The idea of making Yanukovych punish lower-ranking officers of the Berkut or the Ministry of Internal Affairs is relevant. It would show the entire contingent of fascist police officers that they will be held accountable for their actions. But Yanukovych promised the entire Berkut that he would not punish anyone, and so far he has kept his word. The Berkut has not been punished even for the beating of students on November 30; it has already been 2 months.
I wrote above that you can only go after lower-ranking officers if the violations are their personal initiative, and not a result of following orders from higher-ranking officers. This, on the contrary, increases the manageability of the structure, so higher-ranking officers are willing to take such actions.
The president of the country is not an enemy to himself; any ruler wants the population to love and appreciate him. It is much easier to govern a loyal population. It's just that not everyone has the intelligence/talent/resources to earn this loyalty. However, this is not the primary goal; the loyalty of the elite is much more important – it is easy for them to overthrow the ruler, but it is difficult for the people.
Therefore, it is dangerous for the ruler to enter into a direct conflict with the elite; this is done only in critical cases, when either the elite has gone out of control, or they have allowed a strong external threat to power to emerge. Therefore, smart rulers do not conflict with the elite, but slowly and carefully "groom" them, change their attitudes, explain the rules of the game, and carry out repression only against those who have violated them, and with the consent of the rest of the elite, and usually in the form of a public flogging – so that others will not dare to do the same.
The people, through skillful actions, can accelerate this process – for this, they need to independently identify the violators and express their will, demanding punishment. This provides the ruler with a point of support in internal elite squabbles – he is not an absolute monarch, but rather a judge over the groups around power. Therefore, in order to suppress some, it is necessary to rely on others.
For example:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D1%F2%EE%EF%F5%E0%EC
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%E1%F9%E5%F1%F2%E2%EE_%f1%e8%ed%e8%f5_%e2%e5%e4%b8%f0%ee%ea
In April 2012, the project gained notoriety after an incident at the "European" shopping center in Moscow, in which Madina Mingaeva, the wife of the Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Chechnya to the President of the Russian Federation, Tamerlan Mingaeva, who parked her car incorrectly, and Mingaev's son, who was urgently called by his mother to resolve the issue, took part. The conflict ended in a brawl, during which Madina and Islam Mingaev tried to force the operators to destroy the recording, and also threatened them and their families with physical violence. However, the recording ended up on the Internet, and as of August 2012, it had been viewed more than five million times on YouTube. A scandal broke out, and a criminal case was opened for hooliganism. On May 5, 2012, the President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, officially announced the dismissal of Mingaev in connection with the unacceptable public actions of his wife.
