In response to today’s daching, the Nashi activists (members of a pro-Kremlin youth movement) put on some kind of display right outside our building in Maryino.
I mean, I don’t mind—let them do it, we do have freedom of assembly. But why block the main path through our courtyard? They even stationed cops at the picket. Presumably so the moms with strollers wouldn’t scratch their faces over that kind of piggish behavior.
Speaking of piggish behavior: it wasn’t entirely clear what that bonfire they lit right next to the benches was supposed to mean, or what the rest of that dump was about, but guess who cleaned up all the trash after those young United Russia loyalists?
That’s right: Tajik workers with carts, paid by the district housing maintenance service.
The stunt of tying St. George ribbons onto the fence around the lawn was apparently invested with some special meaning of its own. Now the Tajik workers are going around and, oh so unpatriotically, taking them back off.
I’m sure the daching will be conducted on a much higher cultural level.
But all in all, even if the stunt was slapdash, I’d like to thank the Nashi activists: a person under house arrest doesn’t have many amusements, and this at least provided some variety.
P.S. The best comment on Instagram: Yulia, you do know how to make water balloons, right?
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