I came across a pretty hellish interview with Morozov, the former head of the Presidential Administration’s Domestic Policy Directorate.
Nothing especially unusual—just the usual mix of lies and rudeness.
- Russia is a far more liberal democracy than Europe, and others should learn from us.
- You’ve got Navalny sitting under your blouse, feeding you the questions.
- Our elections are very fair, and everyone is allowed to take part in them.
I found this particular passage interesting:
So once again the opposition is supposed to answer for 1996 and other times from the age of King Pea (a Russian expression meaning the distant past).
Since earlier in the text I was, for some reason, counted as part of the liberal opposition, here is my report: in 1996, what I was up to was studying in my third year at the law faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University.
In that same year, 1996, a certain V.V. Putin, who was not in the opposition at all, entered Kremlin service—in the Property Management Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation. The very same Yeltsin on whose behalf the electoral process so negatively assessed by Comrade Morozov was organized.
So who here is supposed to answer, and to whom, for the horrors committed in 1996?