Blog will punish —*** I happen to think that everything is meaningless and useless, yet at the same time I understand that you can’t just sit around doing nothing. So what should be done? What you’re doing? I have my doubts about that. Your activity reminds me of fighting mosquitoes in an apartment. You chase them around the walls, jump up, swat them one by one. But what you really need is to put screens on the windows so they don’t fly in. — That is exactly why I’m “getting into” politics. Fighting corruption is a political struggle—especially now, when virtually all political power in the country belongs precisely to the corrupt. We need to put screens on the windows, which is why the campaign I launched under the slogan “United Russia is the party of crooks and thieves” is aimed at reducing the regime’s base of legitimacy. —** Whom do you want to take voters away from “United Russia” for? ** — It doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that voters leave it. My call is: vote for any party except “United Russia,” because we must deprive it of its monopoly. Its real share is 30 or 25 percent. If the Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament) had 25% United Russia deputies and 75% everyone else, we would be living in a different country.*