Let’s mark Anti-Corruption Day with a small action against corruption. A real and useful one, which will set us apart from “them,” especially against the backdrop of today’s babbling from Medvedev.
Let’s join forces and force at least 1,019 deputies across the country to publish the declarations they’ve ignored.
Let me explain step by step:
Today we’re launching a new website for the campaign against illicit enrichment — 20.navalny.com.
Now it will be even easier for you to take part in the campaign and convince people you know that adopting Article 20 is a crucial and absolutely necessary part of fighting corruption in Russia.
The website now has a section explaining why we are running this campaign, along with new answers to questions for those who are not yet fully convinced why they should urgently support Article 20. There is also a page with quotes from State Duma deputies about Article 20.
We’ve integrated the familiar map of dachas into the new site, and it now includes new properties. We build it together with you, checking submitted information against real estate registries. (Whoever adds the Prosecutor General’s house and his son’s villa in Switzerland first gets bragging rights.) The new site also has a volunteer section with the usual activities — you can download leaflets, write a letter to your deputy, or order our stickers. People often underestimate the importance of personal social media posts — “everyone in my feed already knows.” They don’t. Be sure to write about why you support Article 20 and why it is so important to adopt it, so that we can get to the beautiful Russia of the future sooner.
Our goal now is for 10% of Russian citizens to know about and support the idea of making illicit enrichment a criminal offense. According to our polling, 87% — even more than Putin’s approval rating — support putting an official in the dock if they cannot explain their spending.
The easiest way to track how deputies earn and spend money is to look at their declarations. There are a lot of deputies across the country — not just in the State Duma, but in regional parliaments too. Volunteers from the #20 campaign checked about 12,000 declarations from nearly 4,000 regional parliament deputies over three years, from 2012 to 2014. They found a lot of interesting things, but the most striking was that they could not find declarations for 1,019 people (for one of those years or for all three). In other words, 25.5% of the deputies we checked violated the requirements of the law — an enormous figure.
We call on those of you living in regions where regional deputies are not complying with the requirements of the law “On Combating Corruption” to make them do so. We have prepared special letters to the Prosecutor General’s Office (yes, we remember that Chaika is there, but under the law this is their responsibility), which can easily be sent from our new website regarding any deputy you choose. Your demands and ours are entirely lawful, and this declarations campaign is simply bound to succeed.
And one more crowdsourcing request to all of you: have you found a declaration that we marked as unpublished? Send us a message about it, and we will remove your deputy from the list of shame.
A huge thank-you to our volunteers. Seventeen people from different cities across Russia worked on the database for an entire month. Take a look at what they say about the Article 20 campaign and their help to us.
Thank you, Adilya, Anastasia, Nadezhda, Dmitry, Ilya, Maria, Zoya, Sergei, Nadezhda, Olga, Alexander, Marina, Lyudmila, Nadezhda, Nikita, Alexander, Olga.
Mark Anti-Corruption Day the right way — make life difficult for the deputy in your regional parliament who failed to publish a declaration, and force them to obey the law.
Go here. Choose your region. Choose a deputy. File a complaint.
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