In fact, everything is clear. They really can win elections. And it would be obvious to anyone who would travel with us through the regions. As a matter of fact, this is obvious to the Kremlin as well. They also have eyes and the ability to draw elementary conclusions.
Arkhangelsk
The notorious 86% rating exists in a political vacuum. It's like asking a person who has been fed turnips all his life - how much do you rate the edibility of turnips? The rating will be quite high. Most likely, even many famous athletes and singers will come out in support of the swede and will be ready to become its confidants. Well, what? Rutabaga - she is our breadwinner, gives us stability.
This is quite an appropriate analogy: I am 41, and I watched the last election not of Putin when I was 20. But most of those reading this post are probably younger than me.
And we come into this political vacuum with the obvious, lying on the surface: listen, and not only because the swede exists. There are better things. Yes, and purchases of rutabagas are suspiciously expensive. And its yield in centners per hectare is low. And people look at each other, as if having seen the light, and say to each other: well, really, but what about swede? Let's at least have a culinary duel and compare turnip with other products.
That's why I'm sitting under arrest again. And I spend every fifth day of my election campaign in a cell. And my chief of staff is under arrest for the third time. And yesterday there was a raid on our headquarters in St. Petersburg, and such raids happen all the time in all regions.
It's all Kremlin rutabaga. Being perfectly aware of how destructive our campaign is for her, she purges those who, for the first time in 20 years, not only proclaim an alternative, but also actively working throughout the country and with any voter.
From this follows the obvious
- what happens if you do nothing
- what to do
If we don't do anything, we'll be fed those damn rutabagas for the rest of our lives. And our children too. This is not an exaggeration, by the way. The rutabaga mafia also has children, they grow up and, as you can see, they occupy more and more government posts. It won't stop on its own.
What to do? Support our campaign now. Support me if I am your candidate. Support the very idea of political competition, if you disagree with me on something.
Khabarovsk
I perfectly understand that I cannot 100% correspond to the political preferences of all voters, but what I propose is certainly better than the frozen warehouse of last year's rutabaga, which Russia has now turned into.
(the police officer who is watching me and listening to me dictate this post is already obviously freaked out by how many times I said the word "rutabaga")
Let's get down to specifics.
First. Tell everyone around you that the endless illegal arrests of Putin's main rival in the elections and attacks on his headquarters is not how the election campaign should be. Form such a public opinion around you. Agitate your circle.
Second. October 7 is the day when we will try to say it together, openly and directly. Let rutabaga Professor Putin hear this and go to a well-deserved retirement. He was in power for 18 years, that's enough.
a) I demand political competition
b) I demand admission to the election of Navalny and any other candidates capable of collecting the required 300,000 signatures.
We say it on the internet. And we say it in the streets.
Third. Our headquarters throughout the country (now there are 80) organize pickets(this is the form of a public event for which we managed to apply after the arrest of my and Volkov). Join.
The main event will be in St. Petersburg. We perfectly understand that it is to prevent it that all this clowning with “courts” is arranged. Petersburg officials decided to drop their masks and speak out so arrogantly and so aggressively because of October 7th.
Moscow. We applied for a rally on Pushkinskaya Square, we have already received an absolutely illegal refusal without providing an alternative venue, which means that again, in full accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court of Russia, we are going to Tverskaya Square at 14.00 as a sanctioned and completely legal event. Any point of Tverskaya street from Pushkinskaya to Manezhnaya. If you want - stand, if you want - go, if you want - lie down, if you want - sing.
Our symbolism is the flag of Russia.
Our task is to make October 7 the day when every decent person in Russia will say out loud or at least to himself these two demands:
political competition and Navalny's admission to the elections
Fourth. The Kremlin is blocking the infrastructure of the campaign as best it can, preventing offline work, which means that more opposing efforts are needed. Send us, sign up, agitate one more person to put.
Thanks a lot to everyone who supports. Beams of support to all who are subjected to unlawful pressure for not wanting to forget their human rights.
Separate greetings and support to my chief of staff Leonid Volkov. A brave man, he went on a hunger strike to protest his illegal arrest. His pregnant wife is about to give birth. I can understand his feelings and his despair.
https://www.site/2018-06-19/navalnyy_prizval_vseh_vyyti_na_mitingi_protiv_povysheniya_pensionnogo_vozrasta
“Tomorrow you won’t live to retire”
Navalny urged everyone to go to rallies against raising the retirement age
Marina Moldavskaya
Opposition politician Alexei Navalny has called on his supporters to protest against the government's pension reform, which raises the retirement age for men to 65 and for women to 63. As the politician said in his Instagram, its headquarters yesterday filed 20 notifications about holding a rally on July 1 in 20 cities of Russia where no World Cup matches are taking place.
“Let's be honest: the increase in the retirement age started by [Vladimir] Putin and [Dmitry] Medvedev is a real crime.<…>This is a nationwide and nationwide protest. We urge everyone to participate in actions against raising the retirement age, regardless of political views and preferences. We don't care who you voted for yesterday. Come to the street now, otherwise tomorrow you will not live to see your retirement,” Navalny wrote.
Among the cities where the politician plans to hold rallies are Belgorod, Biysk, Izhevsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Lipetsk, Murmansk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Pskov, Stavropol, Tver, Khabarovsk, Yaroslavl.
Recall that today in Moscow, near the building of the State Duma, the police detained the head of the local branch of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, who was holding a solo picket against raising the retirement age. Law enforcement officers took Mitrokhin to the police station because he violated the presidential decree prohibiting public actions during the World Cup.
The draft law on raising the retirement age will be adopted by the State Duma in the final version in the fall of 2018. On Change.org, a petition against the reform was signed by 1 million people.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has sharply criticized the alleged fraud in the gubernatorial elections in Primorye, calling them "a direct insult not only to the inhabitants of this region, but to the whole country" and "demonstrative mockery of people." In an appeal posted on the website navalny.com on Monday, September 17, Navalny called on all residents of Vladivostok from that day to come daily to the square near the administration building, and on Saturday, September 22, "gather the whole city there and not disperse until until the results of the elections become the way people voted, and not the way United Russia painted.
Alexey Navalny urged residents of other cities of Primorye either to go to Vladivostok and participate in protests there, or to organize such actions in their cities. He also called on the Russians to forget about ideological differences, and the State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to come and stay on the square with the people, protecting them. According to the oppositionist, people should not be afraid of detentions, because "the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are outraged by the falsifications just like everyone else."
Context
In his appeal, Alexei Navalny pointed out that the inhabitants of the Vladimir region, Khakassia and the Khabarovsk Territory should do everything to fail United Russia in the elections in their regions even more than in Primorye. "I call on all the inhabitants of the country to provide moral and informational support to the residents of Primorye, and if necessary, take to the streets for them. It was not their elections that were stolen, it was stolen from the whole country," Navalny summed up, who continues to serve 30 days of administrative arrest for accusation of repeated violation of the procedure for organizing a public event in connection with the protest action on January 28 in Moscow.
In Primorye, following the results of the second round of gubernatorial elections, the current head of the region, Andrey Tarasenko ("United Russia"), unexpectedly broke into the lead. Prior to this, Andrei Ishchenko, a candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was leading by a significant margin for a long time. Independent observers suspected the authorities of falsifying the voting results.
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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed to the Russians with an appeal to go out in their cities to the “Voter Strike”. The politician said that if you do not take part in this action, then you can not expect a normal life and not dream of positive changes.
“They only happen when society really wants them,” he stressed.
“You and I know very well that on March 18 Putin will carry out his reappointment and announce that power belongs to him for another six years. We know this, but we cannot and must not resign ourselves. Six more years of poverty, corruption, backwardness, degradation. Just the thought of it is just awful. So let's act. Do not recognize these elections, actively boycott them, participate in a voter strike, and most importantly, take to the streets,” Navalny says in a video posted on his YouTube channel. The politician recalled that at all times and in all countries, street actions were the main and most powerful mechanism for putting pressure on the authorities. “Either you and I will learn to take to the streets and express our demands, or they will rob us endlessly,” the opposition leader said.
“On January 28, we are holding a nationwide protest action, because tens of millions of people were simply robbed of their elections and forced out of the political system. They were clearly told: “You are nobody here, and nobody cares about your opinion.” Each of us now has a simple choice - to stay at home and agree with this, or go out into the streets of our city and remind us of our existence, ”Navalny added.
It should be noted that Tverskaya Street is called the venue for the protest action in Moscow in the video (the event is scheduled by Navalny for 14:00). Earlier, the city authorities refused to supporters of the opposition to hold a rally in the center of the capital, offering them a site in the Sokolniki park as an alternative. Navalny said that he was not going to "hold a rally in the forest."
In his blog, Navalny calls going to a rally "in 99% of cases, the safest, most effective and easiest way to fight politically." “Participate. Nothing will work without you. Don't wait for anything and participate right this Sunday. No matter how they intimidate us, no mass repressions against participants in the events are possible,” the oppositionist wrote.
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The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs separately recalled that "Moscow has always been and remains the center of attraction and attention." “On this platform, the interested parties are shaking the situation, trying to attract attention to themselves by violating the law,” he added.
According to Gorovoy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs "with two hands for the right of citizens granted by the constitution and federal laws to hold processions, rallies and demonstrations," but "absolutely must approach and stop violations of these laws." As an example of such violations, he cited the events that took place in Russia on June 12, 2017. Then, almost a thousand people were detained on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. In a number of cases, detentions were carried out very harshly: OMON beat protesters with batons and hands, pulled them out of the crowd and dragged them along the ground.
Sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on the people of Russia to take to the streets and seek the removal of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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“This regime has no right to exist. It must be destroyed. I urge everyone to take to the streets today and be there until this regime, which tortures innocent people, is removed,” Navalny said.
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The court also ordered the Navalny brothers to pay a fine of 500,000 rubles ($8,500) each and more than 4 million rubles ($70,000) in compensation to one of the companies that accused them of fraud.
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Z vila about the intention to appeal the verdict of the court.
Prosecutors, which have demanded 10 years for Navalny and eight for his brother, say they will decide to appeal the decision after they see the full text of the sentence. The judge today read out only the operative part of the verdict, without the reasoning part.
Russian opposition activists consider the cases against Navalny politically motivated and demand the release of the brothers. At 19:00 Moscow time (this is 18:00 Kyiv time), activists hope to gather for a protest in the center of Moscow - on Manezhnaya Square. About 17,000 people announced their intention to come to the action on Facebook.
About 100 people came to the courthouse, where the verdict was announced.