Today Robert Amsterdam gave an interview on Echo Moskvy about the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov. Below is a small excerpt adapted from his on-air comments.
“Russia’s vertical of power does not bring law and order. Rather, it has brought chaos and nihilism. These murders show that the Power is incapable of defending the people and their constitutional rights. We must ask ourselves whether the authorities, too many of whom are predators against Russia’s citizens and businesses, even truly care. I will not call upon the Russian authorities to investigate these murders because we know they have no true interest in doing so, and will not do so properly. They have lost my trust. We can only mourn and commit even more strongly to defending the principles that Markelov and Baburova died for.
I extend to their families and friends my deepest sympathies and my hopes that they may be among the last heroes of Russia to die in such circumstances.“
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As I said earlier in a comment to another post, before this one appeared, I enjoyed the interview. Robert you did a great job.On a separate note, I heartily recommend Echo Moskvi for Russian language learners. It is treasure house of interviews on all possible subjects, all available for download, usually with transcript. I think this is the best language learning resource available on the web, for any language. They should get a cultural award from the Russian government!I import the texts to my LingQ.com account to learn the words I do not know. 5 months ago there were close to 30% unknown words and now it is under 15%. Russian is a beautiful language, and Russians sure like to argue and give their opinions with bombast and gusto.