How they broke dissidents in the 70s and what methods of exposure are used today “The Case of the Yukos”, “The Case of Kirovles”, “Swamp Business”-the demonstration processes of recent years make us recall the 70s of the last century: then the methods of influence of KGB investigators on dissidents were not much different from today. In resistance, as forty years ago, and now it was and is everything: heroism, betrayal, and broken people.

On September 24, the defendant in the “Swamp business” Sergey Krivov announced the hunger strike because he was not introduced to the protocols and did not allow applications. The New Times met him in a pre-trial detention center in January, when he also starved because of an unjust arrest The other day, Krivov was nevertheless transferred to a single camera. He told his wife Kira on a date on January 18 and complained that it was cold in the cell.

On September 23, Pussy Riot, a member of the Pussy Riot group in the IK-14 Mordovian colony, announced a hunger strike in connection with a violation of the rights of convicted women in production in the sewing workshop. Tolokonnikova also applied to the Investigative Committee with a statement on the threat of murder by the deputy head of the colony of Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov.