I’m already far too lazy to write about everything I wanted to write while LiveJournal was “down.” A couple of things, in telegraph style: On July 26, we inexplicably lost our case against Rosneft, a case we simply could not have lost. We walked out of the courtroom completely stunned. On July 28, we inexplicably won an entirely similar case against Transneft, a case we simply could not have won in light of the earlier Rosneft ruling. Once again, we walked out of the courtroom stunned. The terms “judicial arbitrariness,” “voluntarism,” “telephone justice” (informal political interference in court decisions), and above all “chaos” fit what happened perfectly. Another interesting development: the antimonopoly service upheld our complaint about the tender run by the crooks from the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (a state-affiliated consultative body), who had decided to hand 55 million rubles to a controlled little outfit for “activizing civil society through ‘world cafés’. An order has been issued requiring the tender documentation to be brought into compliance with the law, and also calling for the Civic Chamber official responsible for the rigging to be held administratively liable. I hope the Civic Chamber complies with the order, and that any firms engaged in organizing conferences, round tables, and so on will be able to take part in this tender—which I encourage them to do. The case was handled by RosPil’s new lawyer, Konstantin Terekhov, whom I haven’t written about yet because he was still on probation, which he has now successfully completed. I’ll write about him separately.