The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that Ukraine refused to grant refugee status to Russian Socialist Movement activist Philip Galtsov. Galtsov was interrogated as a witness as part of the investigation of the Bolotnaya case, and he was brought in for questioning by force, without being allowed to call a lawyer, and investigator Timofey Grachev, as he claimed, threatened him.

About the current situation In a previous article, I called the Putin's political regime of a plebiscite dictatorship. This definition is not enough to deal with the situation and its dynamics, but it is enough to answer one of the important questions: when and under what conditions our attempts to change the regime with the help of participation in the elections will become meaningless and useless? The answer is obvious: when the dictatorship ceases to be plebiscite.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in connection with insults against Duma deputies Elena Mizulina and Olga Batalina on the Internet. Earlier, legislators deigned to complain to the prosecutor's office about the scoundrel Nikolai Alekseev, the organizer of Moscow gay prides, who, they say, spoke unkindly about illustrious persons on Twitter.

The fleeting, conducted in the stuffy vacation marvel of Moscow, the election campaign for the mayor’s election unexpectedly gained sharpness and became interesting to many. This partly happened thanks to a set of stupid things and absurdities committed by power over the past month. One arrest and liberation of Navalny, followed by the sequence of the State Duma with stickers and slogans, is worth it! So the elections may well be legitimate in terms of the number of those who came to them.

The hopes that with the departure of the summer holidays Arkady Mamontov, Dmitry Kiselev and a number of other mediasturmovites, citizens of Russia can relax and enjoy life, have not been justified. The same thing happened as 85 years ago, when many hoped that social harmony and peace would grow with advance to communism.

I carefully watched the video from the market twice... So what did we see? Formally, an episode involving “law enforcement officials” and “a group of citizens.” But in reality, of course, no! We saw a conflict episode involving members of different factions who met not yesterday. They already have a well-established and established relationship. And, of course, it’s clear which ones. That’s why, in fact, the cops behave so strangely.