In an interview with Novaya Gazeta, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova stated that she intends to protect the rights of prisoners, primarily those who are in the Mordovian colonies. “I want to destroy circular bail,” she said. This is a fairly common phenomenon when the sychecles in the colonies and in the camps become human rights activists.

In connection with the statements of V.V. Posner about M.B. Khodorkovsky was reminded of a historical anecdote about Nicholas II, of whom I am generally not a fan. But it's witty and appropriate for the occasion. So: a certain man, getting drunk in a tavern, spat on the portrait of Nicholas and received a real sentence for insulting His Imperial Majesty. The information, as they would say today, reached Nicholas himself, who imposed a resolution: 1.

In society Mediafiya. Subjects and citizens December 24, 2013 Igor Yakovenko The two final media events of the outgoing year-the press conference of Putin and Khodorkovsky-created such a bright and anatomically embossed portrait of the country that the most deep sociological studies could hardly add anything to this.

The Russian government gives society an amnesty and pardon as a good deed, but in fact it is a continuation of the eternal bondage. Russian lack of rights, hand on the heart, holds not only on strength, but also on public consent with it. It is expressed in the long -known formula that the severity of Russian laws is compensated by the optionality of their implementation. The laws themselves are on their own, and the application is in itself.

In the Kremlin Meeting of the State Council. Putin scolds, but they don't hear him December 24, 2013 Alexander Golts The chief chief of the country held a meeting with an extremely ridiculous name: "A joint meeting of the State Council and the commission for monitoring the achievement of targeted indicators of the country's development." Because from the speeches that sounded at the meeting, it followed: no development occurs at all.

Whatever you say, but still the Russian Orthodoxy is different from the Ukrainian. You only hear from the church fence: to keep and not let go. And on the Euromaidan, the UOC -MP priests calmly walk, write reports, participate in ecumenical prayers. Moreover, on the website of Kievan Rus, Archpriest Andrei Dudchenko hid the appeal in support of European integration, and he was already signed by more than ten representatives of the clergy.