How "going together" reached a prisoner of conscience

Journalists modestly call the Anatomy of Protest - 2 Konstantin Lebedev as an assistant coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov arrested on the basis of the transfer of NTV. He, together with Sergey Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhaev and other unidentified persons, the Investigative Committee accused of preparing the riots . After interrogation in the UK, by the decision of the Basmanny Court, only Lebedev was arrested until December 16. Publicpost figured out the political biography of the new prisoner from the ranks of the opposition.

About yourself

Lebedev wrote his own brief biography in the questionnaire when registering in the elections to the Coordinating Council of the opposition: "Lebedev Konstantin Vladimirovich. Born on June 25, 1979. Secondary education ( actually in 1997-2002, but did not graduate from the oil and gas institute named after Gubkin-Publicpost) . The Revolutionary Party of the Community (RKRP-RPC) since 1999 ( in March 2012, Publicpost was excluded ) .

The road is "walking"

In his biography, Lebedev wrote that he was a participant in protest promotions since 1999. But he did not specify which ones. Lebedev was not always an oppositionist. In 2001, Lebedev entered the youth movement "Walking together", created by Vasily and Boris Yakemenko to support Vladimir Putin, and immediately took the post of spokesman there. As part of the “Walking”, he protested against the books of Vladimir Sorokin - when activists of the movement tore the brochures with quotes from the novel “Blue Salo”, “Ice”, “Norm” and “First Subbotnik”, poured them with chlorine and lowered them into a huge toilet. The future communist participated in the collection of Karl Marx's books and send them to Germany. “This man did the greatest harm to our country, not even himself, but his teaching. He did not provide that his teaching would use and die so,” Lebedev said then in an interview with the “German wave” .

In anticipation of the elections to the State Duma in 2003, "walking together", and with them Konstantin Lebedev, held a lot of shares against the Communist Party. The leitmotif of these shares was the party’s accusation of ties with Boris Berezovsky. The shares themselves and their rhetoric became in the future a model for other pro -Kremlin movements. The anti -communist campaign completed the ten thousandth procession of " Orthodox Communists! " Demonstrators carried photographs of priests shot by the Communists in the 1920-30s, and hundreds of temples destroyed by the Bolsheviks. “Our Communists have long called themselves Orthodox, but the whole history has proved that communism and Orthodoxy are incompatible,” the press secretary of “going together” Konstantin Lebedevexplained .

Campaign products "walking together"

As part of the movement, Lebedev campaigned for Putin in the 2004 presidential election.

"Totalitarianism, control over a person, infringement of freedoms and sincere love for the president seem absolutely incompatible to me. If we are talking about the totalitarian fear that a person experiences in front of the state machine, now he, on the contrary, leaves. With the advent of a strong president, who just excludes the fear of the power system with his personality, even the shadow of totalitarianism. They know: the president will figure it out, if you turn to him, he will certainly help the whole state car obeyed a specific person, which people see our love for the president every day for long years of uncertainty, from which the country finally begins to get out, ”Konstantin Lebedev in an interview with Belgazet .

Change of milestones

At the end of the summer of 2004, Konstantin Lebedev in the "Walking" did not work out, and a new man changed him as a post, and Lebedev himself left his movement. In October of the same year, he created a small organization " Change ", which went through political baptism in promotions on the Maidan in Kiev during the "Orange Revolution".

“For two months we breathed the air of the Maidan, froze in pickets, undermined the institutes, tracked the Yanychar on the instructions of our friends from the“ people ”-in general, we learned to work in the conditions of aggravated public expectations. We also listened to the moderately theoretical and practical course and learned that it turns out that all this perepil can be brewed even in kitchen conditions. But what is good for Ukraine, but that is good for Ukraine, but well for Ukraine, but well for Ukraine, but well for Ukraine. In Russia, it can turn out to be universally bloodletting or another economic reform, or not to turn out to be the most likely.

"It will be fun and scary"

In Russia, the “shift” became known later, thanks to the shares in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2005, joint shares with the OGF Harry Kasparov, participation in the organization and conduct of “marches of disagreed” in Moscow and the release of the newspaper of the same name for marches. Konstantin Lebedev and other participants in the movement entered the Coalition "Another Russia". When in 2008 the "marches of disagreements" came to naught, and the coalition fell apart, the opposition tried to create an alternative parliament - the national assembly; Konstantin Lebedev also took part in its creation. The Assembly could not declare herself and brought all her activities to the discussions of the political agenda on the organization’s website. After that, the "shift" was ceased to be audible, and Konstantin Lebedev was discovered in the political reserve of the Moscow city department of the ODD "Solidarity". He often flashed on round tables, debates, political trainings, traveled around Russia with other opposition. He took part in the " Millions Marshans ", " Strategies-31 ", was nominated in the Constitutional Court of the opposition . Until I hit the bars.

180 degrees

Konstantin Lebedev is not the only one who radically changed his views.

The uniform deputy Andrei Isaev in the late 80s was one of the leaders of the confederation of anarcho-syndicalists (CAS).

Former mayor of Kovrov, Irina Tabatskova , member of the Just Russia party, before becoming mayor, for many years was an activist of the NBP and headed the cell of the Limonov party in the Vladimir region.

Former magistrate Julia Sazonova condemned the mass of oppositionists for participating in protests. Even Harry Kasparov received several days of arrest from her, and Konstantin Lebedev was picked up by a bourgeois court with a poster of "Judge Sazonov - a faithful Beijes of the regime." Sazonova took off the judge’s mantle and joined the “white -open” movement.

The ex-leader of the anarchist movement "Libertan Breakthrough" Alexei Radov (son of writer Yegor Radov and musician Anna Gerasimova-"Umki") became one of the leaders of the political council of "Young Guard" United Russia ".

The artist, musician and actor Sergey Bugaev (Africa) in the 90s, together with composer Sergey Kuryokhin, joined the NBP. In 2012, Bugaev became a confidant of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.

Ex-deputy, member of the Fair Russia party , Gennady Gudkov before the rebirth into one of the leaders of the white-footed movement for a long timestigmatized the opposition .