You're very naive to assume that this government takes any feedback.
I'll just leave this thread here: https://twitter.com/IrineKuklina/status/1578339408801304580
I'll just leave this thread here: https://twitter.com/IrineKuklina/status/1578339408801304580
Good luck, and I hope you stay out of harm's way.
I live in the US. I can openly speak my mind with relative safety. And I mean relative. My physical safety will likely not be risked, nor the physical safety of my family. But we are very much at a stage where any dissent is accompanied by internet mobs and unemployment.
Do I think that I can convince > 50% of voters in my county to rescind a 1% tax on my household income over $200k? Unlikely. Near zero probability. And my guess is that that probability is certainly less than the probability I am called a racist, transphobe, white supremacist. And that may reduce my income to $0. The EV play doesn't make sense when I have children to raise.
I imagine the above weighted by an openly corrupt gov willing to imprision and kill further diminishes the EV for an individual.
But voting exists at all levels, and I've found that the more local, the more you're exposed to the tyranny of the majority.
My example is based off the very real Portland Metro Supportive Housing Tax. The process was: get measure on ballot => get > 50% of votes. There were no "better men" involved to declare gov welfare as beyond the scope of government. All it took were a bunch of people that wanted an outcome voting for a process to achieve that outcome without having to pay for it.
My point was that I'm effectively powerless to prevent that issue or to reverse it, yet it's likely much easier to change relative to Russian, state-level policies, and I'm not dealing with physical dangers. Hence my condolences to the Russian.