The Kremlin sends a message.
. Given its tight control over the country’s political, economic, and media institutions, the government can afford to let its opponents take to the streets now and then.against a Moscow rally over the weekend. Monitors estimate that 1,373 people were arrested at protest over government rigging of upcoming local elections, and that more than 150 remain in custody. Police beat protesters with batons and violently arrested many. A number of marchers reported broken limbs.
The crackdown began last week amid a series of protests leading up to Saturday’s march. Police arrested some of the rally’s leaders, including the country’s most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny. Navalny was hospitalized on Sunday after suffering a severe allergic reaction.
The government’s heavy-handed response was particularly surprising given the relatively modest target of these protests. Saturday’s march was the largest of a series of demonstrations over the last few weeks after election authorities barred a“This was not people protesting to bring down the regime,” notes Mark Galeotti, a Russia analyst at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, who points out that the City Duma doesn’t actually have all that much power anyway.
For Galeotti, the authorities’ “out of proportion” response “says something about decisions having been made in the Kremlin. This was definitely the state wanting to make a point.” What might that point be? It may be that, after a number of recent concessions, the Kremlin is done compromising with the opposition. The government recently suspended plans to
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