Your parties, the CPRF and YABLOKO, are preparing for the elections to the Moscow City Duma.
Both parties have stated that they want to nominate not a narrow party list, but a coalition one. Both of your parties are able to register candidates for deputy seats without collecting signatures, which is in effect a prohibitive procedure. Other opposition parties (for example, the Party of Progress) do not have this opportunity (which is unfair, but there is no point in discussing that now).
I would not be asking you to do this, were it not for the authorities' obviously unlawful actions, which are preventing some candidates from running by fabricating criminal cases against them.
At present, one of the strongest candidates—Konstantin Yankauskas—will be deprived of even the opportunity to collect signatures, because by placing him under house arrest, the authorities are preventing him from submitting the registration application, which must be filed in person.
Under these circumstances, it would be politically right and fair to Muscovites to include Yankauskas on the CPRF or YABLOKO electoral list, which would give him the opportunity to campaign and win even while under arrest.
In addition, it would be right to consider including on your lists another unlawfully accused candidate—Nikolai Lyaskin, who is (for now) under travel restrictions—and several other strong independent candidates.
None of them is seeking the "best districts"; all of them are doing difficult, painstaking work in areas where victory can be won only at a high cost.
I am confident that such actions by your parties will be seen as the right course both by Muscovites and by activists from other opposition parties, and that this will have a positive effect on the overall course of the campaign, voter turnout, and the chances of other candidates.
Respectfully,
Leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny