Litwin
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the Free World have to understand that every average "orthodox" Muscovite is an imperialist (from Navalny/Yeltsin to Dugin/Putin) , that will never change. The only way to political normalization of this territory is independence & self-determination of selected regional oblasts and national republics
Volkov — the right-hand man of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny — recently described activists who demand Russia’s decolonization. His description came in response to similar comments by President Vladimir Putin in which the president also lambasted those seeking greater autonomy for Russia’s national republics.
It’s remarkable how Putin and a representative of his main political opponent — Navalny — can see eye to eye. Both have nothing but scorn for decolonial activists. While Putin palms the movement off as a plot orchestrated by Western intelligence and bluffs about the alleged unity of the Russian people, Volkov belittles decolonial activists as a laughingstock, suggesting that their aspirations for independence only foster the regime’s rhetoric about the West allegedly seeking the dismemberment of Russia.
As Russia's most prominent opposition force, which aspires to represent the whole nation, Navalny’s supporters love to repeat the thesis that the war in Ukraine is “Putin’s war” and that the Russian people are its victims. Maria Pevchikh, the chairwoman of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) board of directors, has even equated the regime’s authoritarianism with domestic abuse. According to this logic, however, Volkov and some of Navalny’s supporters are guilty of victim-blaming when they accuse ethnic minority activists of provoking the regime’s wrath.
In reality, Volkov expressed an opinion that is common within Russia’s liberal opposition, which does not take the decolonization movement seriously and belittles it through insults. The fact is that liberals who oppose Putin continue to support Moscow’s hegemony over ethnic non-Russians from the national republics.
By claiming that a positive future for Russia can be achieved by simply removing Putin, the liberal opposition overlooks the imperial-colonial foundation of the Russian state. While tycoon and Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for example, claims to support the real (rather than fictitious) federalization of Russia, he has also said that he would fight to stop the North Caucasus republics seeking independence.
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Volkov — the right-hand man of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny — recently described activists who demand Russia’s decolonization. His description came in response to similar comments by President Vladimir Putin in which the president also lambasted those seeking greater autonomy for Russia’s national republics.
It’s remarkable how Putin and a representative of his main political opponent — Navalny — can see eye to eye. Both have nothing but scorn for decolonial activists. While Putin palms the movement off as a plot orchestrated by Western intelligence and bluffs about the alleged unity of the Russian people, Volkov belittles decolonial activists as a laughingstock, suggesting that their aspirations for independence only foster the regime’s rhetoric about the West allegedly seeking the dismemberment of Russia.
As Russia's most prominent opposition force, which aspires to represent the whole nation, Navalny’s supporters love to repeat the thesis that the war in Ukraine is “Putin’s war” and that the Russian people are its victims. Maria Pevchikh, the chairwoman of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) board of directors, has even equated the regime’s authoritarianism with domestic abuse. According to this logic, however, Volkov and some of Navalny’s supporters are guilty of victim-blaming when they accuse ethnic minority activists of provoking the regime’s wrath.
In reality, Volkov expressed an opinion that is common within Russia’s liberal opposition, which does not take the decolonization movement seriously and belittles it through insults. The fact is that liberals who oppose Putin continue to support Moscow’s hegemony over ethnic non-Russians from the national republics.
By claiming that a positive future for Russia can be achieved by simply removing Putin, the liberal opposition overlooks the imperial-colonial foundation of the Russian state. While tycoon and Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for example, claims to support the real (rather than fictitious) federalization of Russia, he has also said that he would fight to stop the North Caucasus republics seeking independence.
Why are Putin and ‘Team Navalny’ in Lockstep When it Comes to Decolonization? - The Moscow Times
Opinion | “Freaks” was how Leonid Volkov — the right-hand man of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny — recently described activists who demand Russia’s decolonization.
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