Oleg Kozlovsky’s name should be familiar to regular readers of this blog. I recently visited his website and read his wonderful stories about his arrest and trial. Oh well, yet another one of Those Who Disagree with Putin and his “team” has undergone the baptism of jail. I am amazed by the stupidity of the Russian power: after all, it is known that Russian jail only toughens a person, especially a person with firm convictions. And all the more so if this person is a political prisoner. I, for example, do not know of one person from the National-Bolshevik party, which has been prohibited in Russia, who, after having done time in a camp (and there are already very many like this), has abandoned his or her convictions.

Below we offer an excerpt from an article by Oleg Kozlovsky, and soon we will post up an interview I did with him. – Grigory Pasko