A few days ago, Jonathan Earle in the Moscow Times wrote about the difficulties currently faced by opposition journalists. Earle discussed how the new momentum of the protest movement has ushered certain reporters into organizational duties which could be seen by some as incompatible with the execution of their tasks as reporters, as the divide between the personal and the professional erodes.  One of the journalists he interviewed was Oleg Kashin, the Kommersant reporter who discovered the grizzly personal consequences of political journalism when he was the victim of a savage beating.  Kashin today has written an op-ed for Bloomberg in which he gives his take on the opposition movement, and specifically its limitations: