Dall’analisi di Richard Arnold, The Jamestown Foundation: One of the new holidays introduced by the Kremlin, which was invented in response to the alleged impending threat of a color revolution within the country, Russian National Unity Day, will be held annually on November 4. Ostensibly commemorating the liberation of Moscow from the Polish intervention led by Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky in 1612, the holiday also honors “the Zemsky sobor a few months after the liberation of the capital, which included representatives from all classes in the country, including nobility, boyars, clergy, Cossacks, delegations from Russian cities and ordinary peasants, [who] elected a new Tsar—Mikhail Fedorovich—from the Romanov dynasty.” This event marked the end of the so-called “Time of Troubles” in Russian history—a period that chimed with the end of Russia’s second “time of troubles” in the 1990s (5-tv.ru, November 4). While the holiday has been appropriated by neo-Nazi and ultranationalist groups in the past, the Russian state successfully wrested back control of its proceedings in 2017 (see EDM, November 6, 2017). The resonance of the holiday this year is especially poignant given Moscow’s genocidal re-invasion of Ukraine.
Russian National Unity Day Against the Backdrop of the War in Ukraine – Jamestown
