It’s true. A team of ordinary people defeated Putin’s and Sobyanin’s party in a fair election.
The voters—the people of the Krasnoselsky District, if you like—said: we are against Putin, we are against Sobyanin, we support Yashin and his team. We like their platform better. We choose them as our local government.
Then this winning team actually starts working in the interests of the people. That may sound unusual when talking about elected representatives in Russia, but it’s true.
They gave up the official car and redirected the money to social taxi services for people with disabilities. They handed oversight functions in the council to the United Russia minority. And so on and so forth.
But they are not only doing “small practical things”; they are also taking a political stand. Within their authority, they declared a local holiday: “Free Elections Day.” Every Muscovite knows that local councils constantly hold this kind of local celebration without any problems.
But it’s one thing when it’s “Maryino Jam Day,” “Danilovsky Milk Day,” or “Gummy Bears Day in Kuzminki,” and quite another when it’s “Free Elections Day.”
How can anyone celebrate free elections when free elections are effectively banned? So ban that too. By every possible method, with every available force. Never mind that they are the authorities there and have the power to establish this holiday. It must not be allowed.
As a result, a handful of courageous deputies are fighting the entire state machine for the right to act on their election victory.
It is a real small-scale uprising: an island of honest, lawful authority against all the rest—the people sitting in offices thanks to lies and election fraud.
Let’s all support Yashin now. And among other things, let’s share this video as widely as possible. At long last, deputies we elected have started doing their job properly, and now they are being pressured for it. We cannot abandon them, because otherwise elections become completely meaningless. Why take part in them at all if, even after winning, deputies are forbidden from acting in the people’s interests?
