I wrote that at a meeting of the YABLOKO party bureau, Yavlinsky said that participation in the National Assembly and membership in the YABLOKO party are incompatible. Boris Vishnevsky says that this is a lie. Yashin wrote that Yavlinsky had identified the emergence of two platforms within YABLOKO. Mitrokhin said that Yashin’s remarks about the existence of moderate and radical platforms were entirely his own invention. And Ivan Bolshakov, Alexander Gnezdilov, and Igor Yakovlev also did not sit idle, and refuted the information spread by party bureau member Ilya Yashin that the statement condemning the National Assembly had been introduced at Sergei Mitrokhin’s initiative. After this, I will insist that there was no bureau at all. Everything that is happening, and all of us, are merely a figment of Grigory Yavlinsky’s imagination—and he is not really Grigory Yavlinsky at all, but a giant olive floating in a martini glass carelessly held by Valery Panyushkin, who is gazing out the window waiting for something genuinely interesting, while he himself, and indeed all eternity, is merely a moment of contemplation in the mind of Anatoly Wasserman.