It’s clear what needs to be done. You just don’t want to do it.

While the court here drones through documents (the appeal in the Yves Rocher case), let me draw your attention to an excellent column in Vedomosti by one of Russia’s leading economists, Konstantin Sonin.

He is essentially commenting on Putin’s now-famous remark at a recent anti-crisis meeting: "Everything seems clear enough, but what exactly should be done is unclear."

What needs to be done right now is perfectly clear, Konstantin is basically saying.

Now take a look at the demands of the anti-crisis march "Spring", which will take place on March 1 in several cities:

Almost word for word.

It’s not that we somehow read K. Sonin’s mind. And it’s not that K. Sonin wrote his column based on Spring’s supposedly brilliant demands.

These demands are not brilliant. They’re obvious—to Sonin, with his million diplomas, degrees, and honorary certificates on the wall, and to Uncle Petya on the street, with nothing more than a decent higher education and life experience.

So it’s clear what needs to be done. They just don’t want to do it.

Everyone to the march (so they have an incentive to start wanting to).