Yesterday's call to demand answers from Medvedev out in the streets seems to have gone over pretty well.
Although, I have to admit, I realize it’s not my powers of persuasion at work here — it’s Dimon himself and his remarkable real estate holdings.
I assume this isn’t all of them, but from the comments under the YouTube video (it’s about to hit a million views), the following groups organizing rallies have been identified:
Official gatherings (organizers — representatives of Navalny’s campaign offices): Astrakhan — vk.com/dimon_ast Barnaul — vk.com/dimon_barnaul Biysk — vk.com/dimon_biysk Volgograd — vk.com/dimon_vlg Voronezh — vk.com/dimon_vrnzh Yekaterinburg — vk.com/dimon_ekat Irkutsk — https://www.facebook.com/events/1447758088577309/ Kazan — vk.com/dimon_kzn Krasnodar — vk.com/dimon_krd Krasnoyarsk — vk.com/dimon_krsk Moscow — facebook.com/events/1860803440858828/ Nizhny Novgorod — vk.com/dimon_nn Novosibirsk — vk.com/dimon_nsk Perm — vk.com/dimon_permb Rostov-on-Don — vk.com/dimon_rnd Samara — vk.com/dimon_samara St. Petersburg — vk.com/dimon_saintp Saratov — vk.com/dimon_srtv Tver — vk.com/dimon_tver Tomsk — vk.com/dimon_tomsk Tyumen — vk.com/dimon_tmn Ufa — vk.com/dimon_bashkiria Khabarovsk — vk.com/dimon_khvsk Cheboksary — vk.com/dimon_chuv Chelyabinsk — vk.com/dimon_chel Vologda — https://vk.com/mitingvologda
“Citizen-organized” gatherings: 27. Armavir — vk.com/club8869990 28. Arkhangelsk — vk.com/club142613767 29. Belgorod — vk.com/club142607863 30. Bryansk — vk.com/club142607124 31. Izhevsk — vk.com/event142595552 32. Irkutsk — vk.com/event142588458 33. Ishim — vk.com/navalny_ishim 34. Kaliningrad — vk.com/navalny_kld 35. Kaluga — https://vk.com/club142599120 36. Kirov — vk.com/event142591627 37. Lipetsk — vk.com/navalnylip 38. Magnitogorsk — vk.com/teamnavalny_mgn74 39. Makhachkala — vk.com/dimon_mkala 40. Moscow Region — https://vk.com/anti_dimon 41. Nefteyugansk — vk.com/dimon_yugansk 42. Nizhny Tagil — vk.com/dimon_tagil 43. Omsk — vk.com/omsk_trebuet_otvet 44. Oryol — vk.com/nedimonorel 45. Orenburg — vk.com/event142596129 46. Penza — https://vk.com/teamnavalny_penza 47. Ryazan — vk.com/navalny62 48. Saransk — vk.com/club142601056 49. Syktyvkar — vk.com/dimon_sykt 50. Tolyatti — vk.com/club142591947 51. Tula — vk.com/event142611406 52. Ulyanovsk — vk.com/ulyanovsk26 53. Chita — vk.com/club141385841 54. Yaroslavl — https://vk.com/event142612710
Meanwhile, the rally in Voronezh has already been officially approved.
And in St. Petersburg, the application was filed for Hyde Park, where no official approval is required.
A real-time updated list of cities is here.
A reminder that throughout today, you can submit an application to hold a rally in your city. A sample application form is available here.
Do it, even if you’ve never been to a rally before. It’s fun, and you’re not risking anything. In the worst-case scenario, only you and two of your friends will show up. You’ll take funny photos of each other with little signs, and later you’ll remember for a long time this amusing experience of organizing an anti-corruption rally.
And here’s a funny story from Tomsk. Local authorities asked applicants to specify who was funding the rally — and were promptly told where to go. They were left puzzled: why has everyone suddenly gone crazy and been bringing in rally applications all morning?