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https://t.me/kagarlitsky/1010
(translated with https://www.deepl.com/translator )
About the bridge
THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) WAS CREATED AND (OR) DISSEMINATED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA OUTLET PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT.
The Russian state new-speak has been enriched with a new term. We already have "cotton", "negative growth", "goodwill gesture", "regrouping"... Now we have "incident". It's when an explosion destroys a critical strategic object - the most expensive and most guarded bridge on the planet.
From a military point of view, the meaning of what happened is more or less clear. There will be supply problems. And not only in Crimea. Someone will solve these problems. However, it is not excluded that by the time they find a solution, there will be new troubles, even more serious.
But apart from military strategy, there is also economics and politics.
From the moment of its inauguration, the Crimean bridge was not only a strategic but also a symbolic object, the main achievement of the Putin era and material proof that in our country, even against the background of total theft and inefficiency, it is still possible to achieve practical results if you invest 400-500 percent of the technologically necessary funds.
Now the bridge is out of service and a commission is already being set up to study the causes and consequences of the "incident". I have no doubt that interested people are right now preparing estimates of the funds to be allocated for restoration work, and potential contractors are already preparing suitcases with money to be taken to the appropriate offices in order to get a valuable order.
The only question is not to make a mistake with the office. After all, the location of these offices and their inhabitants may change in the near future. And more than once.
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I don't know if that translation is 100% - RT said:
'He had been in pre-trial detention since October 2022, having been accused of “publicly justifying terrorism” over a video about the Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Bridge, in which he stated that it was “understandable” that Kiev would want to destroy the structure.' - https://www.rt.com/russia/588928-russian-sociologist-justifying-terrorism-released/
So maybe he uses that word in the video. But even then you can portray something as 'understandable' without necessarily seeking to justify it, and the prosecution's interpretation seem tenuous to say the least:
'Prosecutors have insisted that Kagarlitsky “discredited the state authorities,” stating that a psychological and linguistic examination of his video had found that it contained an “acknowledgement of the ideology of carrying out an explosion in order to discredit government authorities.”'
If they have evidence that he's an actual paid-up 'foreign agent', then produce it and try him on that basis. Otherwise it's bogus and they should apologise & compensate for the distress. IMHO of course...
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