As Russia expands its presence in Africa and casts itself as a defender of the Global South, an internal colonization is unfolding within the country itself, and one of the state’s main tools of rule has become the targeted deprivation of civil and political rights. How does the Russian state create shadow doubles for active citizens? Why has it chosen to give up its monopoly on violence, and what is the advantage of outsourcing it? Arctida founder Ilya Shumanov addressed these questions at a seminar of the School of Civic Education.
From Monopoly on Violence to Monopoly on Exclusion
Ilya Shumanov on the construction of «enemy images,» the suppression of Indigenous peoples, and surrogates of civil society
