The party’s crisis did not come about by accident. The party leadership bears responsibility for it. Real leaders must carry both the burden of responsibility and the weight of defeat. Boris Nemtsov resigned after the 2003 election defeat; Nikita Belykh resigned a few days ago. Now Leonid Gozman must resign as well. He served as one of the party’s co-chairs. He bears direct responsibility for ALL the decisions the party has pursued in recent years. Leonid Yakovlevich cannot deny this. He must resign. That is the first point. Here, m_gaidar is writing a letter to the Turkish sultan—that is, to the SPS political council (SPS: Union of Right Forces, a Russian political party). She is demanding Gozman’s resignation. Good for Masha. The rest of the party leadership is behaving strangely. They are collapsing with a masochistic little giggle. Nadezhdin, without waiting for any decisions, is already saying that SPS will legally cease to exist, while Marietta Chudakova (where on earth did they even dig her up?) is writing some disgusting little articles in Vedomosti. I urge everyone to circulate and promote Masha’s appeal so that the sinister Gozmonitto (who likes poking around LiveJournal) sees the nationwide outrage, resigns, goes off to a monastery, and devotes himself to mortifying the flesh.