Przegląd Politologiczny, 2013, nr 2

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Od "arabskiej wiosny" do powstania "lajków" w kontekście współpracy Federacji Rosyjskiej i Unii Europejskiej
(Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM, 2013) Lakomy, Mirosław
2011 started with the Arab Spring and ended with Putin’s fall said one user of Russian equivalent of Facebook – Vkontake.ru. Around 3,000 more or less serious election frauds identified in the course of the elections to Russian parliament, the Duma, on December 4, 2011 triggered a revolt. Russians did what their predecessors in the authoritarian Arab states, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, had done. After a heated discussion in the new media they took to the streets in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The blogosphere created Alexei Navalny, who called „United Russia” a party of crooks and thieves. The strongest movement of resistance against the Putin – Medvedev tandem involved young people, whose campaign was named the uprising of ‘likers’.