August 2 in blogs on PublicPost

When Andrei Sidelnikov went to buy tickets to the Olympics yesterday, he didn’t even suspect that that day he would be able to talk to the mayor of London and ask him about Pussy Riot.

On the fifth day of the Olympics, 56 sets of medals have already been played, of which we only have two gold ones. “It seems that even the “wooden” medals that were predicted for our team are becoming just an Olympic dream,” writes Albert Bityutsky.

“Is this team counting of medals really necessary?” asks Anatoly Bershtein. “This is hardly a healthy spirit of competition between countries. After all, it is athletes who compete, not countries. Why such a national wave, which sometimes clearly overwhelms?

“If a revolution happens, it will happen in the capital. And this does not mean that power will change in a particular city,” says Yaroslav Golodov from Novosibirsk. “In the meantime, the opposition’s personnel potential is little better than the authorities due to the fact that the majority, as always, remains on the sidelines and hopes that without it everything will go in its interests.”

The Sagra trial began in the Yekaterinburg regional court. Egor Bychkov reports from the scene : “The defendants do not admit guilt, they behave very impudently and even swear. They say, “we were driving by, accidentally hit Sagra and they fired at us. We ourselves are victims.”

Entrepreneur Alexey Kalinov believes that the PussyRiot case reflects all the shortcomings and vices of our justice system. “The entire system of our legislation was created for only one thing, so that a judge could, at his discretion, sentence any person to anything: from 2 years of correctional labor for murder, to 7 years in prison for “obvious disrespect for society.”