Against the background of the insult that the authorities inflicted on the Pussy Riot as a sentence, I would like to return to two fundamental publications of recent times with the proposals of two diametrically opposite strategies - an article by Vladimir Pastukhov in Novaya Gazeta and Irina Pavlova in the Flays. How to deal with Putin’s arbitrariness, how to regain a dignity (if it was) in a police state, what can be done when the overwhelming force on the side of the hopurian is not true?

Apparently, there is no logic at all in the actions of our courts. I would like to understand on what basis they assess fines and sentences for offenses related to mass events and the notorious disobedience to the legal demands of police officers. But it seems it’s not meant to be.

In society Who are they? August 22, 2012 Alexey Kondaurov Who are they, these young healthy guys in the form of Russian police officers, first without any reason, delaying the great chess player Harry Kasparov, who was peacefully talking with journalists, then publicly beating him, and, satisfied with violence, lying around the world, that the chess champion allegedly caused bodily suffering, biting his finger?