My daughter came back from a walk: Dad, they drew you here on our building behind bars. I took a picture.

And sure enough, these wonderful graffiti pieces now adorn my building in several places. It really brings Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves to mind. The villains marked the gate with a cross, and I’m supposed to draw the same cross on every house in the block so the villains get confused and won’t know where we live. By the way, speaking of visual propaganda. The court in Vologda Region refused the prosecutor’s office’s request to declare our hugely popular housing-and-utilities leaflet extremist. The prosecutor’s office and the local police tried to do it at the demand of the loathsome United Russia man (member of the ruling party), former governor Pozgalyov.  So feel free to distribute it: http://er.mashina.org/

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