Ever since he was detained, I had been desperate to get my hands on this document.
We actually ran an experiment, and we even had a debate about it inside ACF (the Anti-Corruption Foundation). Would they be able to jail Volkov if he didn’t post a single tweet at all about the January 28 protest.
And indeed, Leonid didn’t write a single thing about the protest, neither on Facebook nor on Twitter. There wasn’t even one retweet. Not a single word on air. We understand how much Putin fears the voters’ strike, we understand how much he fears our election monitoring campaign, and we understand how important it is for these crooks to isolate the leadership of ACF (the Anti-Corruption Foundation) and the campaign.
So nothing. Not on a single platform.
And then Leonid is detained at the airport before flying to Ufa. Our lawyers and I wait to see what they’re going to pin on him. There’s nothing there.
We never would have thought of this. Volkov will be arrested (he’s already sitting in a cell, which means they’ll definitely arrest him today in the now-familiar “night court” hearing) because on January 28 he retweeted a video of my detention.
Wow. The best possible response is to go here, print out a couple of flyers, and put them up in your apartment building entrance.