"Never the case was - and here again!" Some Aphorisms of Chernomyrdin are close to genius, but this one, very beloved, still turns out to be poorer than my reality. That is, in the first part - indisputable and banal truth. But only in the first - they have not yet survived to the second. I am about the elections. They say that I myself wrote many times - "imitation democracy." It seems that you can’t argue - we imitate. Only-what are we imitating?

The case against Rumyantsev was initiated based on his speech at a rally in Voronezh. The speech was recorded - there were journalists there, and the recording recorded that Rumyantsev said words that fit well into Article 282: about the “dominance of Caucasians” (obvious incitement on a national basis).

In fact, the most stupid thing about elections is not the “equal opportunities” of candidates, and not the election funds, which in theory should not be enough for a couple of posters in the center of Moscow, and not even the voting results themselves. There is nothing more stupid than declarations of income and property of candidates.

In mid-October, Vladimir Bukovsky, a famous Soviet dissident who launched a campaign to expose political abuses in Soviet psychiatry, visited Moscow; served 12 years in prisons, camps and psychiatric hospitals; exchanged in 1976 for the General Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party, Luis Corvalan. We were driving early on a foggy morning from Domodedovo airport, and along the road, as if in mockery, billboards advertising some men’s magazine “Where have you been all these years?” flashed by.

The Investigation Department of the Voronezh Region Prosecutor's Office has charged Dmitry Rumyantsev, a member of the political council of the unofficial association National Socialist Society, with publicly inciting racial hatred, ITAR-TASS reports. On July 21 of this year, a rally was held in Voronezh, at which Rumyantsev spoke.