At the same time as the two presidential couples – the French and the Russian – were attending an exhibition in the Louvre with the pompous name «Rus’ the holy», another exhibition was opening in a private gallery not too far from the Louvre – one of drawings dedicated to the shameful trial in the so-cal led «YUKOS case».

Appearing at the exhibition opening were the artists (in their number Sergei Kuznetsov and Katya Belyavskaya), lawyers ( in their number Elena Liptser), journalists (in their number Elsa Vidal from Reporters without Borders), philosophers (among them André Glucksmann)…

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Image: Drawing by Ekaterina Belyavskaya from the «YUKOS case» exhibition.

Quiet. Modest.  They looked at the wonderful drawings. They mentioned the upcoming court session in Strasbourg on the claim by YUKOS shareholders. They discussed cultural news and what is being written in general in the mass information media of the two countries…

About the arrival of Medvedev they practically didn’t recall.