The event in Ostankino somehow turned out not very well. Maybe because of the heat. Three things stuck in my mind: A half-dead old man. He was standing next to me and kept chanting, "To arms!" A frail old woman. When she saw the YABLOKO flags (a Russian liberal political party), she said to her companion—a squinting middle-aged man: "Look, Yavlinsky has recruited himself some volunteers. They're all curly-haired and big-nosed." It was very funny. yashin snatched an anti-portrait placard from the communists and demanded that journalist friends of his hold it.