Greetings from Chicago, where the USRBC is meeting, and I’m sitting in on it a bit myself. There are lots of our officials here; the most noticeable is the largest delegation, from Chelyabinsk Region, headed by my personal favorite—Governor Yurevich. By the way, I wasn’t too lazy to find out that the USRBC didn’t pay for them, and the trip by these tough Chelyabinsk officials was most likely funded from the Chelyabinsk Region budget (I’m very curious what class they flew). Well, I hope the expense was worth it and that we’ll see some active work from the Chelyabinsk delegation. All right, in fact I wasn’t planning to nitpick—I just wanted to post a video of the debate on the topic of "the opposition’s strategy for the upcoming parliamentary elections," featuring Garry Kasparov, Boris Nemtsov, and me. As you might guess, I defended the strategy: "Come to the polls and vote for any party, as long as it’s against the Party of Crooks and Thieves." Here is that debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U34OwYrad0 (recorded by oleg_kozyrev) P.S. Videos entered in the contest for the best music video against the Party of Crooks and Thieves have already started coming in. I’ll try to post them soon.