Hi.
My name is Anja (Anastasia, actually, but i prefer to call myself this way).
I am so sorry for my english, it is foreign to me.
I know, that many users don’t like when non-english-speaker tries to write on english, but it is necessery now.
Well, I’m from Russia.
*Many people will skip this text without any attention because of attitude to my country, and I understand that, but if you are still reading - thank you. It is extremely important for me*
I have been living there for all my life (for about 20 years).
When I was a child, I really loved my country.
I knew, that it is so beautiful, that there is no words in my vocabulary to describe its beauty. Large wild forests, home for wonderful birds and animals, sparkly rivers, so cold and vivid, boundless sky, so bright at mornings and evenings, so brilliant at noon and so deeply-dark at night.
Big cities and small villages side by side, modern skyscrapers near by old wooden houses from before last century.
A pleiad of great scientists, writers, poets, composers, artists…
I used to love my country. But something had gone the very bad way.
I suppose, it is all started when I was in high school.
It was 2014, when all of these occasions in the Ukraine started.
I and all of my classmates were shocked, stunned. We didn’t understand, what is happening, why it is happening. We thought that it isn’t real, that it is just a bad long joke. We were confused when started all that things with Crimea, we wanted that to stop.
Our teacher said, that this is the way the history happens: one day it will be in the school books, but for us, for people, the whole world turned into something weird, complicate and dangerous.
From that moment, Russia started to do some mad things in the international area.
But also, a few years ago, it started to do some horrible things against it own citizens.
From 2011 to 2013, several mass protests took place in the country. They were due to results of legislative election in 2011 and president election in 2012. Our “new” president was again Vladimir Putin. Our President for 17 years.
After arests of protestants, in our country passed a law, that limited participation in rallies. This law was need to make the protestants fall silent.
Now, in 2017, this hysteria has reached the unthinkable scale. In the eve of the 2018 president election, the authorities “do their best” to strangle the opposition candidate Alexey Navalny and all the opposition generally.
They do not let us speak. They don’t want us to exist, to act, to fight lawfully. And they break our laws, our Constitution; they forget about our human and civil rights, about freedom of speech. They want us to be their silent slaves.
And today, at October 7th, I write this post in honor of USSR Constitution Day and to support the legal rallies all across the country.
