Just a few photos from our shared folder, “FBK_photos_2015.” No chronology, no particular order.
Campaign #20 was our main project.
The long-awaited print run of our brochure on the illicit enrichment of officials has arrived:
We celebrated my birthday on the office rooftop, but the Kremlin’s little stooges still claimed that 5 million rubles had been spent on it (about $70,000 at the time), and that we had practically invited Pugacheva (Alla Pugacheva, a hugely famous Russian pop singer).
Slava and Vladlen are lawyers, and Asya is a fundraiser, but in Novosibirsk they were all working on collecting signatures.
Tanya in Kostroma:
Anya was preparing the launch of “Chaika” (“The Seagull”), got herself an appropriate spirit animal, and never parted with it:
I don’t know what they’re doing:
Vladlen worked especially hard in Novosibirsk:
The office went outside to watch the solar eclipse:
Sitting and looking at what Putin has done to the country:
This is Biryukova, a sociologist, and in this photo she is exposing VTsIOM (Russia’s state-run public opinion research center):
Another episode of the cult classic (in certain circles) series “Sovushka-Stydobushka” is being filmed:
Rubanov was taken to the police station:
I’m speaking to the volunteers of the “Spring” march:
Kostroma:
A hunger strike in Novosibirsk after being denied registration for the election:
Some of us have international passports, and they’re the lucky ones:
Zhora has a court hearing in Vladimir, and ACF is painting “masterpieces” in support of him:
Novosibirsk. In two days, Grisha created the “Reaper” system and received his well-earned reward: a little sleep.
A lot of us sleep like this:
Lyuba is plotting something bad against the Vostochny Cosmodrome, where she spent the whole year investigating theft in its construction:
It’s night in the city, and only ACF’s windows are still lit:
On February 15, Borya and I spoke to the volunteers of the “Spring” march, and then we all went together to hand out leaflets in the metro. It was his last public appearance. Eleven days later, he would be killed.
A selfie, yes:
Every ACF employee should have a summons for questioning:
That’s me being detained at the office and taken to court to be sentenced to 15 days in jail:
Kostroma:
Alburov at a police station in Magadan after an attack on a member of his campaign staff:
Staff meeting. We hold them twice a week:
In Novosibirsk, a plastic document sleeve is called a “multifora.” After collecting signatures, we could have opened a store selling them:
Actually, 90% of the foundation’s work looks exactly like this:
Staff meeting:
We’re listening to Putin’s annual address and waiting for an answer to the question about Chaika:
Headquarters in Kostroma:
A search of the office:
The first title card for the film “Chaika”:
Makeup for the rally:
The Novosibirsk headquarters after the titanic effort of collecting 20,000 signatures. The signatures were flawless, but the party list was still barred from the election:
Thank you to everyone who supported us in 2015—stay with us in 2016 as well.
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