It turns out that yesterday’s post about Transneft was an anniversary one — the 2,000th in this cozy little journal. That happened by accident, honestly. Thank you all so much. I didn’t even expect this much support, and it’s incredibly gratifying. Most importantly, it’s not just gratifying — it’s useful. As early as yesterday, several important things were achieved: Transneft confirmed the authenticity of the documents. The Accounts Chamber (Russia’s state audit office) confirmed the authenticity of the documents. The total audience reach yesterday alone (counting all the media outlets that wrote about it or broadcast it) was at least one million people, by the most conservative estimate. The goal of this information campaign — to tell 10 million people about this fraud within a month — looks entirely realistic. Putin’s press secretary was especially pleasing: "I see no need whatsoever to comment on bloggers’ materials. The Accounts Chamber is mentioned there. If there were really something to it, surely we would have learned about it directly from them," Dmitry Peskov, press secretary to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti. *Well, that’s exactly where you did learn it from. You quietly settled the financial issues and thought that closed the matter. That’s not going to work. I’ve been sent a whole lot of new information about the merry little embezzlement schemes of the Transneft crowd. I’ve only read comments up to page 3 so far. And there are already 110 pages. So that’ll be my weekend job. I’ll sort through everything and reply to everyone. The same goes for email. Several hundred messages have come in. I’ll try to respond as quickly as possible. And yes, of course I apologize to the journalists who couldn’t get through to me by phone. The text messages I received in large numbers, along the lines of, "Navalny, you bastard, you kept whining that the media wouldn’t give you airtime, and now you, damn it, don’t even pick up the phone," are fair. I’m trying to do better.