>Let’s start with the number. Or rather, it’s absence. If the American and European curators of Navalny plan to seize the Russian Far East with the forces that we saw today, then alas. In the 90s, the wine and vodka store near my house was stormed by more people than we saw today in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Chita and Yakutsk combined. And I must say in the 90s, the people acted much more fiercely. >Even Moscow and St. Petersburg, which were the main focus of the protest, failed a little more than completely. We all understand that the Three Train Stations area was chosen only so that the protesters would mix with the crowds of passengers, in order to present it in the report as a raging sea of people. What is a few thousand for a 20-million-strong Moscow? There is nothing to say about St. Petersburg. >The most revealing moment for me personally was the behavior of the organisers. Despair in the eyes, futile attempts to organise arm linking, and a mass run of hatchlings in all directions for any reason, even if the OMON officer drops his baton. Exactly the same misunderstanding of what was happening flashed in the eyes of even the most ideological supporters. They went to feel their involvement in epoch-making events, and ended up laundering $2 million for Navalny from curators from the US. The moral background of the protests has also suffered considerably due to the lack of popular support as such. You can prove to yourself as much as you want that cars honk with joy until you hear the driver’s bad language.