How do Russian liberals relate to the West? Who are their supporters? What do quite sane democrats-intellectuals write about systemic and non-systemic opposition? What are they saying about Russia in an American university environment? Who is the supporter of our “right” in Europe and America? I decided to devote the cycle of articles to this by no means obvious topic. The Westernik needs to live in Russia. Here he has a strong position, how nowhere.

In the opposition The origin of man December 15, 2010 Alexander Ryklin There are many people who love to speculate on the topic whether Mikhail Khodorkovsky acted correctly, refusing to leave Russia in 2003. Say, than, as a warning, the arrest of Plato Lebedev can be considered right in the hospital. It was clear that he would be the next - the head of the Yukos. Mikhail Borisovich could not help but understand who began the war with his company and with him personally.

Left Front activist Sergei Udaltsov was sentenced by a magistrate court to 15 days of arrest for disobedience to legal demands of the police. He was detained on December 12 after an authorized rally on Pushkin Square, when he announced that he would go to the mayor’s office and convey the demands of those gathered there.

Our world lives in a stream of news, which have mainly one dimension - the present. If we are not explained by the reasons for what is happening right now, then the next day the time will already be missed. The news has no memory-they are like one-day butterfly. WikiLeaks is good because it makes it possible to go back.

President Dmitry Medvedev did not have to wait long this time. If for several days rumors had been leaking that the Moscow-St. -Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov announced this as a decision, Medvedev also said his word. True, through press secretary Natalya Timakova. According to her, “the president believes that the work with public organizations, civil society, and environmental organizations was done poorly” when designing the route, but now it is too late to change anything.

There are no explanations, and, in fact, there cannot be any. The judge is in the deliberation room. He said that the announcement was postponed, and that was all. The last time the verdict was announced in the Meshchansky Court, it was exactly the same: the announcement of the negotiations was postponed from April 27 to May 16, and we were not given any official explanation either. The only official reason for postponing a sentence is if the judge did not have time to write it.

On December 14, Evgeniy Bobrov, an employee of the Memorial human rights center, was brutally beaten at the door of his own house in the village of Selyapino, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region. Two people attacked him, knocked him down, and kicked him in the face and head. He suffered a concussion and lost vision in one eye. Bobrov was involved in protecting the rights of people who suffered damage as a result of housing issues.

In the opposition Why is it written "tolerated"? December 15, 2010 Roman Hahalin Today in the Khamovniki court there was an announcement that the announcement of the sentence to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev will begin on December 27. The reasons for the transfer are not named. Although, this is not Newton's bin, the reasons can be guessed.

The police responded to reports spread on the Internet that a gathering of Caucasians would take place near the Evropeisky shopping center on December 15 in response to the atrocities at Manezhnaya, and that Russian nationalists were also going to come there to continue the battle. Many called the first message a provocation; representatives of various official associations of Caucasian peoples and Muslims urged not to fall for it.

The announcement of the verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the Khamovnichesky Court, which was supposed to take place on December 15, was unexpectedly postponed to December 27. Moreover, information about this appeared only on the morning of December 15.

Picture of the day: Kuznetsky Most metro station; on the platform there is a young man of distinctly Caucasian appearance, with a Spartak scarf on his thin neck ... Maybe, of course, this is the grandson of Anzor Kavazashvili, who has been a fan of Spartak, hereditarily, since birth, but something in his eyes tells me that this scarf was tied around this neck quite recently. We even know the date, don't we?