I didn’t write about the situation with krylov for a long time because it was so idiotic that it seemed like it would sort itself out, and there was nothing to write about here. It turned out that wasn’t the case. A reminder. There was a rally called "Stop Feeding the Caucasus." There were speeches. I spoke too. Everyone spoke very cautiously, tolerantly, and in an all-around polite, proper way. One of the speakers was Konstantin Krylov. Here is his speech.
http://youtu.be/RAWWdi7gcpo A couple of weeks later, on November 4, the day of the Russian March (an annual nationalist demonstration in Russia), Krylov was detained by the police and informed that a criminal case had been opened against him. Supposedly, this speech contained lots of terrible extremist statements. I don’t know — I listened to it ten times and didn’t find a single one. All of this looked like nonsense and mild intimidation ahead of the Russian March, but then this document surfaced. The "at your service" boys from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, apparently acting on orders from behind the Kremlin walls, decided that Krylov had, it turns out, "incited" something.
Well, I’m not even going to write here about "arbitrariness" and the "usual lawlessness." It’s obvious that Krylov was chosen simply as a target for deliberate intimidation: So you know that we won’t hesitate to fabricate a criminal case out of thin air. The main thing is that it is precisely actions like these by the Kremlin crooks that lead to an escalation of street violence. Here are people gathered together, discussing budget inequality and the problems of the Caucasus. Discussing how much budget money should go where. Some are more emotional, some less so. But the discussion is timely and appropriate. And then someone has to come barging into that discussion, wave around some idiotic piece of paper saying he "incited" something, and drag someone off to the police. Obviously, looking at this, people inclined toward, uh... simple solutions will say: what’s there to discuss? who is there to discuss it with? you’ve got to hit back. If people get hauled in for questioning both for discussion and for violence, then they may as well be hauled in for something more substantial — for violence. The persecution of krylov is political. Its consequences will be entirely negative. I agree with the statement in his support. I suggest everyone support him as well.