Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Secretary of the Public Chamber E.P. Verekhov, E.N. Glagoleva Dear Evgeny Pavlovich and Elena Nikolaevna! Thank you for the invitation to participate in the plenary meeting of the Public Chamber on December 24, 2008. I cannot take advantage of this invitation for reasons that have been repeatedly published by public activists and independent public organizations during the creation of your chamber.

On December 24, the Dimitrovgrad City Court granted the request of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, found guilty of murdering Chechen Elza Kungaeva, for parole. Budanov has been in prison for eight and a half years and has filed a petition four times. It is interesting that the prosecutor's office insisted on his release.

The first thought that came to my mind after I saw on the non -nonsense of the scene of the brutal dispersal of the rally in Vladivostok: "They were completely distraught." The second thought was about the same, but was formulated already in a much more rude form. Because it is simply impossible to imagine a less adequate reaction of our power to the just rising wave of civil protest against Putin’s anti-crisis program.

In recent weeks, the media, public and political figures, cultural and scientific figures, and the opposition have been quite actively discussing the abolition of jury trials for those accused under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation under investigation by the FSB and the expansion of the grounds for prosecution under Articles 275, 276 and 283 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (high treason, espionage, disclosure of state secrets).

The Russian People's Democratic Union (RNDU), which is headed by former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, published a political statement on December 24 in which it named those responsible for the current systemic crisis. A systemic crisis, according to the statement, combines an economic, social and political crisis.

The idea of ​​creation is clearly visible only to the creator. Actions that are thought out and justified by a high goal, from the outside sometimes seem disordered, chaotic and inappropriate. This is due to a misunderstanding of the overall plan. Although how can we understand it if the creator does not share his thoughts with anyone?