If the government is afraid of civil society and independent media, it sees this very “foreign influence” as its main enemy. Because the government wants to keep all the tools of real influence on society and the government, primarily financial ones, under its control. And in fact, as Russia’s experience clearly shows, [the government] is trying to limit not so much the influence of foreigners, but the influence of its own citizens, Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Portnikov wrote for RFE/RL. “It’s not just indignation about the government’s irresponsibility, about the fact that it endangers the c…