Around Russia The results of the week. Halturic Simulakra October 23, 2009 Alexander Golts Being on vacation, he was forced to receive leading from his homeland through the RTR "Planet" channel. I was no longer surprised that I was not observing from the screen that the country in which I had the happiness to live. He was surprised at the complete and final loss of professionalism.

The scandal surrounding Marina Litvinovich’s article “Most Changes” caused so much noise that it brought to life completely comic characters. Shaking off the mothballs, even the once famous “political consultant” (as he calls himself) Gleb Pavlovsky added his own. Commenting on the reaction of the UCF to the exotic proposals of Ms. Litvinovich, Mr. Pavlovsky said: “And such people are trying to teach something - me, Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin?..”.

The European Court of Human Rights rejected the claim of war journalist Grigory Pasko, who was convicted in 2001 of spying for Japan. Pasko worked for the Pacific Fleet newspaper “Battle Watch” and collaborated with Japanese television and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The FSB decided that he was transferring classified materials about the fleet to Japan, and in 1997 accused him of treason.

In the opposition The effect of presence October 23, 2009 Mikhail Delyagin The combination of several (practically in a row) visits to the process of MB Khodorkovsky and P.L. Lebedev, with the subsequent acquaintance with what is happening there, only according to eyewitnesses, allowed me to look at the process under two different points of view. And their comparison caused an extremely unpleasant sensation.

The Prosveshchenie publishing house published a textbook and methodological guide on the history of Russia in the first half of the 20th century, edited by Alexander Danilov and Alexander Filippov. A year ago, the textbook concept posted on the publisher's website caused heated public debate . Then its developers shocked public opinion with a number of discouraging judgments.

Of course, I regard this award as being awarded not to the three of us, but, as stated, to representatives of Memorial and other Russian human rights organizations. In fact, in our person this is a prize for the Russian human rights movement. I think this is very correct. Therefore, I feel inner satisfaction: it is right now, at this very time, to give an award - no matter in whose person - to Russian human rights defenders.