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Disagreed from the Hudson
Nizhny Manhattan - people with posters with posters in defense of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the rights and freedoms guaranteed by it again came out
Disagreed from the Hudson. On August 31, at the intersection of Union Square and the 14th street-this is New York, Nizhny Manhattan-people with posters with posters in defense of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the rights and freedoms guaranteed by it again came out. Exactly with the same requirements, people came out in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The result is known. Among the organizers of “Strategy 31” in the USA are art critic Natalya Pelevina and a businessman, the son of the most famous political prisoner Pavel Khodorkovsky
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Natalia Pelevina is forty: a high forehead, big eyes on a narrow face, a pure, without any accent, the Russian language is a lot of reading a person. She is an art critic, his father worked as a representative of the USSR in an international company engaged in satellite connection in London - since he was 12 years old. She graduated from school (first at the embassy, refused to join the Komsomol, went to the British), then the university. Moved to the USA. Money makes money with scripts - mainly by the fact that he edits strangers.
Start
In 2002, Nord-Ost happened: this tragedy shocked her. She began to write a play (now writes a book), contacted relatives: “Here, Nastya Kurbatova, who had a daughter on Dubrovka, her son’s son.” Her story Olga Romanova, a 26-year-old woman, whom terrorists shot when she in some incomprehensible way ended up in the captured building of the theater. Having promoted her story, Pelevin came to Moscow (she has Russian citizenship), found witnesses, found herself in strange situations when some people in uniform, promising her information, took her 40 km from Moscow. I edited the English version of the Book of Memory of the Victims of Nord-Ost: “Naturally, I edited about all 130 dead worriedly: this topic did not even stand.” The more she, as she says, was “plunged” into the history of Nord-Ost, the more Russian politics began to occupy it. Back in the mid-2000s, I met in London with Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko (“I am not familiar with Boris Abramovich (Berezovsky)”), and in Moscow, in the Vagankovsky cemetery, she has a grave of great-grandfather, one of the organizers of the uprising in the Black Earth Region, shot in 1932. 
The son of Zek
Khodorkovsky Jr.-26. Outwardly fantastically similar to the father-to that, the mid-1990s. Only the antennae on the upper lip is not enough. But the character is completely different: open, soft, friendly. However, Paul says that his father is now softer: “Previously, he considered people primarily as workers - more effective, less effective. But after he got into prison, his character softened a little. ” The father formed a second family when Pasha was 4 years old: “But they have never been hostile with his mother - on the contrary, very friendly, and the contacts never stopped.” And when Khodorkovsky was imprisoned, and Paul’s mother (she is sometimes jokingly called her in a relaxing circle: “Elder wife”), and even the first mother -in -law of the MBH rushed to protect him. At shares in New York, under the final of the second process, Pavel Khodorkovsky went out with his mother.
The last time I saw my father 8 years ago, shortly before the arrest, when he was traveling to the United States. And although then there was already talk in the press about, to put it mildly, the difficult relations of the oligarch with President Putin, the son of excitement did not notice: “Then, of course, I understood little, I was 18 years old. But I was one hundred percent sure: since my father, in any case externally, is calm, then everything will be resolved well. If I knew then ... "
There was a few father in his life at all: at the age of 14, Paul was sent to study at a boarding school in Switzerland, then the university near Boston (USA): “Last Saturday (interviewed on July 27.-The New Times) Dad could call me. They have a phone in the detachment (in the colony), and once a week they can call after work. And at seven o’clock in the evening of Moscow time he called me. I heard his voice live the first time in 8 years. ” What else? In New York, Paul married, his daughter for a year and a half. He has his own small company: by training he is a manager of IT projects, but now he is engaged in the development of equipment, which allows the houses to track where electricity goes, and, accordingly, save it.
Natalya Pelevina held the first action in the framework of Strategy 31 on August 31, 2010. Pavel Khodorkovsky first went to his own - "Freedom Khodorkovsky." Now they have united.
What kind of people who go to your shares in New York?
Natalya Pelevina: Not only in New York, we went to Washington. And a variety of people come out. Businessmen, for example. There are more and more people who are now here on economic articles here. Lawyers, lawyers come. There are not many of us - 40-50 people. But these are all very active people: there are no random people here.
Is this new, Putin emigration?
Not only. There are those who live here for 20 and 30 years.
At first you held your shares near the UN building, and then moved to Union Square, where there are a lot of writing and generally creative people. Consciously?
Pavel Khodorkovsky: There are simply a slightly different contingent of people: people stop, start a conversation, ask, are interested in, and there are very few people on the 67th street (near the UN) during the day, a specific place, due to the fact that the local representative office of the KGB used to be there earlier.
"Bad News"
And what do the Americans ask?
Pavel: Well, most often: "Guys, why are we standing?"
Natalia: No, Pasha, many know. They say: “Oh, Jes, Putin from Bad News” (O, Yes, Putin Is Bad News), - like Putin is bad news.
Do Khodorkovsky react to the surname?
Pavel: Our Khodorkovsky is not always written. When just shares of “Strategy 31”, people are suitable, ask, because “31st” does not mean anything to them. Therefore, we have a poster in which in short, in two languages, it is written what is at stake.
Khodorkovsky began to react especially after the beginning of the second process: even here they understand all the absurdity of the matter. Now they will recognize the surname with the doctor in the office and in a taxi, and here I participated in the business project competition at Stern (business school of New York University.-The New Times), so the students asked: "The namesake or relative?"
Natalia: Many people know and understand, sympathize ... And our best action was on March 31 in Washington: I put on a bag, tied a rope around him and put on handcuffs. For example, we had a wonderful banner made a wonderful banner where Putin and Gaddafi were together. A lot of journalists came to look at us ... 
From Russian publications too?
From RIA Novosti once there was a correspondent. All the time-“Snob”, “Voice of America”, BBC.
And with the police (American), in general, there were no problems with the authorities? They did not ask: "What the hell are you here to carry out all sorts of demonstrations?"
Natalia: How is it? Yes, this is impossible.
Didn't they call the FBI?
Natalia: (Laughs.) How? For what? In the beginning, by some idiocy, I notified in writing until I found out that no notifications were needed if we are not going to block the movement of cars. If we are just standing, 20, 40 people, but as much as you like - nothing is needed at all. The maximum that happens, and that very rarely, the policeman will suit, say: “You guys, how? Help is not needed? "
Pavel: You need a notification if you use a loudspeaker ...
Natalia: And that’s not everywhere. Here everything varies very much, like from state to state, so from city to city.
And when they held the action in Washington, near the White House - nothing was required either?
Natalya: No, here I had to fill out the uniform and send: to inform you that we will be there ... And when we arrived, the policeman came up to me and said: “So ... well ... well, that's all,” and went away. Still, when I just agreed, I was asked: “Will you be on this side of Pennsylvania Avenue, on the other side or on the lawn? Because different structures are responsible for different places. ” And I, dear mother, do not know where to ... (laughs.) 
Father: MBH
Pasha, how does your father relate to your rally activity? Didn't say "don't"?
Pavel: Dad said “do not” and continues to say that it is not necessary. And in the past year and a half I began to understand this a little, because I myself had a daughter: this is first of all, I think, the parental instinct - not to spoil the life of my child. Father always argues this that he does not want me to spend time on it, he is afraid that due to the fact that I will spend a lot of time on his support, this will interfere with my career and my life.
You said that your father was seen last time 8 years ago. Was he even as steel as we saw him in the “cage” in the Hamovnic Court?
Yes. From the beginning of my conscious age ... I can say so: my father, of course, has changed, but he changed, on the contrary, in the soft direction. He softened to people. Previously, he primarily evaluated the professional qualities of people.
Have you talked a lot with him before he sat down?
How often it was possible to communicate with a person whose life is devoted to work. Really my father began to communicate closely, just when I graduated from school (in Switzerland), this is the summer of 2003. I had a car, I could move freely, began to come to my father to work. And we got a very close contact.
You probably often tell you that you are very similar to your father?
I only need a hairstyle shorter ... I used to cut it very briefly, and they told me all the time that the similarity is one to one. But this is a compliment, of course.
Are you talking about now?
Previously, they only corresponded. And then he called ... Although they spoke for 3-4 minutes.
Did you send him a photo of a daughter?
Certainly.
MBH is not sentimental?
He became a little sentimental ... He said that he now has such an age when he gets high from young children. So my daughter was lucky.
At the end of the conversation, dad even asked: "If you give her a phone now, she will say anything?" I say: "Now let's try." But she rumbled something in her childhood. He really liked it.
And in letters he gives you any advice, shares something?
Mostly business. Because the tips on personal life in letters that pass through ten hands are difficult to ask. 
Motives
Natasha, but you are still doing Magnitsky’s business, right?
Natalia: Now we are collecting signatures in support of the petition of congressmen who are preparing an act on Magnitsky. The State Department has already announced that about 60 officials involved in this case will be denied visas. But I think that this is a preemptive move on their part, so that there is no legislative act. Say, you guys do not worry there in the congress, we will still ban the visas to them, we also think that they are bastards, but the bill is not necessary. Because the bill adopted by Congress is already very seriously, this is an action directed not against individual officials - against the regime.
Pavel: The expanded bill, which now runs in the Senate and Congress, already indicates the names of 300 people, and he admits that malicious human rights violators in Russia can be added as needed.
Natalya: People write from Russia in huge quantities - can we put our signatures under the petition? Another thing is that the congressmen to whom we will send our petition - and we will send to the office of each congressman in each state are primarily interested in their voters: before those who live in Khimki are not responsible. I think that we will be able to collect a decent number of signatures here in the USA here.
Natasha, why do you need it. Pasha’s father sits, his motives are understandable. And yours?
Natalia: I want to see the country where I was born, not in the state in which she is now. And this is not directly related to my personal well -being. I just know that I am not indifferent to everything related to Russia, with the Nord-Ost, with Khodorkovsky.