Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Unfortunately, people expect a Russian opposition politician to be a manic libertarian who thinks the oligarchs are great, who isn't interested in the problems of retirees and who believes the invisible hand of the market will resolve everything.