DAY 3: 15 million 540 thousand 745 rub.

The campaign "Stop the lawlessness, help The New Times!"

It was an absolutely incredible day: in the morning there were less than 8 million, by 15 o'clock in the afternoon - 11 million, when I came to Echo to broadcast - about 13 million, and went out - more than 2 million more. I gave my phone, which received text messages from Sberbank, to the secretaries of Echo: the phone was constantly buzzing and blinking lights - these were transfers. During the 55 minutes that I was on the air, 247 transfers came.

SMS shouted: “Let them know that we are not slaves”, “We need you!”, “Eburg is with you! Be sure to hold on." "Zeya, the Amur Region with you", "Koryazhma with you!" - Zapolyarny of the Murmansk region, Vladimir, Cheboksary were with us - and, "with respect", Finland is also with us, although it left the Empire a century ago, Tomsk promised that we would break through, Bryansk, Novosibirsk, pensioners from Tolyatti, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg , Chelyabinsk, Tula remembered the old dissident slogan "for our and your freedom! . The woman often regretted - “strength to you!”, wrote: “to help the magazine that I believe”, men urged to hold on, not give up, not a step back, claimed: “it’s time to break the ice” ... About 20 thousand translations, on average from 500 to 1000 rubles, geography - almost the entire country and, at least, its entire European part, age, gender, national variation: messages from Talgat Gayratovich, Oleg Ivanovich, Armen Vagoevich, Igor Lazarevich literally came in a row. "Good luck to you. I am 83 years old, ”wrote Yuri Nikolayevich. In the afternoon, a complete hype began: transfers from famous people rained down - the former Deputy Minister of Economy of the Russian Federation Sergey Belyakov, whom Prime Minister Medvedev fired for an apology on Facebook due to the fact that the government again froze the funded part of pensions, the widow of Yegor Gaidar and the daughter of Arkady Strugatsky - Maria Arkadyevna Strugatskaya, founder of The New Times Irena Lesnevskaya (she wrote: “Of course, it’s a pity to throw this money into an insatiable mouth, but we saw a huge number of normal, freedom-loving and decent people in the country who understand that a breath of freedom and truth can’t become a gag!”), the head of the Central Bank in the 1990s Sergey Dubinin with some absolutely deafening amount and his deputy Sergey Aleksashenko, deputy finance minister in the nineties and deputy head of the Central Bank in the 2000s Oleg Vyugin, one of the best economists world and the most cited woman economist in Europe Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. Someone simply translated, someone considered it necessary to substantiate their position. Victor Shenderovich: “I consider the considerations that it is senseless to be quite senseless. This is a demonstration of the possibilities of a free society. This is a form of pressure on their psyche and a reminder that they are ***** (corrupt women, Shenderovich, of course, is a sexist, because there are no less corrupt men -NT.), and we are people. It is a form of self-identification and cohesion.”

Alexei Navalny: "For me, this is a simple situation. I like the magazine, I read it and would like to read more. Such demonstrative rudeness with closure, unlimited fines and unlimited courts is an action against me."

Tatyana Felgenhauer formulated an answer to those who endlessly write that everything is useless, we will pay 22 million, they will give 220 million: “When I see pretentious arguments that it is stupid to collect 22 million, that there will be a new fine, etc. one and the same thought: what if this logic is extended to fees for animal rights activists, ecologists, operations for sick children and adults, to Russia Sitting or the Vera Hospice Assistance Fund? That is, before you make a donation, you will require a certificate from a doctor that a person will be saved, and the disease will never return? That trees will stop being cut down? That people in prison will stop being tortured? That in the hospice everyone will recover? And only after you have been provided with all the required evidence and guarantees, will you make the transfer?”

Extracts from Alfa-Bank represent the entire spectrum of Russian journalism: the Ural newspaper Znak, Alexei Venediktov, Yulia Taratuta and Mikhail Fishman, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Grigory Revzin, Ksenia Larina, Anton Krasovsky, Ksenia Sobchak, Natalya Sindeeva - it is impossible to list them all. And of course, my colleagues in the magazine: Zoya Svetova, Boris Yunanov, Lyuba Tsukanova, Ivan Davydov - we lived together not the worst years.

And there are people who are unknown to me, but whom I would very much like to find and personally thank: Levan Emzarovich Gorozia, Alexander Leonidovich Viktorov, Irina Eduardovna Rappoport - if you suddenly read, firstly, many thanks for your generosity, secondly, write, call - I would like to ask you a question: why?

So, it remains to collect plus or minus 7 million. The day before yesterday it seemed completely unrealistic, yesterday it was very difficult, but, as one of my colleagues wrote to me, “something incredible is happening, and this says a lot not only about the attitude towards the magazine, but also about the country.” We seem to have a chance. And I don't mean just the magazine.