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The leader of Russia's Communists has written an open letter to President Vladimir Putin bemoaning the arrests of his comrades and what he sees as the "unjustified brutality" of the police, warning that trouble may lie ahead.
In the missive, published on the party's official website, Gennady Zyuganov complained about the detentions of Communists following protests on September 20 and 25.
He described the arrests as "groundless" and "unlawful."
Last month,
the party organized two demonstrations against the results of September's parliamentary election, which,
for the first time, was held over multiple days. In Moscow, the Communists believe they were robbed of rightfully won seats by rigged
online voting and are campaigning to annul the results. Because of the tallied remote votes, the party failed to win a single seat in the capital's single-mandate districts,
despite several candidates topping the poll in the regular physical ballot.
Following the protests, many Communist politicians, supporters and members were detained by the authorities. The demonstrations were officially unauthorized by the Moscow government, but the party claims that it was simply a meeting of MPs with their voters, which by law does not require any approval.
"It is obvious that those who ordered and carried out these and other illegal actions are guided not by legal provisions and the interests of public safety, but by a poorly understood political expediency," Zyuganov wrote.
According to the veteran politician, the new three-day electoral format, combined with online voting, is "a nuclear bomb which could sooner or later blow up the stability of society that patriotic forces have been building for years."
Comment: Unsurprisingly these allegations aren't presented with any supporting facts. That's because it's likely that there aren't any - at least none that wouldn't also apply to Western diplomats. Since Russia has made it clear that it doesn't take too kindly to the breaching of diplomatic protocol, and particularly because in this instance these are serious criminal accusations, it's likely that there will be an interesting response from Moscow.
It's notable that such allegations would appear as the situation on the globe heats up with protests raging against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, with whistleblowers and undercover investigations revealing these crimes against humanity by governments and industry, in addition to the looming shortages of all kinds - including energy, products and food - that threaten to throw the lives of billions into unimaginable turmoil:
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