The first casualty at Beslan

[CHIMO]

In this interview, Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent political commentator in Moscow, says that the Kremlin is determined to stay silent, and instead of answering criticism is drumming up its own support.

"The whole kind of propaganda machine of the Russian state, which controls most of our media and other ways of communication, has been activated. Also, people in Moscow have received unsolicited SMS messages on their phones from their company providers to come to the demonstration, and of course the provider companies have been under orders from the Kremlin to send these messages. Russian television is fully controlled by the government and the government has called on people to turn out. So, this is government-organised."

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