I read Kashin’s article on this topic with great interest. http://www.ng.ru/ng_politics/2007-07-03///9_kurs.html Some kind of total trash is going on. Speaking of blackmail, Zharkov is referring to a post on the blog of Timofey Shevyakov, a friend and colleague of Pavel Danilin, in which Zharkov’s home address was made public, along with threats from Danilin himself to “seek satisfaction.” “After this publication, fearing for my safety, I will be forced to leave Moscow,” the historian says. “My parents—elderly pensioners living alone—live at that address, and I am very worried about their safety.” Pasha-leteha, were you really planning to beat up some historian and his elderly retired parents? I can just imagine what it would look like: A big, red-haired, pot-bellied guy, shouting “Glory to the Kremlin and Gazprom,” breaks down the door. Behind it, an old man in glasses, squealing thinly, tries to fend him off with a July 1904 issue of the journal Osvobozhdenie (“Liberation”).... All in all, it’s an instructive story. And Yuriyev’s phrase, "he wanted to set the presidential administration against professional historians," is simply a complete and all-encompassing description of the idiocy of our public and political life. On every side of it.