The trial in the new Khodorkovsky-Lebedev case has begun and, as they say, has begun. The beginning turned out loud: this included an unprecedented number of journalists covering the trial, and eyewitness accounts of Khodorkovsky’s appearance near the court. “Short-haired, gray-haired Mikhail Borisovich in a black coat shouting “Shame!” comes to court.

Three members of the banned National Bolshevik Party were detained in Moscow on March 9. A criminal case has been opened against Mikhail Pulin, Pavel Zherebin and Alena Goryacheva under the article “hooliganism”. Member of the NBP Executive Committee Alexander Averin, in an interview with Ekho Moskvy, said that the reason was “a certain incident” that occurred in November 2008 and was regarded by the opposition as a provocation.

A new trial has begun in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Yukos company. There is no point in discussing the charges brought against Khodorkovsky. If a robber stabbed a passerby with a knife and took his wallet, then it makes no sense to discuss whether the robber is telling the truth that his victim did not pay child support.

It seems to me that this resignation, firstly, has been prepared for a long time and, secondly, this is, perhaps, the last of the removals or, rather, replacements of the so-called heavyweights.

Murtaza Rakhimov, president of the Republic of Bashkiria since 1993, will most likely be dismissed in the near future, Vedomosti wrote on March 10. He could be replaced by a St. Petersburg native of Bashkiria, the head of the Housing Committee of St. Petersburg, Yunis Lukmanov, or a KGB native from Bashkiria, a KGB veteran, an acquaintance of Putin, currently a member of the Federation Council from the Bashkir parliament, Rudik Iskuzhin.

The conversation about “Russia after Putin”, started by Alexander Osovtsov, is extremely important - but not as a scenario, but as a symptom. Unfortunately, the opposition's attention is overly focused on the figure of the prime minister; he is seen not just as the personification of the regime, but also as its guarantor and support, as the main and only character. Like the regime itself. The state is him. Let us congratulate the Kremlin administration on its convincing victory.

On the topic of how to relate to the suggestion of Shoigu to introduce criminal liability for the denial of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic (or World War II?) War, only the lazy did not speak out of political publicists. A few days later, the Yabloko party, at the suggestion, is said, Yavlinsky himself, who was silent for many, many months, proposed to introduce criminal responsibility for the justification of Stalinist repressions.