We want everyone to hear this story, and we would be grateful if you shared it with people you know.
To many people, all these “arrests-detentions-searches-seizures” seem like reports from someone else’s life. First, they think it could never happen to them. And second—and you hear this often—“well, nobody died.”
Putin has turned our state into a machine for making money for his friends, relatives, and former colleagues. Part of that machine is what used to be called the “law enforcement agencies.” Now it is just hired muscle, whose job is to drag away and beat over the head anyone who asks the question: why, exactly, should all of Russia have to work for the Rotenbergs, Millers, Sechins, and Usmanovs?
There has been no real rule of law for a long time. If you ask that question, one rule kicks in: give them a person, and they’ll find a charge.
The machine hacks and cuts. Sometimes it ends someone’s life. Well yes—when wood is chopped, chips fly.
On September 29 at 3:00 p.m., there will be a rally on Sakharov Avenue. Come. Our country needs the rule of law, not these black masks pulled over shameless mugs.