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Russian state effectively belongs to Putin and his clique of friends who have special privileges that common people do not. The rest of the people are treated worse than black people in Apartheid South Africa. Read on blue buckets for one example of this unfair system. It's a protests against government officials using blue flashers to get immunity from traffic rules not only during work related emergencies but just any time they need to ride anywhere, even for leisure.

Everyone else on the road has to stop and wait until some mayor of the city or something will drive to strip club after hard day of work, embezzling public money to afford another Maybach while homes of common people remain unrepaired.

That is just one example of government special treatment, but this mindset goes into

It does expose government officials and elites' attitude to rules and such: common people must obey rules, and we are special and rules do not apply to us. It's like this in other spheres in life too. Russia is essentially a perpetual occupation or colonial regime where government elites treat the country like it's a colony or a defeated enemy.

And if you protest against that its prison and accusation of being a foreign spy. <irony>Because why would locally oppose to this system, they must be paid by Soros or Department of State</irony>

it does not matter if Russia can keep these lands or not, there are enough land as it is, what is more important is to kick occupation regime out of Kremlin.