Not yet evening

In the Moscow City Garden. Bauman took place a ceremony of presenting the Polit -Posvet Prize. But if last year the action took place against the backdrop of a growing public protest and the action itself partly resembled an unauthorized rally, then in this everything was painted in more restrained tones.

The participants in the ceremony spoke of a rapidly changing context, which, by the way, gathered many opposition leaders - Mikhail Kasyanov, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Ilya Yashin.

The jury member, last year Laureate, Sergei Spilkin, admitted that "this year was completely different, somewhat gloomy and high -pose."

The founder of the award Dmitry Zimin expressed himself in the same spirit, but more specifically: “I am very sorry that among us there is no our colleague Sergei Guriev. This is very bitter. This only suggests that the remaining enlighteners are even more responsible. It is sad, but, by the way, now it’s still a holiday. ”

Another “great elder” Yevgeny Yasin turned the conversation 180 degrees: “Today they talked about troubles, about their large quantities that continues to grow. I looked at the faces of those people who entered the short list and the long list. And I want to say - not evening yet !!! ”

Indeed, the world is open and free, everything is ahead and will always be ahead, as Mikhail Bakhtin once said. And much can still change, although you should not forget about the missed opportunities either.

So, a holiday. The weather gave the go -ahead to conduct it. In the morning in Moscow, it rained, and by the evening the sky cleared. And the orchestra began to play.

After the rain of heaven is more spacious

Pigeons water, greener copper.

In the city garden, flute, but valtor.

The dropmaster wants to take off.

This song of Okudzhava did not sound at the evening. But her spirit, melody, a sense of freedom and lightness somehow felt.

The cultural chipper Alexander Gavrilov, to Bayan’s accompaniment, either sang, or read the ditties with a tongue twister on relevant political topics, holding the newspapers Vedomosti, Komsomolskaya Pravda, “badly” before the eyes of the newspaper. Yes, poor Surkov. There was "near the Kremlin", became "about zero."

But now the presenters go to the stage - Tatyana Lazareva and Mikhail Shats. And the ceremony began.

Writer Alexander Arkhangelsky addresses the assembled with the "act of act." She is dedicated to Khodorkovsky. Mikhail Borisovich, he says, an exemplary political enlightener. Not only because he simply, clearly and cordially writes letters to different people, prints articles, and sometimes co -authored, and books. Not only because it shares its thoughts in infrequent interviews and these thoughts are aphoristic, impeccable and accurate. But first of all, because the experience of his life in zero, freely or involuntarily, became an example of active education. Own personal example.

Arkhangelsky says that Khodorkovsky overcame many temptations and temptations, survived the deep personal and religious revolution, without falling into obscurantism or despair; He allowed his deep and undoubted suffering - into mental growth.

Good speech, although somewhat pathos.

And here is the first surprise: Evgeny Yasin reports that this year the journalist, writer and politician Valery Novodvorskaya was awarded the honorary award “For Fidelity to Principles”. Valeria Ilyinichna cannot rise on stage. They bring her a microphone. “I'm just in shock. I thought that no one would ever reward me, because I was very conflict. I even swear with journalists. But no. And there is a hole in the old woman, ”she says.

The next was awarded the winner of the prize in the GRATA nomination. This is a non -residency prize for the media, more energetic than others working in political space. The winner was the Rain TV channel.

But now the participants of the short-list are rising on stage. Just in case, I remind you of the names of six finalists. This is the constant author of the Hedgehog Dmitry Oreshkin, Alexander Baunov, Kirill Rogov, Maxim Trudolyubov, Svetlana Reuters and a team of three people - Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev and Alexei Pivovarova (documentary film “Term”).

Jury Chairman Yuri Saprykin says the words necessary in such cases: “Extremely worthy people were included in the short list this year, I would be glad of the victory of each of them. The choice is complex. Different people, they showed themselves very brightly over the past year. This short list shows that the things we are engaged in are not so bad. ”

And finally, the name of the winner sounds: Svetlana Reuters. She was awarded the prize in the Persona nomination, she was awarded the first place in the nomination "Best Publicist based on the results of the popular vote."

Svetlana Reuters wrote many articles in defense of the prisoners of the "Swamp business". And her words of gratitude are inseparable from her determination to resist the untruth: “Thank you for the award, but I am not a political publicist. I just wrote about people who are now undeservedly sitting in a pre -trial detention center. I will give part of the prize to the Rosuznik project, another part - to the project in defense of Gaskarov. But honestly, I will not give the whole prize, I have two children. ”

It should be noted that the victory of Svetlana Reuters is the most uninhabited for publicists. It was really given a "workhorse." In this sense, the Politzosvet repeated last year's maneuver when the prize went to physics Sergei Shpilkin. Long live political correctness!

Photos of Maria Olendskaya / Hedgehog