On April 10, in the “News of the Week” program, Dmitry Kiselev said that Navalny is a spy recruited by William Browder either for MI6 or for the CIA. There were so many grammatical errors in the “CIA documents” shown in this program that it became clear to anyone who more or less speaks English: the people who compiled these documents ran the Russian text through an automatic translator.

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a New York performance by Sergei Zhadan, one of the leading poets of Ukraine, whom many consider worthy of claiming the rank of national poet - a vacancy, to slightly narrow Pasternak’s thought, in Russia is clearly empty.