Petrovsky Park Newspaper

NAVALNY

IN PETROVSKY PARK

PORTRAIT OF THE CANDIDATE

“We lack only one thing — faith in ourselves. For some reason, we have come to terms with the fact that we rank first in oil and gas sales, but 69th in quality of life. We have come to terms with the fact that on paper our city is very rich, but in reality we cannot even obtain basic services. I believe that everything can be changed. There is no force more powerful than people standing in the park on a Saturday evening!”

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RESIDENTS’ OPINIONS

“Only today I hung a ‘Navalny’ banner on my balcony, and I’m proud of it.”

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DADDY’S DAUGHTERS, or THIEVES' PROPERTY

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ON SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, A MEETING WAS HELD IN PETROVSKY PARK BETWEEN MOSCOW MAYORAL CANDIDATE ALEXEI NAVALNY AND RESIDENTS OF THE AEROPORT AND SAVYOLOVSKY DISTRICTS

Sunny weather, Saturday evening. Young people are lying on the grass, parents with children are strolling along the alleys, elderly people are relaxing. At first glance, there is no politics at all. However, if you listen to the conversations, you notice that one name is repeated more often than others. “I’m telling you, you have to vote for Navalny,” one pensioner proudly convinces another. “Will Navalny himself really come?” a young man asks. “Looks like yes,” comes the reply. “Navalny! Navalny!” rings out among the young people when the candidate appears exactly at 20:00 in the square by Militseysky Lane and takes the floor.

Navalny presents his program to future voters and talks about corruption and the inefficiency of the authorities. He is 37 years old; for the last 17 of those years he has lived in a panel apartment building, his son goes to kindergarten in his own courtyard, and his daughter attends an ordinary Moscow school. Alexei created an anti-corruption foundation that has already managed to save the country’s budget about 59 billion rubles. That is because we usually hear about Navalny in connection with yet another case — whether involving “Rosneft” or “Gazprom.”

WHERE IS OUR MONEY?

Navalny suggests calculating how much would fall to each citizen of Russia, from the very youngest to the elderly, if it were divided equally. It comes to 640 thousand rubles per person. A three-year-old toddler playing near the stage let it go in one ear and out the other, but an elderly man in the front row perked up: “Is that rubles or dollars?” — “Rubles,” Alexei replies. But unfortunately, you cannot collect this money at any oil cash desk. In the Brezhnev era, petrodollars were not handed out directly either, but people wanted to see where they were going: to the construction of new residential districts and entire cities, to the building of factories and plants across the country, to science, the army, and space. There was even enough left to help friendly countries. Now, however, it is impossible to find a single large industrial enterprise built with money from “the oil business,” and space rockets on television fall before they even manage to take off.

And right away they began turning around and looking at one another in a new way, as if they had not simply come, so to speak, for the sake of the same goals. A young family — father, mother, and a little child, on whom there is an almost half-broken double stroller bought with hard-earned money, a man brought by the Great Patriotic War, brought to Germany on a tank, a man who doubts that Navalny will come to the meeting — all these people react differently to Alexey’s words. He believes there is no need to proceed from the assumption that some forces are controlling us. There is no force more powerful than the people standing in the park on a Saturday evening!

ALEXEY

RESIDENTS ABOUT THE MEETING

NIKITA:

“I was just waiting here in the park for a friend, and then I heard Navalny, and I became interested. I listened for a bit and decided to stay. This meeting influenced my decision about whom to vote for on September 8. Navalny is young, answers questions well and, it seems, is not afraid of anything. Personally, the housing issue is what matters most to me right now. My family has 6 million to buy housing. We can buy either a small apartment on the outskirts of Moscow or, for the same money, a house by the sea in Italy, and with a larger area at that. Is that normal?”

NATALYA VADIMOVNA:

“To be honest, I didn’t know about this meeting; I was just passing by the Dinamo metro station on my own business. Suddenly I saw your campaign cube, and there they told me there would be a meeting — so I ran straight here, I really wanted to see Navalny and listen to him. I liked the speech very much; all his views happily coincide with mine. I also want transparency and everything he talks about. Good — that is the most important thing. For example, I have an acquaintance who lives in a municipal apartment; she is trying to get the apartment registered in her name, but the officials say: ‘you have no right.’ That is inhumane... I will speak in favor of Navalny. Just yesterday I hung a ‘Navalny’ banner on my balcony and I am proud of it. I support him because he tells the truth and makes life better for people”,”

ABOUT COURTYARDS AND THIEVES

From trillions of dollars, Navalny moves on to utility payments and asks whether people are concerned about the housing and utilities issue. “Of course!” the crowd reacts lively. Navalny says that it concerns him no less. For an apartment in a panel building he has to pay quite a lot, and it is completely unclear what services cost so much. Last year, the company “Mosenergo” wrote off three million rubles for “Uni... ted Russia” with installment payments at my expense. Where does it get that money? Isn’t it from our taxes? Right after that, Navalny says that at one of the meetings in other districts of the city he was shown a photo of an entrance hall where money was lying on tables in the amount of a million rubles. The entrance halls were not in very good condition. “They’re stealing from us!” people protest. Navalny proposes introducing real accountability for officials and returning stolen funds to municipal budgets.

PRIVATIZED?

Sobyanin stated that apartments in the center of Moscow had long since been purchased for them. “This is standard practice,” Alexey readily explains, why he needs all this. He asks the audience: what does Russia primarily make its money from? The answer comes in a gloomy chorus — everything is so clear and obvious: “oil...”. Then Navalny reports that over the last 15 years Russia has received 3 trillion “oil” dollars. The obvious question here is: is that a lot or a little? Alexey suggests calculating how much that amounts to for each citizen of Russia, from the youngest to the elderly, if divided equally. It comes to 640 thousand.

Hands go up in the hall. Someone talks about visas, someone else about jobs. Navalny asks a question: who among those present has been to a European country? Many hands go up. Who entered there without a visa? Only one hand — it turned out to be a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. “The man drove in on a tank! But that doesn’t count,” Navalny jokes. General laughter. Yes, we know that you cannot just get into either Europe or the USA — in the USA you even have to pay. “So why is it that any republic of Uzbekistan can simply buy a ticket and leave? After all, we have a visa regime with Georgia, with Turkmenistan. So why are Uzbekistan or Tajikistan closer and dearer to us than Georgia, Turkmenistan, France, or Germany? Together we must force the return of the regime for the countries of Central Asia and Transcaucasia!” — to thunderous applause.

THE MAYOR WILL TAKE ACTION

“My dear Muscovites,” Alexei begins the conversation about polyclinics. And indeed, “dear” it turns out to be, meaning that four times more money is allocated for the healthcare of each Muscovite than for any ordinary mayor in Russia. Just 20 thousand rubles are spent on the maintenance of polyclinics alone. And this does not depend on whether you want to go to the polyclinic or not. “Our anti-corruption foundation studied government spending on administration very carefully. How many billions have been allocated and spent?” Alexei continues. “Where does this money go?” come direct questions from the audience. “And where does it go?” someone from the public echoes. Alexei cites figures and gives examples of real cases when money disappeared. People listen attentively. “We are also constantly monitoring this and will continue to do so,” he says.

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DADDY'S DAUGHTERS, OR THIEVES' PROPERTY

Civil servant Sergei Sobyanin has been at the head of Moscow for nearly three years. During this time, many questions have accumulated for him, but he does not like to answer them. And he does not answer. He remains silent about the sidewalk tiles, which in many places became unusable soon after being laid. And after all, that is hundreds of millions of rubles — either ineptly thrown away, or simply stolen by dishonest officials from the Moscow budget. He is silent about the landscaping of Tverskaya Street with scraggly bushes costing eight million rubles each (experts estimate such “landscaping” to be at least ten times cheaper). And now Sobyanin has a new topic to remain silent about: his daughters’ elite apartments.

MOSCOW

On the eve of the elections, the election commission published information about the income and property of Sergei Sobyanin, his wife, and his underage daughter for 2012. What immediately catches the eye is an apartment in Moscow with an area of 308 square meters belonging to schoolgirl Sergeyevna Sobyanina.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

In open databases, one can find the address of Olga Sobyanina’s apartment: Moscow, Rochdelskaya St., building 12, structure 1. This is a supermarket of elite apartments in the center of Moscow next to the White House.

In the same building, an apartment with an area of 200.2 square meters is for sale. Its price is 103.8 million, or about 518 thousand rubles per square meter. It is not hard to estimate that an apartment with an area of 308 square meters belonging to the underage daughter of the gentleman costs approximately 173 million rubles.

HIS INCOME

Sergei Sobyanin first declared his income in 2000, when he was a candidate for governor of Tyumen Oblast. His annual income for 1999 was 279 thousand rubles.

In 2003, together with his colleagues from “United Russia,” he published a declaration according to which he earned 1.6 million rubles in 2002. For 2008, his income amounted to 3,472,200 rubles, his wife’s income was 218,000. For 2009 — 3,219,776 and 18,586 rubles respectively. For 2010 — 4,760,000 and 13,900 rubles.

The incomes of Sergei Semyonovich and his wife for 2003–2007 are unknown to us. But even if we assume that per year it was less than in 2008, then the maximum total amount of the Sobyanins’ income could hardly have exceeded 27 million rubles by 2010. And that is if they neither drank nor ate, but only saved up to buy housing!

The cost of the apartment belonging to the underage daughter of civil servant Sobyanin is approximately 6 times higher than his income over the past 10 years! And analogous declarations by Sobyanin make it clear: he had no legal sources of income for buying the apartment on Rochdelskaya.

PRIVATIZED?

Sobyanin stated that the apartment in central Moscow had long since been declared by them. “This is standard practice,” commented Gulnara Penkova, acting press secretary of the Presidential Property Management Department. She also reported that the Rochdelskaya apartment was transferred to the family's management in 2006 as a service apartment. But it cannot be privatized, since under the law “On the Privatization of the Housing Stock” service residential premises cannot be privatized. In addition, a citizen of the Russian Federation has the right to privatize housing free of charge only once in a lifetime. Sergei Semyonovich had already exercised this right once, but for some reason the apartment on Rochdelskaya ended up owned by Sobyanin's minor daughter.

THE CHILDREN OF A CIVIL SERVANT ARE EASY TO RECOGNIZE BY THE PRESENCE OF ELITE HOUSING AND UNCONDITIONAL BUSINESS TALENTS

“As,” commented Gulnara Penkova, acting press secretary of the Presidential Property Management Department. She also reported that the Rochdelskaya apartment was transferred to the family's management in 2006 as a service apartment. But it cannot be privatized, since under the law “On the Privatization of the Housing Stock” service residential premises cannot be privatized.

Let us assume theoretically that in 2006 the financial situation would have entitled the Sobyanin family to receive a state apartment. That is 6 thousand rubles per person per month. But even in this case, according to the law, the family would have been placed on a waiting list. “It is possible to receive an apartment out of turn on a priority basis if Sobyanin is an orphan, ill or disabled, or has a large family,” explains lawyer Navalny.

ST. PETERSBURG

Civil servant Sobyanin also has a second daughter, the adult Anna. In 2011, two weeks after her 25th birthday, Anna bought an apartment in St. Petersburg on Malaya Konyushennaya Street. This is the very center of the city, a prestigious and very profitable place.

The area of Anna Sergeyevna's apartment is nearly 205 square meters; the approximate price is about 116.6 million rubles. How did the daughter of an official, whose average income over the past ten years did not exceed 2.7 million rubles, get an apartment worth 116 million? “We are not saying that she earned it,” Alexei Navalny writes again. And indeed, Anna is a co-founder of a commercial company. So what does this company do?

HER BUSINESS

A year before buying the apartment, Anna became one of the founders of LLC “Fok-rus-Group.” It supplies elite furniture to facilities, the list of which is available on the company's website:

- Building of administrative bodies (Khanty-Mansiysk) - Negotiation hall of the President of the Russian Federation - Block of official government international communications - Engineering and utility complex (Khanty-Mansiysk) - Office of the head of the Block of official government international communications - Reception house of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - Meeting room in the administration building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The talented daughter of civil servant Sobyanin supplies furniture exactly where her father bears the burdens of public service. The firm's interior business extends exclusively to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Khanty-Mansiysk. And exclusively to government facilities! It was possible to find only one tender in which Sobyanin's daughter's company was the winner. All the other orders were received by “Focus-Group” without competition.

TOUGH MANAGER

For almost three years Sobyanin has been running Moscow. His service apartment became the property of his daughter, who received government contracts and also owns elite housing, while city works are carried out for astronomical sums. And these questions can no longer be avoided; this is practically responsibility to Muscovites.

ON SEPTEMBER 8, WE CHOOSE ALEXEI NAVALNY!

WHO IS NAVALNY?

ONE OF US

Alexei Navalny continues to investigate cases of corruption in Moscow and around the world. For those who read the news on the Internet, his name is synonymous with a successful fight against high-ranking crooks and thieves. Together with his team, Alexei continued joint projects that improved the lives of ordinary people. Officials may criticize the accusations, but Navalny's projects work.

Alexei became a candidate for mayor of Moscow in order to fight arbitrariness and the fleecing of all of us at a new level. For Navalny, change in Moscow is the key to changes in the country. He is convinced: if corruption and impunity are stopped in the capital, positive changes in Russia will become inevitable.

"Real politics is saying what you really think, engaging in public and political activity without asking anyone for permission"

Navalny, like many others, sees the problem in officials and in the system that allows stealing. We are talking not only about high-profile scandals, but also about everyday corruption — repairs where money ends up in contractors' hands, about public procurement where billions are stolen. At meetings, Alexei gives concrete examples and explains how to return the stolen money to the city and the people.

Navalny was born on June 4, 1976. He graduated from the law faculty of RSUH and the faculty of finance and credit of the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He lives in a panel high-rise building in the Maryino district in the southeast of Moscow. Alexei's family is his wife Yulia, 12-year-old daughter Dasha, and 5-year-old son Zakhar.

NAVALNY HAS ALREADY DONE A LOT

Navalny runs several successful projects to help citizens. He has united thousands of people to fight theft and inefficiency.

PEOPLE TRUST NAVALNY

People trust Navalny and voluntarily fund his projects. About 30 thousand people donate large sums of money to his foundation, with which he carries out his work.

ROZHKI

WE KNOW HOW TO MAKE THOSE WHO TAKE MONEY FROM US FOR HOUSING AND UTILITIES WORK

More than 90 thousand complaints about violations have been filed, more than 25 thousand violations have been eliminated.

ROSYAMA

WE KNOW HOW TO MAKE BAD ROADS BETTER

More than 45 thousand complaints about roads have been filed, more than 12 thousand potholes have been filled.

ROSPIL

WE KNOW HOW TO DEFEAT THEFT IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The embezzlement of taxpayers' funds totaling 59 billion rubles has been prevented.

Navalny's program is concrete, realistic, and developed by the best experts. And Navalny will bring it to life with the support of Muscovites.

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