Scolding - it means that we exist

On March 5, 1616, the judicial authority of the Catholic Church, the Congregation of the Index, announced the decree on the ban on the spread and publication of texts, which reflects the heliocentric theory of Copernicus. After 17 years, this decree became the basis for the persecution and condemnation of Galileo Galileo. The tragic story of life and the struggle for his ideas by Giordano Bruno, Copernicus and Galileo Galileo is a history of confrontation, in the center of which is not an astronomical aspect as such, but the question of the central place of man in the universe. It was as if the heliocentric system excluded. The church power was frightened, first of all, the idea that the earth, the whereabouts of man as the final goal of the creation of the world, was pushed from its central position in the divine universe. A dangerous precedent for the loss of a monopoly on a person’s self -love and weakening control over him was created. After all, many could have formed an awareness of how small people actually occupy in the universe.

Perhaps I am a little exaggerating, but the Kremlin’s approximately similar reaction was caused by the recent opposition forum in Vilnius and the reaction of Lithuania authorities to the rudeness of the soldiers of the Kremlin propaganda army, who exhibited insolents and rude ones. The very fact that in the Baltic states is so close to Russia, but still legally inaccessfully far within the defense of the EU jurisdiction and the Agreement on the mutual defense of NATO countries-a group of forced representatives of the Russian opposition gathered for free discussion, was so unusual for those who rule in Russia, which was even lifted to mention the names of people gathered in Vilnius.

The flows of Orwell two-minute hatred fell on the consciousness of my unfortunate fellow citizens in the endless current shows of talking heads. The audience was reminded before that the names of Kasparov, Illarionov, Kokha, banned on federal channels. The Kremlin has been inspiring Russia's citizens for a year and a half that there is no real opposition to the current government. That there are no alternatives. Any collection of disagreements, their participation in the elections should go through a humiliating procedure in the authorities of the opportunity to publicly get together to talk or rally, through a difficult coordination of the place of events. And after that you need to live with fear: for protest can be tracked, listened, judged, put to prison, select property, kill. The possibility of avoiding this is two: be silent or go abroad. Just as it was with the rebellious astronomers of the Middle Ages.

We are not invisible! We are not all interrupted yet, not everyone is driven into reservations and abroad. We are in capitals, regions and abroad. We refuse to be silent

No matter what the Levada Center claims there-supposedly 27% of citizens believe that in Russia there is no political opposition that 26% of citizens surveyed believe that the country is not needed by the opposition-we are! Yes, many of us have been abroad in recent years. For example, as forced last year to escape and ask for asylum in the Czech Republic with his family, my same -party in the Libertarian party Vladimir Strap, after threats from the security forces. Or, as if in the millstones of unrighteous justice, my friend Libertarian Alexander Horrshr, a participant in the protest actions of the “Equal Movement”, whose activists also posted the flags of Ukraine on high -rise buildings in Moscow. But we are not invisible! We are not all interrupted yet, not everyone is driven into reservations and abroad. We are in capitals, regions and abroad. We refuse to be silent.

As a supporter of private property, a market economy, curbing the people of the bureaucracy, I can say: no antics of Putin and his environment will help. The actions taken without taking into account the opinions of citizens (such as the input of Russian troops into Syria or the withdrawal of troops from Syria, the actual occupation of the territories of Ukraine and Georgia, bombing through five borders with rockets from ships) will not save the position of trembling power. The growing number of unreasonable initiatives will only expand the support of the protesters. For example, as a revenge on the rebel against the Plato system, to truckers, it is possible to regard the ideas of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ban registration of buses and trucks for individuals and return the old practice when freight transport could be recorded only for legal entities, that is, for transport companies. The economy of an open society is free trade and protection of property rights, equal legal rights and opportunities, in the center of which are not an official, not a civil servant who does not depend on the pension of the pension established by the state, but a free citizen and entrepreneur. I believe that gradually different groups of citizens (and their number will grow day by day) will become closer to the understanding of which of the politicians really stands on the guard of their rights, and who fills the pockets of friends, gets involved in international conflicts and bring down the country's economy imposed for political hooliganism by sanctions.

Naj Gasanov - a civil activist, a member of the Libertarian Party of Russia, lives in Nizhnevartovsk