The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation has published lists of new compositions of public observation commissions for monitoring the places of imprisonment in 42 Russian regions. "Public control has died"- this is (in different variations) the general reaction of the human rights community to this news. In the Radio Studio Liberty and on video communication with us, members of public observation commissions in Moscow Anna Karetnikova and Eva Merkacheva. In Syktyvkara, Ernest Mesak, in Chelyabinsk- Valery Prikhodkin.