On July sixth, the duration of the Jesuit procedure invented by the Kremlin for the sole purpose has expired - to create a formally legal barrier on the path of opposition candidates for various legislative bodies. In this case, we are talking about elections to the Moscow City Duma.

PACE surrender took place. Alas, with the active support of many Russian human rights defenders. Many, but, fortunately, not all. It seems to me that these are not tactical disagreements, but much more serious - comparable with the 1993 crisis. In the main thing, this is again the question of the goal and means. Is it permissible to neglect the principles for the sake of the result?