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Now Boris Efimovich’s condition is normal. He washed his eyes and decided not to even go to the emergency room. The guards were there and they were also doused. Two security guards and Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Tatyana Kireeva were seriously injured. I managed to cover my face, so they only doused my clothes, but they hit me in the face and in the eyes. Such a rather dirty provocation, I think, is beyond foul, because if before there were toys, now the provocation posed a threat to people’s health. We are absolutely convinced that Surkov personally bears responsibility for all this. These are Surkov’s paid thugs who systematically work with the opposition. We know very well that these guys were sent from Moscow, they will, apparently, “work” here throughout the entire election campaign, and this means that the campaign in Sochi will most likely have a rather dirty, scandalous nature. I recognized the provocateur, who was dressed as a transvestite; he met us at the entrance and, apparently, was performing a diversionary maneuver. He diverted attention to himself at the moment when we were passing, and these young men jumped out from around the corner and began dousing us with ammonia. I might have recognized them, I would have to watch the video, they promised to give it to us, but when they throw ammonia in your face, it is very difficult to identify someone. I think we'll do this again. The same provocateur who accosted me on Pushkin Square in September 2008, who then accosted me in front of the Yabloko office, dressed up as a transvestite. We called the police, the police ignored our calls three times, each time they were surprised and said that this was the first time they had heard about this. But in the end, after two hours, the squad arrived, we wrote a statement. Although we understand perfectly well that these scumbags have both political cover and, apparently, cover in law enforcement agencies, because otherwise they would not behave so brazenly. Such thoughts are prompted by their confidence in their own impunity. We know very well that this is organized by Surkov personally, this is a direct order from Surkov.