Попробовал. Надеюсь, что обошлось без ошибок. Одну выцепил и исправил.

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A Forgotten October? Russia in 1993
International conference. Paris, 18-19 November 2013

Victor Korb
Summary

In October 1993, I was one of the leaders of the "first wave democratic movement" in Omsk Oblast, the chairman of the Democratic Russia parliamentary group at the 21st convocation of The Omsk City Council of People's Deputies. Being a convinced democrat and liberal, I strongly and publicly condemned Yeltsin's Ukaz (decree), qualifying it as an attempt of an unconstitutional, antidemocratic overturn. It's not surprising I was one of the few deputies who spoke and voted against the decision to self-disband City Council, which was one of the first and the last bastions of local self-government.
For me and a narrow group of like-minded, the events of October 1993 and the Yeltsin-Putin "sovereign democracy" era which would follow them were quite expected and logically resulted from processes of Perestroika period. The key moment in those processes was 1990-91, when a group of political gamblers successfully implemented a plan to reorganize Democratic Russia, a widespread public movement, into virtually a Yeltsin's party – a structure of so-called democrat-bolshevist type. The essential and unique for Russia process of the civil self-organization was therefore roughly tampered with "realpolitik" techniques, and the principle of "political practicability" was once again prevailed over the basic principles of freedom, democracy and self-governance. Instead of systemic reforms, based on the energy of public self-consciousness and self-organization, another seizure of central power under the guise of pseudo-democratic slogans was exercised. The notorious "Power Vertical" was, in fact, already constructed in the early 90s; under Putin this system, restoring all the key components of Russian sacral imperial complex, was just finally and cynically delineated.
The events on 1990-93 have stricken on Russia catastrophically, burying or postponing for long an unique opportunity to peacefully transform its social and state structure, with its extremely persistent imperial centralist complex, into a modern civil-democratic model. These negative factors of "overturn of 1993" can be referred as the most significant ones:

- destruction of the local self-government system, replacing it with a façade;
- replacing the independent social activity with a controlled rituals;
- constructing an unique model of a "façade democracy", which substitutes basically all the essential social and state institutions with a fake;
- devaluation of the major political symbols and the concepts they are related to: freedom, public spirit, justice, law, democracy et al.;
- systematic introduction of methods of political manipulation into the political and public sphere;
- total growth of social frustration and apathy, which promotes to restore and strengthen the historic Russian complex of sacralization of the power.

And yet, the rise of civic awareness and non-violent civil protest in 2011-12 shows that Russia is not hopeless, it still has potential of a qualitative social transformation. But its success will largely depend on the civil leaders' ability to thoroughly reflect the essential points of the whole period of modern Russian history from 1988 till present and, most importantly, their own role in these events.

Сергей, спасибо большое! Мне обещали еще один вариант. Надеюсь, никого не обижу, если попробую выбрать лучший :-) Ну и по итогам обязательно еще раз поблагодарю всех откликнувшихся - как смогу!

P.S. Почему мы не в друзьях?

Конечно, надо выбрать лучший вариант, никаких обид.

// Выловил ещё одну опечатку у себя, учитывайте в дальнейшем: "with a controlled rituals" - "а" не нужно. Больше опечаток не вижу, надеюсь, ничего не пропустил.

"P.S. Почему мы не в друзьях?" -- Это поправимо :)

ОК

- destruction of local self-government system, replacing it with a façade;
- replacing independent social activity with controlled rituals;
- constructing an unique model of a "façade democracy", which basically substitutes basically all the essential social and state institutions with a fake;
- devaluation of major political symbols and related notions such as freedom, public spirit, justice, law, democracy etc.;
- systematic introduction of methods of political manipulation into political and public sphere;
- total growth of social frustration and apathy, which promotes restoration and strengthening of historic Russian complex of sacralization of power.

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По-моему частая ошибка, когда русские переводят. куда-нибудь обязательно всунуть актикль. Однако абстрактные понятия должны идти без оного.

* разрушение системы местного самоуправления, замена ее бутафорией;
* замена самостоятельной социальной активности контролируемыми ритуалами;
* выстраивание уникальной модели "бутафорской демократии", подменяющей практически все важнейшие общественно-государственные институты муляжами;
* девальвация важнейших политических символов и связанных с ними понятий: свобода, гражданственность, справедливость, право, демократия и др.;
* системное внедрение в политику и общественную среду методов политического манипулирования;
* тотальный рост социальной разочарованности и апатии, способствующий восстановлению и укреплению исторического российского комплекса сакрализации власти.

Уже есть варианты полного перевода, но все равно спасибо, надеюсь, пригодится :-)