· - ZOiS REPORT - MOBILISING FOR REGIONAL PROTESTS ON RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:

The clear winner was the LDPR, which received 56.1 % of votes and all the direct mandates it went for, taking 30 seats out of 36.26 The ongoing popularity of the governor was a major factor, as the LDPR candidates made pledges to support the governor and the party campaigned under the slogan “LDPR — a proven choice”. [...] The socioeconomic centre-periphery dimension of social inequality in Rus- sia (see the above section on the socioeconomic background to the protests) The texts emphasise the expands into the level of shared interpretations by being integrated into re- mass character of the gional identities. [...] Framing around the attempted protest camp How did the framing of the 2020 protests in Khabarovsk Krai change over time? The period chosen for the comparison over time is the second larger peak in the social media coverage of the protests, which occurred in early October. [...] However, the party did not support Furgal or the pro- testers; indeed, the LDPR found itself on the “wrong side” of the symbolic Khabarovsk Krai-Moscow divide as Mikhail Degtyariev, who had no con- nection to the Krai, was appointed as the acting governor by Putin and be- came the head of the regional party branch.57 The comments on social media show that the party lost its credibility in the regi. [...] The intial protest phase, the study assumes, was when the interpreta- tions of Furgal’s arrest, the political situation in the region and the street Citation actions were developed that laid the foundation for the mass character of Tatiana Golova: ‘Mobilis- the protests and their longevity.