Hopelessness

Now my life consists of a "swamp business" and a pre -election campaign. As for the elections, I observe the traditional application of the administrative resource by the authorities and a serious discussion of possible assistance to my main competitor Yaroslav Kuzminov (who received the support of United Russia) from some opposition structures.

However, in the "Swamp business" is still worse. To the announcement of the sentence to Sergey Udaltsov and Leonid Razvoszhaev came very few people. Some of these people were simply not allowed not only into the meeting room, but even to the court building. One of the bailiffs at half -past in the evening refused to let me go to court on the grounds that the court was already closed after six. The fact that six hours have not yet been confused at all. Well, this is another step towards returning during the USSR, when dissidents were not allowed to political processes, even in those rare cases when the hearing took place in open mode.

Somehow these people do not want to show solidarity with political prisoners, because it is now "not in the trend." Not in trend and elections to the Moscow City Duma

The opposition’s reaction is also embarrassed. Yes, many of us do not agree with the position of the leader of the “Left Front” in Ukraine and many other issues. I am among these disagreements. But Udaltsov received four and a half years of the real term for his political activity, and the opposition did not even conduct a rally of protest for a couple of hundred people. Meanwhile, Udaltsov held a hunger strike for a month, demanding freedom to all prisoners on May 6, and his state of health worsens even from the summaries of the prison administration.

Two to three hundred people came on Monday to announce the verdict in the “case of four”. And the guys also received real terms - several years each. Only Elena Kokhtareva, who, as a sovereign nationalist, now supports Vladimir Putin, was happy with a conditional time and exposes the opposition. The authorities, seeing the lack of a reaction to any punitive actions, will continue to tighten the nuts and create an increasingly suffocating atmosphere in the country. After all, many of those who went to Bolotnaya and Sakharov, probably, are probably not aware that the courts in the “swamp case” are ongoing, and the demonstration participants on May 6, 2012 continue to receive real terms.

Somehow these people do not want to show solidarity with political prisoners, because it is now "not in the trend." Not in trend and elections to the Moscow City Duma. Many people, instead of helping at least a little to fight for votes of voters close to the views of opposition candidates, are leaving for a rest or to hell, and many are not at all ready to even come to the site to vote.

Nikolai Caucasian - member of the board of the Committee "For Civil Rights", a member of the Yabloko party and the left socialist movement. The former accused in the "Swamp case" was amnestied in December 2013. Candidate for the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party