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Washington Post zitiert Jan Matti Dollbaum
Washington Post, June 11, 2020
How the clearing of Lafayette Square made the White House look a bit more like the Kremlin
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In Russia, restrictions on protests near presidential residences, including the Kremlin, were included in a 2004 law under President Vladimir Putin, who appeared determined to prevent a repeat of major protests that occurred there during the early 1990s.
When anti-Putin protests spread across the country after strongly disputed legislative elections in 2011, access to areas around the Kremlin was temporarily cut off entirely.
The protest-free zone around the Kremlin was soon replicated elsewhere, with regional administrations declaring more public spaces off limits. Some activists were put on show trials to stymie opposition and harsher punishments were introduced.
Researcher Jan Matti Dollbaum said there are still significant differences between Russia at the time and the United States today — including institutions that continue to uphold the rule of law in the U.S. But he cautioned that — just as in Russia — erecting physical barriers around seats of power could act to suppress political dissent.
“One idea behind [the Russian] regulations is to constrain the act of protest itself, to sort of avoid these symbolic pictures,” said Dollbaum, who has researched Russian protest movements at the German Research Center for East European Studies.
But the regulations, he added, are also often deliberately complex and difficult to decipher, handing authorities justification to crack down on protesters who may unknowingly violate the opaque rules.
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