Гражданская активность населения города Хабаровска в призме современных политических событий

Abstract

The events of 2020 on the territory of the city of Khabarovsk have become a cause for surprise for almost all residents of Russia. Few people could have imagined such a sharp reaction to the detention of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, S.I. Furgal, and the further development of these events among the local community. If by the winter of 2021 the bulk of the protests have outlived their usefulness, do not say that they are impossible in the future. In this regard, the main purpose of the work is to analyze the civil protest activity of the inhabitants of the city of Khabarovsk. Even a small number of factors affecting the civic activity of residents of the city of Khabarovsk explains the sharp reaction to the events taking place in the city. The results of the study allow us to expand our understanding of the phenomenon of growing civic activity in the Russian Far East. The authors of this article consider civil protest as civil activity, a set of public speeches, which are based on the dissatisfaction of individuals with the nature of the existing state-public relations, distrust of the authorities and disagreement with the policy pursued by state institutions. The mass protest movement in Khabarovsk is proposed to be analyzed from the point of view of a special sphere of the political process – contentious politics, "politics of contestation", or "protest politics" in terms of Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, which is gaining momentum not only in the Russian Far East, but also in the world. 
 The article uses data from sociological research and expert assessments. The conclusions indicate that the Khabarovsk Territory remains a region with serious political risks.