The news for today is that Milinkevich announced he would take bull by its horns and initiate a new political movement, For Freedom, which was supposed to be created much earlier with backing of the Council of United Democratic Forces. Well, some might argue here that it had already been launched, but the political parties, as Milinkevich deems, had dawdled wasting time on internal campaigning and petty inner-circle power struggle.

At least publicly none of the party leaders voiced any criticism of the former oppositional candidate’s plan, and to the contrary they saluted his effort to unite nonpartisan activists. But it’s quite easy to guess what they really thought of this.

Will it work? We’ll see, but what saddens me is that again some political struggle triggers creation of a new structure. Our politics so often reminds some wicked clownery or childishness, i.e. struggle of personalities and not of ideologies. How many rightwing and leftwing groups do we have? Two or three for each and every one of us?

Only in this case, I really think Milinkevich could be right in his actions, as it might give some boost to the dormant political climate. For Freedom can become an alternative to the feeble (almost pathetic) parties lacking new members and ideas.