Year without Lera

A year ago, on July 12, 2014, Valeria Novodvorskaya, our Lera, did not become. Throughout the existence of The New Times - from its first number, released on February 12, 2007, in each room, she published her columns - here in this lane. The latter came out after her death and was called "Do not make yourself an idol." But there is no replacement for Lera - she was a unique publicist, person, citizen. On the anniversary of the death of Lera, we selected quotes from its publications of different years - about Russia of historical, current and tomorrow, about power, opposition and business, about civil and human duty

“When we choke on despair and do not see anything ahead of the pit, when we are rightly spit and take us at all intersections of Europe, when Putin's autocracy drags Russia to the grave, he, Mr. Veliky Novgorod, our unfulfilled, ghost of a different life. Woland by Bulgakov considered the seventh to be the most convincing evidence of the being of God: reality, fact. Novgorod is the seventh proof of the possibility of a normal, Western, European development of Russia. ” “The civilians had no chance to survive. Mixing with the aliens from the wild field, digesting them, the Slavs unlearned to think about tomorrow and became refueling anarchists. So when a peaceful student, detained for a peaceful rally of protest, declares that he is an anarchist, blood says in it. The tradition of the wild field. Blessed, unaccountable will. Hence our eternal stenchi and emelki, hence the Russian riot, “meaningless and merciless”, but always washing state granite. This tradition is illegitimate. It involves civil wars and troubled times instead of law and law. She escaped from us in 1918, along with Nestor Makhno and Atamansh Maruska, she wanders in our veins, like hops, not allowing to be forgotten in a stable slant. ” “We have reached a situation where the civil qualities of a person are checked by the level of his confrontation with the authorities: in the square, in court, in the press ... The current youth pass their universities in auto -zaks, on the bench of the defendants and behind the thorn of the zones.” “The interests of the Russian business of Russia understood how miserable amendment before the autocracy, and imperial“ ideals ”are again injected into the throat of a boot.” “The old Dnieper under the Kyiv Kruchi, piercing the country and reaches the Kanev grave of Taras (Shevchenko) with its power, fulfilled its purpose: the last remnants of slavery were washed away by the blood of the heavenly hundreds of Maidan. Kaidans (shackles) were torn, collaborators fled from Kyiv, although the enemies hacked the Crimean door. And all the countries of the world, putting Ukrainian news on the first lane and the “first screen” at the beginning of the reports, “it became visible, it became even”, “yak Reva” is this very “roar” Dnipro. ” “We have to gnaw the next thaw of the Russian intelligentsia from the new ice age.” “Here is our purpose: to broadcast, scream from the kingdom of boaen and even directly from them. The main thing is not to be silent. ” Photo: Roman Goncharov Materials of Valeria Novodvorskaya in The New Times