Some people collect stamps. Some collect coins. As for me, my collection of astonishing trials keeps growing. I was tried at the Khimki police station, sitting directly beneath a portrait of Yagoda (Genrikh Yagoda, a Stalin-era Soviet secret police chief). Then I was tried in a general-regime penal colony, and they called it an “open hearing.” And now I am being tried behind closed doors in a maximum-security penal colony. In a way, this is the new sincerity. They are now saying it openly: we are afraid of you. Afraid of what you will say. Afraid of the truth. This is an important admission. And it has practical meaning for all of us. We must do, and are duty-bound to do, what they fear most: speak the truth, spread the truth. That is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has it. Use it.