Our campaign is going great and has received the highest possible rating.
Apparently, the 18,000 volunteers who have signed up and the plans to open 77 campaign offices in 65 regions impressed the Kremlin so much that they decided to eliminate, with radical speed, the uncertainty over whether Navalny can take part in the election.
Over the course of today, every court where my lawyers and Ofitserov's lawyers are involved, as if on command, canceled all hearings, declared breaks in proceedings, and even "fell ill," sending urgent telegram-style notices to the Leninsky Court in Kirov.
Kobzev, for example, got a call right in the middle of a hearing from the Moscow City Court, telling him that our case scheduled for January 25 had been canceled.
And it is like this everywhere—even in the Moscow District Military Court and the garrison military court (those are the cases handled by Davydova, Ofitserov's lawyer).
Because of the notices received, Judge Vtyurin informed us that he is scheduling hearings for 16 (!!) consecutive days.
You can follow the live text updates from the trial here.
Fantastic! Some time ago, we were told that the "Navalny question" had been discussed at the Council of Judges (a Russian judicial governing body) (!!), and that all judges whose proceedings involved Navalny, Ofitserov, or their lawyers were instructed to make sure no one had any court commitments they could cite in order to demand breaks in the "Kirovles-2" case.
The people who told us this were reliable, but it sounded wild. As we can now see, though, it turned out to be true.
All of this, of course, promises a difficult time for me (and, unfortunately, for Ofitserov too), but it also clearly shows just how right we are doing things in this election campaign.
For some reason, the Kremlin thinks that if they hand down a new sentence against me to replace the overturned one, it will change something. No, it will not. I will continue the campaign, and I will continue demanding access to the presidential election.
I am sure you are with me.