"Silence has already ceased to be a saving amulet." Speech by Yuri Dudia about police arbitrariness and falsifications in the elections

Journalist Yuri Dud on September 10 received the GQ Prize “Man of the Year” in the nomination “Faces from the screen”. At the presentation ceremony, Dud said a speech in which he urged not to be silent about political repressions, police arbitrariness and falsifications in the elections. Here is its decoding.

Now you will think that I finally broke away from the ground and began to preach on the third GQ figurine , but there is no need to perceive it as a sermon. Just think that this is a little wish, or maybe even a request. Even more correctly - a request. Because, despite the fact that I am already in the fourth ten, I still, as I understand it, are younger than most of those who are present in this hall.

I have a request. When in Russia next time the next ordinary passers -by with batons will be blown, when they will steal the next wagon of state money, when they will throw a new pack of waste paper into the electoral urn, I really ask you to talk about it, and not be silent.

It seems to me that the silence has already ceased to be a saving amulet. If you are silent, it does not mean that you are in the house. They can come to any house, even if this house is on the Rublevo-Uspensky highway. And since there is no difference, then I do not understand why you need to meet lawlessness with silence, and not meet him face to face.

I understand that many will say: “Listen, Yorets, we all understand, everyone is sorry, everything is hard, we all understand, we agree with everything, but I really do not want to lose the craft, I really do not want to lose self -realization.” Here I can quote only one important Russian punk group : "He who has brains and hands will never die of hunger and boredom." Even I could find some work. You are much smarter, much more educated and just better than me, so I'm sure that you can find such a job much easier. Thank you very much.

Kinocritic Anton Dolin and director Kirill Serebrennikov, who received awards after Dudia, in their speeches at the ceremony also mentioned political prisoners. Serebrennikov called the “people” of the protest shares in Moscow, and the Dolin recalled Konstantin Kotov , noting that he “had never got into jail.”