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About your money ...

June 9, 2011 Alexander Ryklin

So, our respected readers, about two months have passed since we started this risky (and it seems to many, which is dubious) in the “daily magazine”, an experiment to raise funds from an interested audience ... interested in obtaining high -quality journalistic products, in spending time reading professional materials, and not amateur fabrications, to find out the opinion of real experts, impartially assessing the realities of our time and always able to provide us with a competent analysis of what is happening.

Today it is already possible to confidently state: our “signature” campaign was successful. Quite a lot of readers of the Hedgehog considered it possible and necessary for themselves to start paying for what used to get free. We thank them with all our hearts. It seems to us that they are responsible people, with self -esteem, with a clear understanding of the features of today's situation.

I am well aware of what they expect from me now - a report. Say, to grind good with your tongue, go, dear, to specifics. Tell us how much it has drunk, report how you are spent. Here I immediately want to remind the reader that we are not a one -time action. Our fundraising campaign is fundamentally different from those that have already been successfully implemented (or are currently being carried out) on the network by our friends and associates, for example, Boris Nemtsov or Alexei Navalny. “Daily Journal” is not a charity, but a commercial project. Therefore, we consider it quite natural if people who have the opportunity for this will begin to pay for the services provided (in this case intellectual, but this does not change the essence). As if, for example, you bought a magazine in a kiosk. The only difference: an attempt to get a magazine in a kiosk can end free of charge, but here - please! We are glad to everyone!

Now, nevertheless, what your money has already been spent on (and will). Since September, we have been launching a new project called “To the Pillage”. This will be such, in a certain sense, Kunstkamera of Russian anti -Heroes. Under the heading “They accused of civil society”, a whole collection of marvelous characters has already been collected - from the prosecutor of Lachtin, the state prosecutor Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, and the judges of Borovkova, who distinguished himself during the trial of Nemtsov, to, for example, Lev Smirnov, who chaired the trial in the case of Daniel and Sinyavsky, or Yakov Lerner, one of the inspirers of the court over the trial of the court "Tuneuan" Joseph Brodsky.

On the pages of the new edition you will find detailed stories about the episodes themselves, get acquainted with the grounds that our authors allowed their heroes in this inaccent company, thereby causing the serious damage to their reputation. (Actually, the whole project is primarily about this - about the reputation.) I am sure that by the fall the list will be replenished with new names. The formation of a public council on a site has already begun, which will include famous and respected people.

In addition, we really hope that we will be able to improve something in the “hedgehog”: to get new interesting authors, start with the next “intrage” projects, and begin the preparation of a series of meetings of readers with the “author’s team”. In a word, friends, we are going to welcome and extend you in every possible way.

But you don’t forget about us! Remember - you get used to the good quickly! But, I repeat, we love you all - rich and poor, generous and brushwood. We all are glad for you, except ... you know who. We don’t need anything from them. Even money ...

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