*Kirov’s Leninsky District Court is hearing an administrative case against the editor-in-chief of Vyatskaya Osobaya Gazeta. The Kirov Region prosecutor’s office deemed it a violation that the newspaper published a report about Limonov supporters (followers of Eduard Limonov, founder of the banned National Bolshevik Party) putting up “anti-crisis leaflets” urging citizens to withdraw their money from banks and stock up on food: in the supervisory agency’s view, since the National Bolshevik Party was banned, any information about the activities of its activists is untrue. The newspaper’s editor, Nikolai Golikov, says the publication was not covering the activities of the former party, but is convinced that the court proceedings could lead to the paper being shut down. *Here This is nonsense. Monstrous nonsense. They’re putting a newspaper on trial because the word “Nazbol” (National Bolshevik) appeared in the text of its articles. The leaflet’s message is completely idiotic, but the leaflets did exist. The paper wrote about them. Now the paper is in court. A hundred-percent provocation against Belykh. He has no right to interfere in the work of the court and the prosecutor’s office. If he does, there’ll be a scandal. If he doesn’t, that’ll be a scandal too: on the territory of the “most democratic governor,” newspapers are being shut down arbitrarily. In a moment, in full keeping with this administrative absurdity, I’ll write him a letter in my capacity as an adviser. There’s no other way here: the governor can only respond officially if there are twenty-three little bits of paperwork with numbers and approval stamps. Still, there is one upside: once you hand the little note in at the window, it becomes an “official paper with a registration number.” Like it or not, they have to respond.