Today, court hearings began in the Bolotnaya case (the prosecution of participants in the May 6, 2012 protest on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square).
The innocent are on trial. Honest, decent people who would not—and could not—accept injustice, and who peacefully took to the streets to say what every citizen ought to say. Andrei Barabanov Ilya Gushchin Aleksandra Dukhanina Denis Lutskevich Stepan Zimin Mariya Baronova Aleksandr Kamensky Nikolai Kavkazsky Fyodor Bakhov Mikhail Kosenko Rikhard Sobolev Yaroslav Belousov Leonid Kovyazin Sergei Udaltsov Oleg Arkhipenkov Dmitry Rukavishnikov Aleksandr Margolin Alexei Polikhovich Elena Kokhtareva Leonid Razvozzhayev Sergei Krivov Alexei Gaskarov Maksim Luzyanin, who has already been convicted and sent to a penal colony for 4.5 years Friends, we are with you. We remember you, and we are proud of you. Remember: the heavy chains will fall, and freedom will surely greet you joyfully at the gates, just as the great Russian poet once foretold. It cannot be otherwise.