"According to Sharpe's Manual." Leningrad Oblast will demand an apology from the vice-governor for spreading false information about the defenders of the Dubrovka quarry.

Vice Governor for Security Mikhail Ilyin said "The nomadic manipulators sponsored by Western funds are behind the Dubrovka protests."Statement replicated LenTV24. Protesters against the emergence of a waste processing complex and training ground "Dubrovka" At the site of the flooded quarry, they told NeMoskva that they would demand an apology from the vice-governor.

"Visiting touring artists are drawing ordinary citizens into protests with the goal of sowing discord and inciting conflict. <...> If so-called actionists think that, raised on the American 'Sharp Method,' they can unhinderedly apply practices honed in protests around the world in the Lenin Region, they are deeply mistaken. We will not allow it...",” said a high-ranking official.

In a conversation with a reporter, the activists laughed: if the region's most senior official after the governor speaks so confidently about Western political technologies, it means he's thoroughly studied them himself. Besides, "Sharp's playbook" teaches methods transition from dictatorship to democracy - is Mr. Ilyin really claiming that dictatorship is thriving in free Russia?

"Either he should provide evidence for his words, or he should publicly apologize to the people against whom he started this war. Our grandmothers are chipping in 500 rubles from their pensions for public environmental assessments and court cases, and he's accusing us of being financed by someone else. Then he should tell us where to go for money to continue the fight against the pseudo-KPO.", — she stated Larisa Mukhina.

Local residents are initiating a petition to demand that the deputy governor issue a public apology.

Recently, Lipetsk authoritiesexposed" protesters against the eco-technopark near Stebaevo. They called those who oppose the landfill stench "Anastasia sectarians."