You can live all your life, but this day will not come. The day you need to make the most important choice. And it is even good that many of us will not be able to survive such a day, because the choice may be painful. Unbearable. Viktor Stepanych had such a day in the summer of 1995, when he picked up the phone and said loudly: “Aleo! Shamil Basayev? This is Chernomyrdin! Shamil Basayev, speak louder!

The Day of National Unity, which successfully replaced the "Red Day of the calendar", can rightfully be considered a holiday of isolationism. And the point is not even that it takes place against the backdrop of rallies and processions of various nationalist forces, but in the mythologems accompanying it. Moderate patriots today make the requirements that many liberals share: personality inviolability, freedom of conscience, words, meetings and unions.

In Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, Democratic Union activist and journalist from Ulan-Ude Nadezhda Nizovkina and local city Duma deputy and Solidarity activist Natalya Filonova were detained. They were detained at the Trud stadium, where they stood with a banner “No to political repression!” They are at the police station for about six hours: they were detained at 13.35 local time, at 18.20 they signed the arrest report, but they refused to give them documents in their hands.

I am now in the police department building, there is a very conflictual situation here. At 18.20 local time we signed the arrest report, after which we could leave the duty station. But now it's night. The head of the department, Alexey Konovalenko, came here and said that big troubles awaited us. I'm afraid to go outside now. I fear for Nadya’s life and for mine. I have a small child waiting for me at home.

In the opposition Two big differences November 4, 2010 Mikhail Berg The discord in the ranks of Strategy-31 is no coincidence coincided with the first common victory of the movement. The permission by the authorities of the rally on the triumphant marked the border that really existed, but simply immediately became relevant. This border can be designated as the level of claims to the regime.