7-18-2017 The FSB has recreated what the KGB was unable to maintain: a network of repression, blackmail and cooptation. It is not alone as prosecutor of what the Putinist system sees as misdeeds: the Ministries of the Interior and Justice, together with the Investigation Committee, for example, share responsibility for that. There are clashes between the FSB and other security agencies. But the FSB, together with the Patrushev-chaired Security Council, is the main instrument of central control. Unlike its KGB predecessor, which answered to the Communist Party in Soviet times, the FSB works outside the formal political structures of Russia....
Russia’s Courts can be relied upon to sentence anyone deemed inconvenient by the authorities. Virtually all of the reported 1,720 persons arrested on June 12 for participation in the marches against corruption, for example, were sentenced to punishment of one sort or another, without even the pretense of adequate trials....
The sheer variety of unofficial and unacknowledged enforcement agencies and groups acting on behalf of the Kremlin, if not always on the instructions of President Putin, or on behalf of regional power structures, is striking. ...The Russian Orthodox Church is a key Kremlin ally with its own share of vigilantes. A Popular Front has been set up with a wide membership. It claims to pursue officially supported purposes as an expression of Russia-wide solidarity, but it seems to me at least, it lacks significant concrete political or propaganda effect. Cossack groups are active in some areas of the country in trying to enforce conservative values as the center would see them. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/07/18/mirror-justice-russia/
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5-23-20 A handful of under-equipped doctors and nurses have bravely spoken out, but this is unwise in Russia. Dr Alexander Shulepov posted a video of himself and a colleague in which he claimed his head medic had insisted he keep working despite contracting Covid-19. Two days later Shulepov seemed to recant his earlier ‘emotional’ claims in a second video.
Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, pictured - fell from a hospital window in Krasnoyarsk
Natalya Lebedeva, 48, (pictured) fell from a window to her death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital after colleagues said she was unfairly blamed for the spread of coronavirus at her clinic in Star city.
Dr. Alexander Shulepov fell from a hospital window, fracturing his skull. He had previously posted a video of himself and a colleague in which he claimed his head medic had insisted he keep working despite contracting Covid-19….
Newly purchased phones must include pre-loaded government-linked apps supposedly to track the sick, but these could be used to track political critics and dissidents, too.
Drones are already used to follow quarantine violators and could also easily keep free-thinkers under surveillance. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351269/As-Covid-19-runs-riot-Russia-Putin-lost-aura-invincibility-says-MICHAEL-BURLEIGH.html
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