Excellent. It’s very good that we haven’t even finished collecting the signatures yet, and they’re already coming up with all sorts of ridiculous and silly tricks.
In this case, more silly than ridiculous—which tells us a lot about the level of the presidential administration’s leadership, repeating nonsense written by various young pro-Kremlin activists to mislead people online.
I wrote in detail about the “it has already been ratified” argument in a post analyzing the lies about Article 20.
If lawyer Navalny does not seem convincing enough to Ivanov, then here is lawyer Zorkin (Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation):
In addition, I would like to remind Ivanov that the Russian Ministry of Justice (the main government body responsible for legal affairs) prepared proposals for ratifying Article 20. It would be strange to prepare such a ratification if it had already taken place.
I would like to emphasize that as part of the #Twenty campaign, we are demanding not only the ratification of the currently non-effective Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption, but also its practical implementation—adding an “illicit enrichment” article to the Criminal Code.
In fact, our initiative is called exactly that:
Let’s quickly get those 3,000 votes so we can focus on substantive issues—otherwise people like Ivanov will go on deceiving everyone.
