Lubov Gapeeva J ournalism department Togliatti State University Brno , IP LDM , 2013

1. Media and active citizenship in Russia:variety of realities q LubovGapeeva Journalismdepartment Togliatti State University Brno, IP LDM, 2013

2. “Change agents” in RussiaTrends 2012-2013 the anniversary of the protest movements

3. Forms of protest: riot, march, rally, picket…

4. Forms of protest: new forms of the civic actions (“White ring”, walking, roving camp, Occupy Abay)

5. White ring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2I6hZdg4Ac

6. Forms of protest: the supervision on elections at various levels as independent mass movement (about 25,000 – 30,000 people)

7. The Coordination Council of the Russian extra-systemic opposition • Election of the Coordination Council of the Russian opposition – 20-22 October 2012 • The Coordinating Council was elected for one year • Web-elections (http://www.cvk2012.org/)– 81,325 voters • The Coordination Council – 45 members

8. The goals of the Coordination Council • Immediate release of political prisoners and stop the harassment against activists of the opposition • Secure real change of power - from the President of the Russian Federation to the municipal clerk • Reform of the judicial system and the law enforcement · Abolition of political censorship in the media • Reducing power of the President to the redistribution of power in favor of the Parliament • Lowering the threshold for representation in the State Duma, the political parties and the return of the right of forming electoral blocs • The return to the four-year term of the President and State Duma • The transition to the direct election of the members of the Federation Council

9. The change of the atmosphere in the society period of the new acts (Act of Dima Jakovlev, Foreign Agents Registration Act…) public debates and public reactions

10. Federal law of Russian Federation "On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation" (informally the Dima Yakovlev Law, or anti-Magnitsky law) The law in Russiathat defines sanctions against U.S. citizens involved in violations of the human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens. It creates a list of citizens who are banned from entering Russia, and also allows the government to freeze their assets and investments.

11. Federal law of Russian Federation "On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation" (informally the Dima Yakovlev Law, or anti-Magnitsky law) The law suspends the activity of politically active non-profit organisations which receive money from American citizens or organisations. It also bans citizens of the USA from adopting children from Russia. The law is described as a response to the Magnitsky bill in the USA, which places sanctions on Russian officials who were involved in a tax scandal exposed by Russian lawyer Serge Magnitsky against Russian officials; Magnistsky was later beaten and tortured by Russian officials.

12. According to the various sources now in Russia about 650,000-800,000 children and teenagers, who do not have parental care. In Russia about 2,000 orphanages.

13. The law to toughen penalties for violations at rallies

14. The bill about insulting the religious feelings and desecration

15. The bill that imposes tougher registration and reporting requirements on nongovernmental organizations that receive financing from foreign governments or other donors abroad from the beginning of March 2013 only in Saint-Petersburg Prosecutor's office verified 5,000 NGOs

16. The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the law on the return of criminal libel The law was adopted by vote of members of the "United Russia" and other factions of Duma voted against.

17. Federal Law “On Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development” kremlin.ru: “Given the modern level of development in mass communications and information technologies, parents and teachers are often unable to protect children from information that is negative or may be harmful to them. Too much brutality and violence in public media may give children a skewed perception of the world and contribute to wrong, sometimes even dangerous attitudes”

18. Media landscape in Russia

19. Media landscape in Russia • the growing influence of Internet-platforms • the national trends of internet-consuming: 55% of Russian citizens are users of Internet, 82% of them have accounts in social networks (http://wciom.ru Russian Public Opinion Research Center) • Russian political community “haunts” in Facebook • media experts forecast: Russian Parliament will continue the struggle for the influence in Runet • the course of the State on fundamental strengthening of state media

20. Media landscape in Russia • pressure on mass-media and attempts to censor (Act “The protection of children from information harmful to their health and development”) • documentary project “The term” (http://srok_doc.livejournal.com/) • “disrobing” programs about civic society activists

21. “The term” Idea: People are willing to go to the jail for their own beliefs. And where are these people leading us?

22. “The term” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupZW2Zcfwg http://lenta.ru/rubrics/lentadoc

23. Colta.ru: “Our website will exist without the help of the state, without the owners and investors, only at the expense of society. The site is completely independent and it promises to work well on its territory - the territory of culture and spirit of the times. This is an experiment. We do not know how it will end, but we damn interesting. We hope that it will be interesting to you”.

24. Media landscape in Russia Trend: the media project dedicated to civil initiativesor media present their own civil initiatives The project of the-village.ru “Parking Douche” http://specials.the-village.ru/pages/specials/parking It won the gold in the Mobile Advertising in the Festival "Cannes Lions". The project has already attracted the attention of the users and the media of America, Britain, Croatia, Libya, Japan, China and Israel. Having received many offers of partnership, the creators decided to make the application and the banner of global open source-solution - everyone will be able to install it on their site. Discovery channel: “God bless the folks at Moscow-based online newspaper, The Village. They’ve created a new Android app, eloquently named “Parking Douche.”

25. “Change agents” in Russia. Trends. - some of the most influential figures of the Russian opposition - civic society activists - civic society activists are becoming independent lawmakers • strong development of the volunteer movement

26. The Society of Blue Buckets is a free protest movement that has emerged in Russia as a response to the arbitrary, self-serving use of emergency rotating blue flashers by public servants. Inspired by blue toy bucket's strong resemblance to emergency blue rotating lights, members of the Society affix buckets up to their vehicles’ roofs during automotive flashmobs, as a manifestation of their protest against misuse of emergency lights.

27. Lizaalert.org: “We have gained practical experience in large-scale search operations involving hundreds of volunteers, professionals, the media and Internet communities”.

28. 2010. Togliatti. The “disappearance” of the forest

29. Civic society activists Volunteers in the salvation of the town Krymsk. July 2012. 171 people died duringthe floods 34,000 people have been affected by the floods

30. Civic society activists • new ideas and forms of interaction (blogs, lectures, meetings, exhibitions, projects, “marathon urban action”, funds etc.) e.g. “Partizaning”, “City projects” etc. • “fashion for” urbanism • interest in improving the urban environment • 2 ways for civic society activists: “do it yourself” or “force official institutes to work”

31. . partizaning.org: “Unsanctioned interventions and interactions in our urban environments, combined with mass media connectivity, have become effective transformative tactics for a new, alternative vision for the future. Partizaning is not just the name of our website. It is also a term to define a new phenomenon and strategy at the intersection of street art and social activism. We devised this term in Russia, where we demonstrate in a revolutionary tradition how self-motivated, unauthorized statements and unsolicited action can become key drivers of social and cultural change. Our goal is to reflect and promote the idea of art-based DIY activism aimed at rethinking, restructuring and improving urban environments and communities”.

32. “City projects”http://city4people.ru“We know and love the city. And we see that in Russia the situation with the cities is very bad. We want to change this situation”…

33. “City projects” projects,meetings lectures acting in blogosphere interactive with regions (e.g. meeting in Togliatti, publicity about situation with transport in Togliatti etc)

34. Members of State Duma vs Media “Political prostitution changed her sex” “Moscovskij komsomolec” http://www.mk.ru/specprojects/free-theme/article/2013/03/15/826727-politicheskaya-prostitutsiya-smenila-pol.html

35. THANKYOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Lubov Gapeeva e-mail: bumpy05@rambler.ru skype: february-february