In their denunciation of “Soviet electoral practices,” they reject the combination of despotism and corruption that characterized Soviet power yesterday and Russian power today – rhetoric familiar from Arab revolutionaries. As young Arabs told the rulers of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, and other Arab countries, this new generation of Russians is telling Putin: “Get Out!”
从满嘴谴责的精英群体的行为角度来看，至少在某种程度来说，俄罗斯的示威者引起了阿拉伯革命的参与者的反应。他们公开谴责“苏维埃选举行为”，他们反对暴君统治和贪污腐败的结合体。这恰恰是曾经的苏维埃政权和当今的俄罗斯政权所具有的典型特征。这和阿拉伯革命者的遭遇极其相似。就像阿拉伯人民告诉利比亚、埃及、突尼斯、叙利亚，也门和其他阿拉伯国家领导人那样，这一代年轻的俄罗斯人正要求普京“下台”。