Professor Khodnev: «What will be tomorrow – is unclear…» By Grigory Pasko, journalist I first met Professor Alexander Sergeyevich Khodnev in Washington several years ago. And several days ago, I met with him on the day of the elections of the president of Russia in Yaroslavl, where he teaches history. I hereby offer for your consideration my conversation with Alexander Khodnev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chair of the Department of Universal History at the Yaroslavl Pedagogical University Named After K. Ushinsky. Alexander Sergeyevich, today you and I observed the elections – you at your own local precinct, I at your university. The people came actively. After voting, I asked people for whom they had voted. The majority replied that they’d voted for Medvedev. Of course, the actual result of the voting was predictable. So why, then, in your view, is the power hedging itself in every which way? It suppresses the opposition, it removed Kasyanov from the elections, it threatened civil service employees if they didn’t show up for the elections… What is the power afraid of and is it really afraid?