In today's Russia, the concept of “terrorism” has undergone a fundamental transformation. It increasingly refers to real force against the civilian population, and increasingly acts as an administrative and criminal tool utilized by the state to regulate social behaviour, suppress opposition and make a permanent threat atmosphere. As The Insider notes, in the analysis of Ivan Pavlov's lawyer, along with the prolonged war against Ukraine's Russian justice strategy has lost the discrimination between political and non-political issues. The repressions were no longer directed solely against active opponents of power. They began to include increasingly large, frequently random groups of citizens.
