“We burned it on an iron saucer.” That’s what my jailers said when we were in court over a letter that was never delivered to me. In fact, it was the only letter officially destroyed by censorship in nearly a year and a half. “Burned on an iron saucer” became a local meme. As for letters the prison administration didn’t like, they dealt with those more simply. They just “disappeared.” But the election is getting closer. And one Kremlin grandpa is worried that someone might unsettle the public by talking about how he is nowhere near 80% support. So, in addition to the arrests of lawyers, here’s the latest news. A solemn delegation came to see me in the punishment cell (SHIZO, a Russian prison disciplinary isolation cell) to draw up an “official report” stating that 15 incoming and outgoing letters had been confiscated by prison censors. The reason given was that all of these letters discussed preparations for committing crimes. Among them, for example, was a letter to Yulia with a letter to Zakhar inside it. They’re right when they say child prodigies are different these days: he’s 15—at that age, someone else would just be riding a bike, but this one is already preparing crimes. A letter to Mediazona editor-in-chief Smirnov @sssmirnov—we were discussing books and history. Highly criminal. A letter to Ilya Krasilshchik @ilya.krasilshchik—with him, we have a kind of philosophizing schizophrenia: correspondence about the new emigration, the nationalities question, and politics. Suspicious. A kind person who graduated from MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) has been patiently trying to explain to me the physics of radar, air defense, drones, and other devices of modern warfare. Confiscated. So, roughly speaking, this used to be called “20 years without the right to correspondence,” and now I have 20 years with no formal limits on letters, but censorship burns them on an iron saucer. And there is only one conclusion: the throne seat in the underground bunker at Novo-Ogaryovo (the state residence outside Moscow associated with Putin) is turning into a hot iron saucer. The owner of the throne is jumping up and demanding that everyone keep quiet. He hopes that will make it cooler. But we will not be silent. We must not be silent 😉