Professor Yuri Ryzhov, President of the International Engineering University: - What happens in this country depends on the people who live here. And they were always satisfied with the actions of the authorities. In this country, it simply cannot be otherwise ...

Professor Yuri RYZHOV, President of the International Engineering University:

“What happens in this country depends on the people who live here. And they were always satisfied with the actions of the authorities. In this country, it simply cannot be otherwise ...

Professor Inga MIKHAILOVSKAYA, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

All such facts, of course, must be made public. But these are the normal costs of freedom of the press. Here you can read the killer's advertisement in the newspaper and the advertisement of the brothel. This is what America faced at the time. But I am sure that we will never be able to revive censorship. The President and the Duma in its current composition will not violate the Constitution and limit the proclaimed democracy.

Vadim ABDRASHITOV, film director:

— The journalistic community is now being tested for rupture. Will the instinct of self-preservation work? The instinct works if we instantly react to the slightest infringement of freedom of speech - no matter where it happens, in Perm or Vladivostok. The indifference of the community to what is happening to him is an incurable disease, when the only way out is suicide. The authorities are testing: does the community have an instinct for self-preservation? These tests, in the form of workers' letters or provocative publications, follow the authorities' desire to stifle free speech.

Svetlana ALEKSIEVICH, writer:

To learn from your mistakes, you need to be willing to learn. And it is easier for us to call on the spirits of the past than to learn to think about the consequences of these calls. There are amazing models of cars on the streets, cookies in beautiful packages ... But the way of thinking has remained the same.