They are rights which should be inviolable against the state which the state, in the form of a temporary parliamentary majority, should not be able to encroach upon. On the same assumption, freedom of information is important because the information of government belongs not to the state but to the citizen. It is the right of every citizen to own the information on which governments conduct policy on matters such as devolution and stronger local government, because the more frequently decisions are made closer to the citizen, the better. It is interesting to reflect that the majority of voters in Britain get neither the Member of Parliament nor the Government that they personally want, so there is some dislocation there in terms of people feeling that they own their system. Some of the newspapers today are saying that it is a broken force.
People have their own views on that.
I believe that it is a very happy thing for the Russian people.