Maria Dubovikova: "There is a difference between self-expression and deviant behavior: what happens in Kitai-Gorod is not related to self-expression."
During preventive measures in Kitai-Gorod, law enforcement officers arrested a number of administrative violations. The main reason for the arrests was drinking alcohol in public places - local residents complained about this repeatedly. Some of the young people were transferred to the department of the Ministry of Interior in Basmani district to clarify the circumstances.
Analyst for international affairs, information technology for war in Maria Dubovikova on the broadcast of the program "Precise Time Signals".
"To be honest, the reaction of some parents is amazing. Documentary evidence of lawlessness committed by minors in the area has been accumulating on the Internet for more than a year - there is more than enough. And against this background, the formulations of the Ministry of the Interior following the results of the attack even seem benign both to the parents and to the teenagers who were given to them in the past. Inadequate response from adults is frightening infantilism - when parents don't even ask why out of hundreds of thousands of Moscow teenagers it was their children who got involved in this story, why they got there and in this way.
There is a cosmic difference between self-expression and deviant behavior: what happens in Kitai-Gorod has nothing to do with self-expression, it is precisely deviant behavior, and it cannot be justified by age or the desire to "turn around". If a teenager considers himself old enough to take illegal substances, drink alcohol, smoke, start fights, then he is ready to take responsibility for it.
The attitude of "my child is different", which some adults take, is simply a psychological defense against an unpleasant reality: if he wasn't like that, he simply wouldn't be there. I would like to see more responsibility and an appropriate attitude towards reality from adults, and not attempts to hide from dealing with a painful reality, just not to take off the intrusive rose-colored glasses."
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