A Good Treaty has summarized an interesting exchange on Echo Moskvy featuring the polittechnologists Gleb Pavlovsky and Marat Gelman, discussing Vladimir Putin’s most recent macho, potty-talk interview with Andrey Kolesnikov of Kommersant (in English here).

Political analysts Gleb Pavlovsky and Marat Gel’man were on Ekho Mosvky earlier today to share their observations about Putin’s speech. Gel’man, assumedly responding to the statement quoted above, said that the most interesting idea to come out of the exchange was the notion that Strategy 31, the liberal protest movement obsessed over by journalists and bloggers alike (guilty as charged), has moved outside the bounds of legal behavior. “The philosophy of [Strategy] 31 was originally for legality. And today they declare that they’re breaking the law for the law,” Gel’man mused, adding, “I’d already forgotten that [Strategy] 31 was for the law.”