[Editor: This week our correspondent in Russia, Grigory Pasko, published two interviews with a leading psychiatric expert in Russia about the state’s forced confinement of several political dissidents. The following is an afterword Grigory wrote to go with the articles.] A compulsory afterword When Yuri Sergeyevich asked me to send him the text of the interview with him so he could look it over, I wasn’t surprised: I had heard of an incident when one journalist had supposedly written something he’d said inaccurately. And more: medical terms – this isn’t my favourite topic, so I freely admit that my dictaphone and I might not have heard some word correctly (although I love my dictaphone very much and trust it implicitly). Doctor Savenko spent a long time proofreading our conversation. He sent me his version. Imagine my surprise when I did not uncover in it the words of my interlocutor not only about today’s power, but specifically about comrade Putin. Furthermore, a bit later, the esteemed doctor sent me an addendum: “…I am sending my proofread. See to it that the places removed by me do not remain in the text.”