Actually, I had a post prepared in two versions: one in case our initiative was rejected, and one in case it was supported.
However, I ended up having to write a third one, because after four hours of work, the Open Government expert group discovered that it did not have a quorum.
In the end, no one really understood what decision had been planned, but expert group member and Transparency International vice president Elena Panfilova reported the following:
The meeting will be held again.
You can read good reports on what happened today at the White House (the Russian government building in Moscow) on Slon and RBC.
Overall, the meeting was quite revealing in terms of judging how sane the people in power are.
If during the first two hours of the meeting all the journalists were quoting the hit line from the deputy interior minister, "All color revolutions in every country began under the slogan of fighting corruption," then in the second half even that fighter against revolutions was overshadowed by Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, who declared that the ACF was planning to bring about "a new '37'" (a reference to the Great Terror of 1937 in the USSR):
We’ll keep you posted.
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