Finally got access to the internet. For the first time, I couldn’t even read a third of the comments about the debate. It’s impossible to reply "thank you" in the comments to everyone who supported me. So let me say it to everyone at once: THANK YOU. Special thanks to everyone who came to the police station, waited for me to be released, offered help with lawyers, etc. I’ve decided to get a lawyer after all. First, just in case. Second, as the organizers of the debate, we’ll be hiring a lawyer as the injured party and will pursue these pathetic scumbags through criminal proceedings. The elements of hooliganism are obvious. There are video recordings. Naturally, there are plenty of witnesses. There are some interesting photos that aren’t on LiveJournal. For example, you can clearly see who hits the security guard on the back of the head with a beer mug from behind, and so on. As in the case with Tesak, we’ll hand these agency-linked provocateurs (in the broadest sense of the word) over to the agency itself—let them sort it out, and we’ll watch how they squirm. "Has a case been opened?" — I don’t know. As I understand it, there’s a preliminary inquiry underway. No one has called me yet. The lawyer will sort it out soon. The most serious damage was to my right ear: I spent all of yesterday answering phone calls nonstop. It was exhausting. In my very first post I wanted to praise Mishchenko tagan: he also didn’t get scared and offered to speak on behalf of United Russia — I didn’t have time to say that from the stage. Bagirov was just first. But I’m not going to praise him, because he’s making some bogus statements claiming that I was swearing from the stage, provoking everyone, and that we got everyone drunk. Maxim, you’ve already secured your place on the party list, so there’s no point in licking boots this hard any further—you’ll just lose people’s respect. The best explanation of what happened comes from real_rykov, who himself backed out of DaDebaty last time, as he explains. "That’s exactly why United Russia doesn’t take part in this circus," he writes in a comment on the photos. And that’s exactly why they send us idiots who’ll start a fight for 500 rubles a head, so they can later write, "that’s why..." I know perfectly well that our debates give heartburn to all sorts of domestic policy departments, because we invite whoever we want and because of that we’re "scaling up the wrong people" and "creating the wrong trends." They can’t do anything like this themselves, so they work to marginalize our project. A very telling example is this article in Komsomolskaya Pravda: During the event, a group of young men, worked up by free beer, began shouting insults at host Alexei Navalny. Unable to tolerate the insults, Navalny went outside with the offenders and, during the fight, fired several shots from a traumatic pistol (a non-lethal handgun common in Russia). It is hardly surprising that Navalny "just happened" to have a pistol in his pocket—apparently he knows both his associates and his opponents quite well. The injured man was taken to the hospital by ambulance, and the host of "DaDebaty" is currently giving explanations at the police station. http://www.kp.ru/online/news/35772/ Really, who would go watch any kind of debate after publications like that? We only have one kind of debate here: Thursday evening on NTV. You have to admit, these gentlemen work effectively. Now we’re going to run into both organizational problems (finding a club) and a format problem (everyone expects the usual provocation, and the substantive part becomes less and less interesting); on that point, plushev is right. But we’ll come up with something. Of what’s been written in the media that I’ve managed to read, Elektorat-Info does the best job. Which is entirely predictable. *Moreover, suspicions have arisen that it was Navalny who fired the provocative shot during the scandalous protest against infill development on Kosygin Street at the end of July this year. *http://electorat.info/blog/stati/24734-0-pistolet-navalnogo-sosvatal-belih-golodnoi-utke.html This is definitely one of my favorite websites. Now I’m waiting to see what Yoki.ru reports. Though there were competitors. One outlet wrote: "Trying to call everyone to order, Navalny began shooting from the stage into the audience." In my opinion, a masterpiece. An acquaintance of mine sent me this on ICQ: *a slogan was born: If every Russian nationalist shoots one FSB officer, we will come to power! *I do not support this slogan.... besides, there aren’t that many FSB officers to be found.
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