The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Vladimir Lukin, declared the refusal to approve the “March of Dissent” on May 6 to be illegal. He wrote about this in a response letter to human rights activist Lev Ponomarev. Lukin recognizes the actual ban on the march in Moscow on May 6 as illegal.

The trouble is not only that we are embarrassed to ask when we don’t know something. The trouble is that we are not asking for those. We ask about the business of 30-year-old consultants who have not created a single company and have encountered competition only when applying for a job. About politics in experts who did not participate in any election campaign. About freedom of speech among journalists. About the love of the divorced. About freedom among philosophers ...

There is no happiness in life! All these long weeks after it became known that Yavlinsky was supposedly called to power (although “to power”, of course, I bent it down... Well, let’s say, to power) your humble servant knocked on trees, trying not to miss a single one, and literally spat over his left shoulder - as long as it didn’t fall off, so long as it didn’t fall off. It fell apart, of course.

In the opposition Games of human rights activists May 14, 2008 Alexander Podrabinek The “strange” seemed to Alexander Ryklin the silence of human rights activists that the power of everyone once again deceived. She promised not to touch the protesters on May 6 and deceived.

There is a simple law of conservation of political energy: for nothing there is only death, nothing will come out of nothing. For example, we see a desperate political struggle on TV between US presidential candidates. You need to expend enormous amounts of energy and take enormous risks to break into the White House. But when you are elected - by any arbitrary margin (Bush-Gore, 2000) - you are a full-fledged president. You have already spent the energy needed to take power in public shows.

There is censorship in Russia, and no one has abolished it since Stalin’s times, as current practice has shown. Unfortunately, we live in a state that interferes in matters of aesthetics. It is important to understand that the exhibition “Forbidden Art – 2006” was a purely artistic project. If art continues to be censored by the state, then one can only quote Pasternak: “What kind of millennium are we in, dear ones?” I consider this criminal trial shameful.

Holly Cartner, head of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch in Europe and Central Asia, said on Wednesday that Russian authorities should stop persecuting the director of the Sakharov Museum, Yuri Samodurov. “Russian authorities have used anti-extremist legislation to silence politicians. Now they are using it to suppress the voice of artists and to persecute a famous human rights activist,” Cartner said.

Caught in the net MAY 14, 2008 SVETLANA SOLODOVNIK A round table held before the holidays at the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church caused an interested discussion in religious circles. In fact, the meeting was devoted to the topic of intra-church conflicts, but in connection with it others arose - in particular, the planned creation of a church court and the participation of priests in Internet discussions, mainly in LiveJournal.