The prosecutor has asked for 13 years for me in a maximum-security penal colony. If that sentence is the price of my human right to say what I believe needs to be said, and my civic right to fight for a better future for Russia, then they can ask for 113. I will not take back my words or what I have done. My comrades won’t either—and today I announced that the Anti-Corruption Foundation will not only survive, not only avoid being shut down or silenced, but will rise to a new global level of work by becoming an international organization, while keeping its focus on investigations into Kremlin thieves. Don’t worry about me. I’m completely okay, and the only thing that upsets me is that other people are worrying about me. I even asked Yulia not to come to the sentencing on March 22, and instead spend the day with Zakhar so that he wouldn’t hear the news from classmates or teachers. In my final statement, I spoke, of course, about the war (the beginning of that speech is in the carousel video). About how it became a direct consequence of corruption and degradation. A bloody cover for the failure of Putin’s regime. Right now, none of us should simply gasp, wring our hands, repent, and lament. Everyone must act. In their own way, as best they can, given their circumstances—but act. Clearly, as one of our great writers, Leo Tolstoy, bequeathed in the quote with which I ended my statement: “War is the product of despotism. Those who want to fight war must fight only despotism.”