In the opposition About Moscow elections. Part One July 24, 2013 George Satarov On July 19, on Facebook, I promised to write about the elections. The need for this was revealed precisely the events of the day counted from the moment the verdict was announced to Navalny and the Officer, and the discussion of these events through the prism of the Moscow elections. I am fulfilling a promise, and start, in the order of introduction, with a small fragment from a certain novel about the war.

In the opposition Cinema from the prosecutor July 24, 2013 Alexander Podrabinek The "Swamp" promises to become the process of the century. Not in the sense of its uniqueness and drama, but in the sense of protractedness and meaninglessness. If the Kremlin law enforcement officers are better formed and thoroughly brought up, they would have made other reasons to accuse the opposition of all mortal sins.

Alexey Navalny committed an act of self -immolation. The probability of being arrested and convicted, expelled or killed, if you are gaining popularity as a potential political leader in Russia, is the probability of being burnt if you seduce yourself with gasoline and struck a match. The laws of political survival work in the same way as the laws of physics. Optimism is inappropriate. The verdict in the case of Alexei Navalny will not affect the course of historical events in Russia.

The children of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed in October 2006, refused to participate in the trial for the murder of their mother. A statement by Vera and Ilya Politkovsky published on the Novaya Gazeta website says: “Today, July 23, judge of the Moscow City Court Melekhin refused to satisfy our legal request to postpone the court hearing to next week.

In the opposition Navalny as a mirror of the Russian intelligentsia July 24, 2013 Mikhail Berg I must say that the incident of Navalny today is not as simple for me as it seemed until recently. I understand those who demanded the unconditional liberation of Navalny in a lawless Putin court, are ready to continue to defend his right to freedom, but cannot support Navalny as a politician with mayor and presidential ambitions, who had tarnished himself with nationalist statements and actions.

Six LGBT activists were detained on Kaluga Square opposite the Central Children's Library, where one of them, Alexey Davydov, stood with a poster “It’s okay to be gay,” and the other five were simply standing nearby.