Russia's Protest Movement
Written by Kevin Rothrock On 5 October 2012 @ 17:27 pm | Comments Disabled
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[1]Anti-Putin protest, Russia. Flickr/Freedom House (CC BY 2.0).
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Russia's political opposition has struggled to define itself in the aftermath of widely criticized elections for the national parliament and presidency. Over the past year, Global Voices’ RuNet Echo [4] extensively covered the response to those elections: mass protests, which constituted some of the greatest social turbulence to visit Russia in more than a decade. Those explosions of collective action led many Russians to conclude that they had “woken up in a new country.”
But had they? Can nations change overnight, or was this a mere flight of fancy?
RuNet Echo is interested precisely in these questions, and we seek answers in the arena where the opposition is most active: the Russian Internet. In an environment where formal politics is heavily controlled and pluralist competition is thoroughly constrained, the digital disputes occurring within the opposition are in fact some of Russia's most important civic debates.
Moreover, on October 20 and 21, 2012, several prominent members of the anti-Kremlin protest movement will conduct a national election for a grand “Coordinating Council” to lead Russia's opposition. This represents a potentially decisive moment in the self-identification and ossification of a social movement that began nearly a year ago.
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2012
08 Oct – Russia: Winners & Losers in Round 1 of the Opposition's Debates [10]
05 Oct – Russia: The Opposition Coordinating Council's Great Debates, Day 1.0 [11]
25 Sep – Russia: Writers Put Down Pens to Stand Atop Soap Boxes [12]
21 Sep – Russia: Activist Journalists or Bolshevik Bloggers? [13]
18 Sep – Russia: Ksenia Sobchak's Civil Platform Candidacy [14]
16 Sep – Russia: Forecasts for the Protest Movement's Elections [15]
15 Sep – Russia: Protest Movement Struggles with Keeping Itself Democratic [16]
09 Sep – Russia: Top Opposition Blogger Investigated for Ethnic Extremism [17]
01 Sep – Russia: Activist Jailed on Trumped Up Drug Charges [18]
28 Aug – Russia: Protesters Aim for Elected Office [19]
20 Aug – Russia: Zombies Versus the State in Omsk [20]
08 Aug – Russia: Pussy Riot Doomed by its own Supporters? [21]
04 Aug – Russia: Political Ambitions for Most Influential Blogger? [22]
11 Jun – Russia: United Russia Deputy Wants to Sue Navalny for 60 Billion Rubles [23]
05 Jun – Russia: Oppositionists Ponder Putin's Legacy [24]
31 May – Russia: #OccupySeliger? [25]
18 May – Russia: The RuNet's Enduring Tomatoes & Tusovki [26]
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[10] Russia: Winners & Losers in Round 1 of the Opposition's Debates: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/10/08/russia-winners-losers-in-round-1-of-the-oppositions-debates/
[11] Russia: The Opposition Coordinating Council's Great Debates, Day 1.0: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/10/05/russia-the-opposition-coordinating-councils-great-debates-day-1-0/
[12] Russia: Writers Put Down Pens to Stand Atop Soap Boxes: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/25/russia-writers-put-down-their-pens-to-stand-atop-their-soap-boxes/
[13] Russia: Activist Journalists or Bolshevik Bloggers?: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/21/russia-activist-journalists-or-bolshevik-bloggers/
[14] Russia: Ksenia Sobchak's Civil Platform Candidacy: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/18/russia-ksenia-sobchaks-civil-platform-candidacy/
[15] Russia: Forecasts for the Protest Movement's Elections: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/16/russia-forecasts-for-the-protest-movements-elections/
[16] Russia: Protest Movement Struggles with Keeping Itself Democratic: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/15/russia-protest-movement-struggles-with-keeping-itself-democratic/
[17] Russia: Top Opposition Blogger Investigated for Ethnic Extremism: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/09/russia-top-opposition-blogger-is-investigated-for-ethnic-extremism/
[18] Russia: Activist Jailed on Trumped Up Drug Charges: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/01/russia-activist-jailed-on-trumped-up-drug-charges/
[19] Russia: Protesters Aim for Elected Office: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/08/28/russia-protesters-aim-for-elected-office/
[20] Russia: Zombies Versus the State in Omsk: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/08/20/russia-zombies-versus-the-state-in-omsk/
[21] Russia: Pussy Riot Doomed by its own Supporters?: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/08/08/russia-pussy-riot-doomed-by-its-own-supporters/
[22] Russia: Political Ambitions for Most Influential Blogger?: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/08/04/russia-navalny-in-the-cloud/
[23] Russia: United Russia Deputy Wants to Sue Navalny for 60 Billion Rubles: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/06/11/russia-united-russia-deputy-wants-to-sue-navalny-for-60-billion-rubles/
[24] Russia: Oppositionists Ponder Putin's Legacy: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/06/05/russia-oppositionists-ponder-putins-legacy/
[25] Russia: #OccupySeliger?: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/31/russia-occupyseliger/
[26] Russia: The RuNet's Enduring Tomatoes & Tusovki: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/18/russia-the-runets-enduring-tomatoes-tusovki/
[27] Russia’s Bid For International Prestige: A White Elephant?: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/19/russias-bid-for-international-prestige-a-white-elephant/
[28] Russians See Themselves in Turkish Protests: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/19/russians-see-themselves-in-turkish-unrest/
[29] Vladimir Putin: Lord of the (Super Bowl) Rings: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/18/vladimir-putin-lord-of-the-super-bowl-rings/
[30] Orphaned in US, SOPA Finds Home in Russia: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/14/orphaned-in-us-sopa-finds-home-in-russia/
[31] More Violence for Russia's Gays, Supporters: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/14/more-violence-for-russias-gays-supporters/
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