mostly dedicated to alleged killings and incredible numbers of arrests by the authorities. These messages were actively endorsed by mainstream social media, including the Chinese-operated TikTok. While Washington, which prefers to see the Russian statehood destroyed, Beijing is also not averse to use the situation for getting additional leverage on the Kremlin to strengthen its own position in joint projects. As a result, the narrative is being constructed as a “political persecution”.
The side shouting “witch hunt” the most, is the United States, whose administration referred to half of its population of Trump supporters as “domestic terrorists”, and “fascists” for not supporting the establishment of the neo-liberal agenda.
Despite the lack of success in the protests, this was simply a dress rehearsal. It is used to pave the way for a large-scale campaign to undermine Russia’s stability and compromise its statehood.
It seems that the ramping up of the destabilization attempts is scheduled for September 2021, – the period of the Russian general election that will include the next legislative election and the election of 11 governors. The liberal opposition has already proven that it is ready to even sacrifice children in order to achieve the ambitions of its sponsors. If the Russian government does not employ preventive measures, these people will easily find large support from Russia’s geopolitical opponents. Next time staged anti-government protests can ‘accidentally coincide’ with industrial disasters, cyberattacks, and even terrorist attacks.
Kremlin has to act decisively on social media platforms. If this situation is allowed to continue, it would grow to an extent which will be difficult to control. Nip it from the bud!
Agree – the UK saw them being used in 2011 for rebels coordinating the London riots.
But it needs to not suppress freedom speech and blog forums but more using them to organize revolts for radical activity.
It’s straight out of the Hong Kong color revolution playbook.
They need to start infiltrating the telegram and signal groups ASAP. Plant some undercovers to rally the idiots on these platforms to ID them will probably be a good idea too.
Monitor the schools and universities, much of the radicalization in HK came from teachers abusing parent’s implicit trust and filling the youth’s mind with illusions, lies and western narritives.
The Social media echo chamber then reinforces the minds of the youth and fools with false sense of purpose and solidarity. They’ll be brainwashed into child soldiers.
Investigate the finances of the nuland cookies’ supply chain. Always follow the money.
Just as the yeltsin generation now accepts that they were sold down the river save for vlad, this generation of fools and morons will not learn until they’re in their 40’s. Don’t let history repeat, learn from our mistakes and break the cycle now.
Many people are aware that the nickname for Vladimir is Volodea of Vova. Western insistence to call Putin Vlad is a Bernaysian PR trick. It keeps in their minds the association with Vlad the Impaler ‘Dracula’ the Vampire. Vlad is actually the nickname for Vladislav (Vlad the Impaler was actually Vladislav III).
Interesting. Never thought of that. They never stop trying to demonize Russia.
Universities definitely have to be monitored. I saw on Facebook that the Erasmus students’ network in Moscow has posted pro-LGBT posts. These are the type of programs that are used to twist minds of the youth.
Swordfish
Well spoken, although I doubt that the situation could escalate to the point it would be difficult to control. Even so, Russian liberals, supported by NGO’s, will go all the way to cause internal strife.
So far we have seen Soros style tactics, a minority trying to represent and control the majority. What is troubling is the fact that these pro-Navalny “demonstrations” in Moscow and St.Petersburg, have seen the presence of kids, teenagers and young people, who are easy to manipulate. True, their numbers have not been great, but NGO’s and liberals will do their utmost to increase their numbers. They will have eight months to do this. However, the Russian Government will also have eight months to counter any subversive activities. I think they should start by expelling all those NGO’s who actively engage in subversion and sabotage.
New laws have to be passed and they should be strictly implemented. I hope that Russia would study and follow what the Chinese govt. did to put an end to HK protests. Babysitting doesn’t go well with these hooligans. Taking strict legal action can easily end their craziness. In the long term, Kremlin has to implement an education+propaganda program to inform the public and to counter the liberal disinformation and propaganda campaign
I don’t understand this claim that because TikTok is used for the liberal regime change propaganda, China is to blame; any more than a car manufacturer is to blame if said regime changers plaster said car with stickers and posters.
That said, it’s as obvious as it can be that next election will see the Amerikastani Empire claim Navalny – or more likely his wife – “won” and is the “legitimate president of Russia”, and try to pull a Guano on it. That Navalny has a 2% approval rating and can’t win an election to the post of sewer inspector in chief makes no difference, just as the fact that he’s a racist wannabe genocidaire makes no difference. We aren’t talking about facts or what the Russian people think. We’re talking the Amerikastani propaganda fed to the citizens of the Imperialist and its colonies from Canadastan to Australistan, who imagine that Navalny is a “patriot”, a “democrat”, and the “greatest opponent of Putin” instead of a traitor derided as a “Soros pig” by almost all Russians. And after declaring him president, of course, Amerikastan and its colonies will simply declare any and all Putin government decisions “illegal” and “invalid”.
The only way to prevent that from happening will be to openly put Navalny on trial now, adopt a ruthless attitude towards the Quisling liberal fifth column, including liquidations if necessary, shut down their media, and impose, ironically , the same dictatorship that the Amerikastani Empire claims exists in Russia.
Does anyone think the same Putin who didn’t invade Ukranazistan in 2014 but got blamed for it anyway is up to it?
No. This will not happen. Because Russis is too big and too much leverage against the West to pull up such a Guaido move. You can do that with smaller countries like Belarus or Venezuela. But not Russia. I think its too much fear porn here.
Agreed. They may try but all those in Russia know it is the old school nationalist wing of the KGB that backed, and still backs, Vlad. It would take a total fool to mess with them (okay there are a lot of those around, lol).
Please don’t use “Vlad” as a nickname, ms. TRM: It is a Rumanian (Latinate/Romantic) name’, not Slavic at all — and brings in associations the Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula).
Tiktok outside of China is run by a different organisation, sits on different servers and don’t really answer to China. Also tiktok is owned by a bunch of western funds and investors. Its primary aim right now is to appease uncle Sam for it is their biggest market outside of China. Its just not in their interest to do anything against US.
While southfront is great for covering these events from a different angle sometimes it really misses the mark.
This time they put 2 + 2 together and got 5.
Navalny was released from the side of the regime to leave the country and make a circus that was made through the Western media. Everything was done according to plan. Why? Because it is known that the people are fed up of Putin’s promises and the corrupt United Russia. In the same way, Navalny was returned and immediately arrested to start the show. A show that the regime and its Western partners need in order to blow up the protests of true patriots, which have been discused on the russian alternative networks for already a year.
was released by “one of the Kreml towers”..which is doing all this against Putin…and the so-called patriotic opposition plays “the second fiddle” in this attempt to overthow him for the benezit of the west
Kremlin towers……???
Putin had until this summer a super-presidential power that he than shared with the DUMA which is as corrupt as the US Congress or the EU Parliament. The red, yellow and black colors of the progress revolution. Now people of Russia can not blame him for the situation in the country and he will try through amendments in the Constitution to stay on top again. Are there no other capable people in Russia? Hard to imagine, but for NWO he is doing a good job, why than to change him. Whenever reality shows up on the field, they step up attacks on him, ride him on the Night Wolves motorcycle, or play a movie with a naked torso and a tiger. The statistics say otherwise. The situation has improved just enough for Russia not to go any further, and for the people to have bread to eat, but in fact the wealth and human capacities of that country have not been quality and completely used. Who do they keep these riches for?
You’re the type of ‘sixth-column’ patriot who thinks that you can do more than VVP does.
You can claim that things would’ve been better if done otherwise but a country cannot be run that way
I would tell you in Serbian what I think about your comment, and than ask what you gave so far for Russia and Russians, where you or your relatives were, on which front line, but then Saker would delete my comment. So I will write meekly and humble….
You shall not make for yourself any idol, nor bow down to it or worship it.
2.God commandment
or from a revolutionary point of view
In Goethe’s thinking the very same concept of productivity that is central in Spinoza as well as in Hegel and Marx, was a cornerstone. “The divine,” he says, “is effective in that which is alive, but not in that which is dead. It is in that which is becoming and evolving, but not in that which is completed and rigid. That is why reason, in its tendency toward the divine, deals only with that which is becoming, and which is alive, while the intellect deals with that which is completed and rigid, in order to use it.”
Your attitude does not belong to them either.
You have to ask yourself where you belong?
“I don’t understand this claim that because TikTok is used for the liberal regime change propaganda, China is to blame; any more than a car manufacturer is to blame if said regime changers plaster said car with stickers and posters…”
… or any more than Toyota is to blame for all the landcruisers ridden around Iraq and Syria by friendly neighborhood ISIS types.
“We’re talking the Amerikastani propaganda fed to the citizens of the Imperialist and its colonies from Canadastan to Australistan, who imagine that Navalny is a “patriot”, a “democrat”, and the “greatest opponent of Putin” instead of a traitor derided as a “Soros pig” by almost all Russians…”
Yes, the average Australistan lemming really isn’t very bright, takes everything from the syndicated media as gospel truth, and actually believes that Navalny is the “Russian opposition leader”. Very much in the same vein as “interim president of Venezuela” Guiado – yet another CIA-sponsored random dude who crawled out from under some rock.
“The only way to prevent that from happening will be to openly put Navalny on trial now, adopt a ruthless attitude towards the Quisling liberal fifth column, including liquidations if necessary, shut down their media, and impose, ironically , the same dictatorship that the Amerikastani Empire claims exists in Russia. ”
Probably not the only way, in fact Russia probably isn’t hanging out for prescriptive advice from random armchair experts on how they should manage their internal affairs. China handled the Hong Kong fracas in their own way, most likely Russia will too. Meanwhile the USA is barreling headlong towards its own unique brand of internal strife.
Don’t have a cow, man – they’ve got this, dude.
Don’t call Aussies “lemmings”. Lemmings are native to Norway, not Australia!
Cf: “Donald Duck in Norway” by Disney’s Carl Barks.
Na! Aussies are sheep, and we lived off the sheep’s back for generations; just ask our pollies or check the old one shilling coin.
Now the Aussie sheep are also related to the Scottish Haggis whose two left legs are shorter than their right legs so as to let them reside on the bens and the glens in the north, but put them on a level playing field and they can only run around in ever diminishing circles until they vanish up, well, I think you know where.
Of course there are also those terrible ‘drop bears’ that fall out of gum trees to scare the unwitting tourists, but ‘drop bears’ are mainly found to be imbibing the local Bundaberg rum, and of course never forget those pollies who suffer from kangaroos in the top paddock, and frequently appear to feed the chooks, with their daily spin on world events, or the latest corona virus lockdowns. And I guess that is why one pollies threatened to shirtfront VV Putin (Tony Abbott) but his treasurer mate Peter Costello talked him out of it. (Abbott & Costello). It could only happen in Australia.
The reality is that most of the world is full of people who simply sit in front of the idiot box and become totally mesmerised, And mothers find it to be one of the best ‘babysitters’ available and allows them to catch up with their ‘home duties’ after a hard day’s work, which all started off with that ‘recession we had to have’.
Its worth noting 100 years on an inversion has happened – the West is in chaos while Russia is stable and solid as a rock.
Lenin and Stalin must be laughing.
Nothing to see or read here for it was little more than kids on spring break looking for some excitement, as the one 14-year-old girl said to come for it would be a blast, kids do stupid things every generation does it so why all the earth-shattering nonsense about a nonexistent color revolution.!!!
The point of Navalny is not regime change but to make noise.
He got himself poisoned end of August 2020 right before the Russian regional elections in Sept. 2020.The Western MSM news cycle, at that time, was all about him. There was almost nothing about the election nor Putin’s party’s victory.
Now that legislative elections are due in Sept 2021, I wonder what stunt he wilI pull this time…..(although I doubt it will be poisoning, He’s already done it twice and it’s getting old, even for the unimaginative Western propagandists)
Third time’s a charm.
Actually he has suffered 3 “chemical” incidents in total:
In April 2017 he was disquslified to be a candidate for president and was then “attacked” by green paint. (“Zelyonka” attack)
In July 2019 he was poisoned prior to Moscow city Duma elections. (There were some anti government rallies as it was alleged that not all candidates were allowed to register).
And now again in 2020.
Apart from calling attention to himself he doesn’t seem to have any political traction..
@Serbian Girl, Navalny actually does have a program, its mass lustration. Privatization of oil/gas companies, small government ‘to fight corruption’, which results in mass firing of a lot of workers, that results in utter chaos in a country like Russia. As control would be less. So he is indeed a neoliberal.
@In general, Russia should diversify its city system, Moscow and Saint Petersburg are neoliberal hubs that can turn against the govt. They should look for a more polycentric system like the USA. Some cities are booming like Krasnodar, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod. But they should do more. The govt is indeed doing a lot of things in the right direction in this regard since years, with Winter Olympics in Sochi and the FIFA World Cup in Russia. But this process should go steadily.
Green paint?!?? Oh nooooo! Anything but that!!!!!
Most people in the West could not give a damn about Navalny. He is irrelevant. The efforts to get him to Berlin and make him “Man of the Hour” backfired. The work done by Putin and Lavrov over decades has changed the image of Russia in the West. Russia appears rational – the West appears irrational.
It is rabid hysteria in Western Politico-Media and the populace sees through it. Troll factories keep feeding the 77 Battalion pay-ops on “Social Media” and Comments pages but it goes nowhere.
Twitter should be banned. It is a polarising propaganda outlet. Facebook should be demolished with its WhatsApp and Google should be de-platformed for the way it destroyed YouTube.
Time for new platforms. EU sold the pass. It could have created a different eco-system but ignored all developments. Russia has VKontakte and EU has nothing.
As important to the West Navalny is, so important is he for the regime in Moscow, to vent people’s anger. Especially national currents that are hard to control. Baraba and his 40 bandits are everywhere where the real masses are expected to rise, he is perfect Trojanic horse to break the energy of the existing dissatisfaction with the corruption of United Russia rule.The Liberal Party with Zirinovski is not a danger to them, and they control a large part of the communist bourgeoisie. In fact it is in the West’s interest to attack Putin, in their interest that he rules Russia. As long as Putin is there, will be also Elvira/Alexei and Sreder. And purchased citizenships and forgiveness of debts to the oligarchy, and no arrest or trial of the oligarchy. Attacking Putin, a lot of people gather around him while see him as someone who opposes the West, what is one big absurd. He works with the West and calls on the West to work even more closely.
These are great points, and worthy of full attentive thinking.
In America at the height of forced lockdowns when everybody is feeling the horn of the economic agendas against their own neck, the racial riots broke out in every city, and even in tiny little places too, where not even one person is dark skinned. The racial riots were everywhere and very insane, with truckloads of fireworks being set off at night, keeping people wide awake all night long. With this orchestrated and well funded chaos happening how can anybody hope to have their own voice heard?—it won’t be heard, any you’ll likely get publicly beaten and humiliated.
Everything is for sale for those with money. So called *color revolution* is a weapon, and if you have the wealth of a state it’s available to buy like anything else. So why not? People only think in black and white, and don’t comprehend anything between and in fact prefer not to. Keep the slaves stupid, give them enemies to hate.
If the people from the budget pay the state services, for whom do they work? For the “out of controlled chaos order” or for the prosperity of the people and the state? Are they preserving or destroying the Constitution? What services are so powerful that they can do something like that? Civilian or military? Why is the army still national in Israel f.e., and in Russia it has planned become professional – for money – destroying the unity of the Motherland? Who is ordering these successful NWO transitions and transformations, and are the so-called critics on alternative media only a part of the game and amortization of the people’s anger?
This is ‘black propaganda’ channeled through ‘true patriots’.
Thanks much Saker for the enlightenment.
Just as I thought. I can only surmise that Biden & gang are already at it.
And if I remember my history well, it is not like the West hasn’t tried it before, and back then were successful, some hundred years ago, when this Lenin guy was sent in from the West to start a lot of trouble for the Russian regime of the day.
On 10 of november, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev (pretty much complete drunkard at this point with more or less no connection to the reality) died, leaving Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chairman, as his successor. Andropov was considered by the West to be one of its smartest and most dangerous opponents.
At the end of 1999, Boris Eltsin (another drunkard with rather limited connection to the reality) has resigned the post, leaving Vladimir Vladimirovitch, the former FSB chairman, as his successor.
They say that the history doesn’t repeat itself, but often rhymes.
The western oligarhia either failed to recognize, or refuse to believe, that now they’re dealing with Andropov enhanced version 2.0.
What we have here is the full power of the oligarchy against Putin’s Russia. Mr MAGA, threw a monkey wrench in the globalist machine wanting to bring back the troops and re-industrializing the place. There is no way the oligarchs want to pay good wages!
It is cheaper to throw online candy at the foolish and producing a fake “mass opposition” than to invest years and billions of dollars trying to surpass the hyper sonic deterrence in Prussian’s hands. The Russian oligarchs/globalists will be more than happy to sell off all of Russian’s assets for a few pennies.
However, their checker enthusiasts face a master chess player.
We don’t want Russia becoming the great whore of the West. Russian government don’t want implementing measures to safeguard its sovereignty. They are afraid of more sanctions. They wrongly believe that behaving meekly and being complacent will make the west feel compassionate and sanction will dessapear.
The parroting of ‘west’ propaganda that Russians are ‘scared’, ‘afraid’ of sanctions, of Navalny, of ‘democracy’, of ‘free speech’, is ridiculous.
It really is beyond time for quoting the BBC as a reliable source of ‘news’.
The BBC is well known to any UK citizen with brains to be a rabbit warren of the security services. It does not serve the UK people, it serves the global elite and has done ever since it participated in the 9/11 scam.
Its never ending lying about the Middle East make it a joke where accurate reporting of breaches of international law are concerned.
The same about Ukraine. Now it is doing the US’ bidding in Russia.
The BBC does not represent the British People, it is a rentier landlord demanding tributes from every single UK household with a TV.
“The Russian branch of the BBC said that protests took place in 122 towns and cities across the country.”
There you go, quite idiotic to include any information, news or statistic’s from this source, everything will be soaked in lies. Sorry…