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People in a neighboring country, Ukraine, stood in pickets even if it was freezing cold, lived on city squares and struggled against intolerable laws, trying to abolish them (and they did succeed in some cases!). But Russia has \u201cits own unique way\u201d. After a bunch of such intolerable laws were adopted in 2012-2013, now even the lawmakers themselves know what to do about them.\u00a0 Russia is probably ready, if not to change these laws, but replace them with others, even more repressive in character. This is sad, but hardly surprising. What does surprise us is the joyous reaction of some of the \u201cprogressive\u201d forces. We are talking of an initiative of the State Duma concerning introduction of changes into the law on information harmful for children: if the proposed changes are adopted, children will be prevented from getting information not only about sexual relations involving people of the same sex, but all information concerning sexual relations whatsoever.