President Dmitry Medvedev recently met with human rights advocates. Hooray for Medvedev! Medvedev gave an interview to Novaya Gazeta. What a guy! They’ve released former YUKOS lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina. Respect – to him, naturally, the president. He fired the Moscow millionaire-general in connection with the fact that another millionaire, his belly full of vodka, went and shot to death two and wounded seven people who were guilty of absolutely nothing. Damn, that Medvedev is a veritable daredevil, he is!

And a chorus of voices: a thaw, the ice is breaking, an outrage or a thaw, steering a course towards democracy…

Yes, there’s the crisis; yes, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s still behind bars; yes there’s still a huge bunch of people stuffed all over the camps; yes, there are political prisoners… But everything’s by the law, after all, everything’s under control of the wise tandem of Putin-Medvedev! And the openness of the power just boggles the mind: the president has even become a blogger.