"Truce: Great Water Has Come to the Chum." An interview with sociologist Viktor Vakhstein on how the pandemic changed the rhetoric of the authorities and the opposition in Russia

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The coronavirus has become an important element of political rhetoric for both the Russian government and the opposition. At the beginning of the epidemic, officials convinced people of the need for quarantine measures, but before the Victory Parade and the day of voting on amendments to the Constitution, despite the increase in the number of infected people in the country, the president began to say that the peak had already passed. For the opposition, the authorities have become "an accomplice of the epidemic." Meduza's special correspondent Andrei Pertsev spoke with Viktor Vakhshtein, a well-known Russian sociologist and Dean of the Philosophical and Sociological Faculty of the RANEPA Institute of Social Sciences, about how the language of political discussions in Russia has changed in 2020.

Source: https://meduza.io/feature/2020/07/04/peremirie-v-chum-prishla-bolshaya-voda

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