A very serious protest broke out – Gallyamov examined what was happening in Bashkiria

Protests took place in Bashkiria because local activist Fail Alsinov was sentenced to 4 years for “inciting ethnic hatred.” In fact, people are tired of Russian power.

About this Channel 24 said Russian opposition political strategist Abbas Gallyamov, noting that the real reason for the arrest of the activist was different. He spread anti-war opinions and separated the region from the “imperial center”. Such people are dangerous for the Kremlin.

Why special protests in Baymak

As Gallyamov noted, Baymak is a small town in the wilderness, where less than 20 thousand people live. This is precisely the “deep people” on which Putin’s power relies. It is very important that several thousand people came to the rallies. This is practically a significant part of the city's residents.

A loyal population lives there. If it has already gone out into the street, it means they got it. It's impossible to tolerate. At the heart of these protests is dissatisfaction with the policies of the federal center over the past decades. The regions are tired of Moscow's over-centralization. Moscow takes the “cream” for itself, pumps out resources, and leaves the regions with environmental problems, low wages, and degraded infrastructure, said Gallyamov.

Such discontent is gradually accumulating. Especially because Moscow has been suppressing the culture of the regions for years. And the war against Ukraine “fuelled” protest sentiments even more.

In Bashkortostan they are constantly pushing locals for contracts. To all this we add the arrest of the activist who spoke about this. People constantly feel stuck. That’s why there were such protests,” Gallyamov noted.

Protests in Bashkiria: briefly

• On January 15, protests began in the Russian city of Baymak due to the arrest of one of the local activists. Force was used against the protesters, but they tried to resist.
• One of the protesters generally called on the occupiers from Bashkiria, who went to fight against Ukraine, to return home to defend their own land.< /li>
• The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region commented on the protests in Bashkiria. They emphasized that the events in the region are not ordinary discontent, but public protest.