Thank God, this horror is not for ordinary good citizens, but for the "president" of Putin and his entourage. The idea of ??stability (in fact, the cemetery peace) is a personal "national idea" of Putin. For her, he can give all. Now, over his idea, the clouds again thickened, which markedly affected his faded New Year's performance. There is something from which to fall into despondency! - writes on the Observer Soviet dissident, Russian human rights activist, journalist and public figure Alexander Podrabinek.

Phantom of the Maidan is worried about a nervous president. And not in vain worried! Events in Iran, where people tired of a pseudo-religious dictatorship, took to the streets and squares of their cities, who are not mentally transferred to Russia now. "Than Russian spaces are worse than Persian?", Russian oppositionists think with enthusiasm. "Is the dictatorship in Iran falling, and the chain reaction of the protest will spread to us?", They think with horror in the Kremlin.

Panic, panic. Do not send Kadyrov's bandits to Iran to help the guards of the Islamic revolution? Do not you introduce troops to Iran to help the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Maybe a little bombed the Iranian opposition? What to do, what to do?.

The fall of the fundamentalist dictatorship in Iran would be a serious blow to the plans of the Kremlin. A Syrian friend of Putin, President Assad,. The Hamas movement (a terrorist organization not banned in Russia - A. ) Joint Iranian-Russian nuclear projects and assistance to Iran in equipping it with nuclear weapons. There will be an important link from the Kremlin-fueled anti-American alliance. There is why to look pale at the New Year's performance!.

The algorithm of the dictatorship in suppressing freedom is more or less the same everywhere. First of all - to limit the dissemination of information. In Iran, they hastily block the Internet messenger Telegram and the social network Instagram. The dictatorship hopes to leave the protesters without communication and coordination.

In Russia, on January 1 of this year, the law came into effect, according to which Internet messengers should be tied to the mobile phone numbers of users. It is clear, it will be easier to calculate those who agree on collective protests. It is not yet clear how this law will be implemented in practice, but it is already known that such a system is planned to be extended to all social networks and even online games. At the same time, you can only get a SIM card from a mobile operator by documenting your identity.

Since July 1, all communication operators and Internet companies will be required to store text messages, voice information, images, sounds and video within six months. All this they will be obliged to transfer to the special services on their first demand, without any judicial decisions.

But what about the Constitution of Russia, which protects the secrecy of correspondence? Article 23, part 2: "Everyone has the right to privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraphic and other communications. Restriction of this right is allowed only on the basis of a judicial decision ". What if the law contradicts the Constitution? Correctly, forget about the Constitution, as a nightmare! Moreover, communication operators, messengers and social networking administrations will be obliged to help the special services in decrypting content, and for refusing this, a fine of up to one million rubles is provided.

All this is taken against the background of the widely advertised fight against terrorism. In St. Petersburg, some crazy person made an explosion in the grocery supermarket - Putin declares it an act of terror. He publicly states that he instructed law enforcement agencies "to take prisoners without capturing anyone, to liquidate the bandits on the spot". So in the country the atmosphere of psychosis and legal nihilism. So the Kremlin justifies the adoption of unconstitutional laws restricting the rights and freedoms of citizens. And to continue to adopt such laws, new terrorist acts will be needed.

One they do not take into account. All their tricks for facilitating the surveillance of citizens are aimed at those who are hiding, acting secretly. All their measures to neutralize civilian activity are designed for the underground.

For decades, the Chekists and their after-schoolboys trained in exposing conspiracies. But when there is an open protest and people will go out into the street, no databases or Internet locks will help them. Being primitive people, people in power think that the more they adopt repressive laws and create fear in society, the more stable the regime established by them. All this is good only for the time being. It would be good for them to understand that the stronger the spring is compressed, the more force it will ever straighten up.