"I am not chervonets to be pleasant"

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On Monday the new head of Council of human rights at President of the Russian Federation officially became Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeev. At the same time some the most active and his noticeable members who were often criticizing a situation in the country were expelled from council. The special correspondent newspaper "Kommersant" Chernykh Alexander talked to Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeev about reaction of human rights activists to his appointment, learned its relation to democracy, Alexei Navalny and to summer elections in Moscow City Duma — but could not understand, than "upholding of the social rights of citizens" differs from "protection of the political rights and freedoms". — When to you suggested to head Council for human rights? .