There is no more former life and never will

Friends, hello.

We live in another country again. There is no more former life and never will be. In the coming and still advancing new reality, the well -known and unknown is equally dangerous for people.

Never before in our lives there have been such cursed days. Now we live in them. It will be very difficult to live this time and survive it. Huge moral forces will be required.

How to live?

The most important thing is that you need to survive as we are. To preserve yourself free people in a non -free country. Do not renounce yourself.

To bear responsibility for those who are dear to us and depends on us. Keep human relations. Supporting relatives, friends, friends, all like -minded people.

Do not change your beliefs, even if there is no way to express them anywhere. Do not support evil. Do not participate in evil.

It is important to understand that we are right. We have not gone crazy, we see everything correctly. We did not confuse good and evil in places.

The shock that millions of people survived was a huge test for everyone. We are overwhelmed with anxiety for relatives and friends.

I understand those who left and leave, especially saving children. I respect and accept your choice. Let everything turn out well, wherever you are. Start a new life.

I respect those who remained - consciously or forced. It will be very difficult for us.

Repressions will grow and, perhaps, will affect so many. Solidarity and support will help us preserve civil society even underground. Excerpt and patience will help us act.

In what forms in such a situation will be possible in our country a public opposition political work, no one knows. But we will see.

We, the Yabloko party, will engage in legal policy in Russia as much as it will be possible physically. We cannot protect all of you, but we can be with you. Live this terrible time together.

All human rights and freedoms go from Russia - primarily freedom of speech. I sympathize with reporters who were forced to stop or stop work. You did everything you could.

My deepest respect and solidarity to journalists who continue professional work in such conditions. You keep the oxygen of truth for all of us. Each of you is a citizen of the highest sample.

Many feelings overwhelm us. It can be very difficult to cope with them. It will be as difficult for us as never in life. But we should not have despair.

History does his job. It is impossible to stop it. Time does his job. It is impossible to stop it. Life does its job. No one could ever and could argue with them, no one can withstand them. It is impossible to change the direction of movement of time.

In such dramatic and tragic times, the course of history is accelerated. No one will say now what will happen, what will happen not only tomorrow, but today, at any moment. You need not to fall to your knees. You need to survive and live.

The story itself tells us - do not despair. We accept the time in which we found ourselves, and his ominous challenge. Yes, the political and social forces of evil and good are not equal today. But this does not mean anything except that we are in the minority today. So far, in the minority.

The main thing is that we are. We have human dignity, the consciousness of our rightness, an understanding of the power of history.

The pendulum of time will inevitably push off the point of madness and begin movement towards the mind. It is very important that each of us can always calmly tell ourselves: I have been with people, I did not change myself, I did not commit evil, I did what I should.

And we will see what will happen.

Thank you.

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