Analysis: The arrest of Ivan Golunov on bogus drug charges sparked intense protests against the menace of the corrupt security state
Alexander Baunov is a senior fellow in Carnegie Moscow Center and editor-in-chief of Carnegie.ru.
That was a big mistake on their part. In fact, it was Golunov’s unassuming modesty that propelled the kind of protests that Russia has not seen for years. Despite the grim information he uncovered, Golunov is not one of Russia’s classic “opposition journalists.” If one of the threads he was pulling at led to Putin, Golunov would name him for sure, but he is not in the business of unmasking the whole of Russia’s ruling regime, as some others are. I have known Golunov for 15 years but I don’t believe that we ever talked about the big topics: Putin, the regime or democracy.
Russia’s drug business has become a police extortion tool. Alleged drug possession is now a way that officials can extract a bribe, confiscate a business, force someone to emigrate or simply to keep silent. .
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