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I do not want violence. Not in any form. I do not want teachers’ hands down schoolgirls’ underwear. I do not want drunken fathers’ fists beating the bodies of their wives and children. Were I to list all the violence that I am aware of, there would not be enough days, weeks, or years. To start seeing violence one simply has to open their eyes. ....
We knew that the transcripts of our hearings would be broadcast. Even though no one listens to you in the courtroom, you can address invisible listeners who will read about it later in the media. And so to demonstrate the full absurdity of the Russian courts we set up what we called a “word auction”: we invited our readers to contribute words, any words, along with a monetary donation. We then went ahead and wove them into our speeches we put the speeches together using the words people sent in. So the speeches ended up pretty absurdist, but we managed to express some of our ideas at the same time. I remember that there were a lot of really wacky and exotic animals, so we would say, like, “we’ve been sitting under house arrest for a long time now, we aren’t able to admire these wonderful animals.” Someone sent in the phrase “bee extinction,” so my colleague Volodya [Vladimir Metyolkin] gave a whole speech about the problem of bees going extinct due to climate change, an ....
The police showed up to the event. At first they were just interested in what it was we were up to. We told them that this was something like a support group which was accurate, as it happens. They left and then returned with officers from the Criminal Investigation Department. There were three CID and two or three police officers. They started checking everyone’s passports. I was told that my passport was in improper shape it was ripped, allegedly and I needed to go see the police station so they could confirm my identity. I asked if this meant that I was under arrest, and whether I could not go to the station. They responded that I couldn’t not do that. ....
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