Alina Polyakova on the Protests in Russia
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It was the second weekend of major protests in Russia, as Russians across the country took to the streets to protest the detention of Alexei Navalny. In a major show of force, the police rounded up a very large number of people and there were a number of beatings. To bring us up to speed on the situation in Russia, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Alina Polyakova, president of the Center for European Policy Analysis. They talked about whether the protests are dwindling or gathering strength, and whether that's really about the Russian security services or the 30-degree-below-0 weather. They talked about Putin's game plan, Navalny's game plan and where this is all heading over the next few months and years.
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| 1:09.0 | The regime has been very, very careful not to overstep into total Tiananmen Square style |
| 1:18.0 | repression. |
| 1:19.0 | But I think they're going to have to face that choice very, very soon and that will probably |
| 1:24.8 | be as they're probably also thinking a turning point in one way or the other either towards |
| 1:29.7 | Russia becoming a full on dictatorship, frankly, versus what it is today or whether that becomes |
| 1:37.7 | the point that mobilizes those millions of people than Navalny has been trying to mobilize |
| 1:43.3 | for a very long time. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the Law Fair podcast February 2nd Groundhog Day, 2021. |
| 1:56.0 | It was a second weekend of major protests in Russia across the country as Russians took |
| 2:03.3 | to the streets to protest the detention of Alexei Navalny. |
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