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On Tuesday, the Moscow City Duma Commission on monumental art decided not to return the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanskaya Square. According to RIA Novosti, members of the commission substantiated their refusal by the fact that the return of the monument "will symbolize terror, the formation of the first camps and the expulsion of the intelligentsia." “No argumentation is needed - the correct decision has already been made repeatedly,” they added

The founder of the project “1917, wrote about how and by whom the decision was made to free Navalny, in his book“ All the Kremlin A army ”. Free story ”Mikhail Zygar, who at that time worked as the chief of the channel“ Rain ”. According to the journalist, as soon as the verdict was announced in Kirov, Vladimir Putin gathered a meeting with the participation of the current speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, who was then the deputy head of the presidential administration and oversaw domestic policy. “Putin said that to plant Navalny means to make a hero out of him, as this happened to Khodorkovsky. It is much more efficient to make it out of outcast and marginal. He needs to be released and allow him to make all the mistakes himself, ”Zygar, who sounded at a meeting, retells.