Yahweh / Сongratulations to Kasparov and others.

Kasparov was not the first jailed to short time slice by famous Article 19.3 of the Russian Offences Code ("Disobeying the lawful order of pollice officer"). This article is just a magic helper for authorities and has nothing to do with reality because too often Russian courts don't even bother to check whether order itsel was lawful or not. This is simple enough and seems to be the most used method of jailing Russian political activists.

The full list of 19.3's jailed activists is a big enough to not be fully known to me. Even I in my contemporary history had a record of 19.3's 10 days of arrest (05.05.2007-15.05.2007) during Moscow part of the GMM.

15 days of arrest - the maximum allowed by Russian Offences Code. In the past in Moscow there were two places (known to me) where you can be send during this time.

1. Special Russian Offences Code jail (Gilyarovsky str, 65, bld. 3). The place where I spend largest part of my 10 days
2. Remand center at Petrovka 38 - I was there about 12 hours.

Petrovka 38 is less frequent but more comfortable jail. But even in (1) case this is not so problematic place to spend up to 15 days of your life. Boring but safe place.

In the right corner of the room (1) where we were held there was abandoned spider's net. It was not clear whether spider still exists or not but it was clear that no one from us will see him - just as Yahweh. Kasparov was sended to (2) and so spider's destiny still will be unclear to us.

I believe Kasparov will be no more tired from his arrest's days then I was. In fact Russian Offences Code arrest is the most exciting gift any opposition activist can receive from Kremlins. Starting from this time Kasparov is far more reputable to any radical person then it was before. And 5 days in his situation is not so big price as one can think.