I don’t know what kind of opposition never ventures beyond the Boulevard Ring (central Moscow), but today we held a meeting in the town of Sharya, in Kostroma Region. It’s 660 km (410 miles) from Moscow and 335 km (208 miles) from Kostroma. It’s the second-largest city in the region.
We didn’t even have to go very hard after United Russia — after the meeting, people were saying: we can’t stand it even without your campaigning.
That’s true. Sharya has one of the lowest levels of voting for United Russia in the country — 26%. That’s twice lower than in Moscow according to the official figures, and one and a half times lower by the real count.
A little over 100 people came to the meeting. We had a very good conversation. The question I liked most was about the mandatory capital repair fee: my building is 90 years old and has never had major repairs, and now I’m supposed to pay this fee, and they say they’ll fix everything in 15 years — can anyone believe promises like that?
Sharya is a major railway hub, and many people there are connected to Russian Railways, so people know all about Yakunin and his tricks. Before the meeting, one woman was enthusiastically telling me that you can find aerial photos of Yakunin’s dacha online, and that it looks absolutely outrageous.
And these are my fangirls. They follow me everywhere — they’ve been to Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Kostroma, and now they’ve come to Sharya too. In Kaluga, they even filed a police complaint against me demanding that a criminal case be opened. Their set of “tricky questions” is always the same: what’s your attitude toward sexual minorities, and why are you working for America?
They shout for about ten minutes, then step aside.
All in all, it was a great meeting. Thanks to everyone who came.
Special thanks to our heroic team in Sharya for organizing the meeting.
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