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The Russian Revolution? Is It a Russian War?
The Kremlin has used tactics of gradually unpacking the two-kit of violence to put pressure on civil society. The last people who go to the front lines in Russia are the riot police, the FSB and everybody who is involved in securing domestic law and order. I think that the Ukrainian experience is colored by success of Maidan. And then Ukrainians did it in 2004 during the Orange Revolution and in Maidan. They believed that the Russians should do the same. It takes a split in the elite for this type of revolutions to be successful.