Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has told reporters that the military will sponsor a major research of coups conducted through mass protest – so called ‘color revolutions’ – to prevent the situations that Russia faced in 1991 and 1993.
“Some people say that the military should not be involved in
political processes, some say the direct opposite. We will order
a study on the phenomenon of color revolutions and the military’s
role in their prevention,” Shoigu told the participants of
the Army-2015 political forum Friday.
“We have no right to allow the repetitions of the collapses
of 1991 and 1993,” he said. “How to do it is another
story, but it is clear that we must deal with the situation. We
must understand how to prevent this and how to teach the younger
generation so that it supported the calm and gradual development
of our country.”
The minister added that the consequences of color revolutions can
be now observed in many Arab nations and also in Serbia. He also
said that the Ukrainian crisis that started in 2014 also was
“a major tragedy in the row of color revolutions.”
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In March this year the head of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai
Patrushev promised that this body would develop a detailed plan
of action aimed at preventing color revolutions or any other
attempts of forceful change of lawfully elected authorities
through mass street protest. He also said that the Security
Council had prepared a list of proposed measures that could
negate the possible threat, including some steps against
“network protest activities” and propaganda work against
“romantic revolutionary stereotype.”
Also in March, President Vladimir Putin addressed the dangers of
color revolutions in his speech to the Interior Ministry.
“The extremists’ actions become more complicated,” he
said. “We are facing attempts to use the so called ‘color
technologies’ in organizing illegal street protests to open
propaganda of hatred and strife on social networks.”
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In the same month, the Interior Ministry drafted a bill
containing amendments to the law on rallies that covered car
protests and sit-ins. The ministry experts said that the move
would circumvent legal ambiguity in the interest of society as a
whole.
In November, Putin blasted color revolutions as a main tool used
by destructive forces in the geopolitical struggle. “In the
modern world, extremism is used as a geopolitical tool for
redistribution of spheres of interest. We can see the tragic
consequences of the wave of the so-called color revolutions, the
shock experienced by people in the countries that went through
the irresponsible experiments of hidden, or sometimes brute and
direct interference with their lives,” the Russian leader
said.
In January, a group of Russian conservative activists, uniting
war veterans, nationalist bikers and pro-Christian politicians
launched an “anti-Maidan” political movement in Moscow to oppose
any attempts to thwart the stable development of the country. Its
first rallies were held on the same days as some anti-government
protests and according to law enforcers the conservatives
outnumbered the pro-revolution activists by almost 10-fold.
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