Paul
Goble
Staunton, September 20 – Novyye izvestiya reports today that
there were two major demonstration efforts in Russian cities last weekend, protests
against the showing of the film Mathilda and demonstrations calling for more
laws to protect animals from abuse and mistreatment (newizv.ru/news/society/20-09-2017/107-2-s-takim-schetom-protivniki-matildy-ustupili-zaschitnikam-zhivotnyh).
The former attracted enormous
attention in the media, while the latter barely was noted in either the
government outlets or independent ones even though a rough count of the numbers
taking part showed that 107,000 people took part in animal rights actions while
only about 2,000 did in the Mathilda ones.
“Perhaps,”
Novyye izvestiya suggested, “the media are waiting until the animal rights
activists arm themselves with the same methods that ‘the banner carriers’
supporting Poklonskaya, Shevkunov and Chaplin are now using!?”
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