Hi everyone. I’m back. Those 25 days flew by unnoticed (not really—it was unbearably tedious, and I got thoroughly sick of the cell, tea, reading, instant noodles, and “Comedy Radio” on the prison’s internal radio system).
Over these 25 days, as I see it, the situation has changed, and the Kremlin has stopped pretending it finds the opening of our campaign offices across the country amusing. A full-scale crackdown is underway, and what’s happening is best described by this tweet:
Over the past few days, my lawyers kept bringing me notes with questions about how I assess all this, and whether I think our anti-corruption campaign (and my presidential campaign) have been crushed, and so on.
As soon as I was released today, I went straight to the office and recorded a new video answering those questions:
In short: I’m very pleased. The campaign headquarters is working excellently even without my involvement. In just four months, the anti-corruption campaign has punched a huge hole in the wall of censorship. The geographic spread of the protests across the regions is unprecedented. The Kremlin is losing its mind and trying to stop us purely through police lawlessness—nothing else is working. And on our side, everything is working. We are persuading people and winning them over.
We’ll work even harder. And we’ll overcome every difficulty.