in the democratic movement. Those who, if they call themselves liberals at all, remain liberals to the end. Yevgenia Albats: **Yes, the march’s slogans — “Russia is Russian land!”, “Russian order on Russian land!”, and especially “Kondopoga is a hero city!” (Kondopoga is a town in Karelia associated with ethnic unrest in 2006) — carry a very definite subtext and are unlikely to appeal to citizens of non-Russian ethnic backgrounds. But isn’t it the very people in power — and, even more so, the propaganda apparatus that serves them — who persistently replace the word “Rossiyanin” (a civic term meaning “citizen of Russia”) with “Russky” (an ethnic Russian)? **... **That is why the humble petition addressed to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, signed by 28 representatives of human rights organizations and democratic political parties, asking him to “prevent the demonstration or rally of the ‘Russian March-2006’ in the event that unconstitutional and extremist placards and slogans are used,” is a strong contender for Stupidity of the Year, No. 2 — though, then again, it may even compete for first place. **source And Kolya Khramov (though I personally have very mixed feelings about him): **A mayor or governor who yesterday, in defiance of every conceivable legal norm, was banning, say, a gay pride parade, and today in exactly the same way — spitting on the law and the Constitution — swears to “prevent nationalists from marching in the streets,” is far more dangerous than not just three but thirty-three thousand demonstrators, even with slogans far more idiotic and harmful than those prepared for the November 4 march. **source As I understand it, only two people were not afraid to make public statements on this subject. The rest are either keeping silent or “fighting Russian fascism” by calling for freedom of assembly to be banned.