You’ve probably seen how, for the past six months, those idiotic Nashi kids (pro-Kremlin youth movement activists) have been clogging up the LiveJournal top posts with their nonsense about “Navalny selling vodka.” Vasya from the 29th Complex even put a special clown named Goloskokov on the payroll. His entire job is to harass my parents, who run a small business in the Moscow suburbs, and write posts about it. His entire LiveJournal is devoted to this. Recently, another artificially boosted post was hanging around at the top of LiveJournal, where this same Goloskokov boasted that he would come to “Last Autumn” to publicly expose me (Navalny, the vodka king). Something like: “Of course they probably won’t let me in, and they might even beat me up, but I’ll suffer for the truth anyway.” As befits those brave Surkov-Yakemenko loyalists, Goloskokov himself got scared and didn’t come. He sent a couple of oddballs instead. The oddballs got in without the slightest problem; no one touched them. Admission was open. At “Last Autumn,” I gave two public talks, and anyone who wanted could ask questions. The “Nashi” people kept quiet. And only on the evening of the last day, when I was already leaving, did they catch me by the entrance, point a little camera at me, and ask their treasured questions. So I answered—I've got nothing to hide. I understood they would edit the recording, so I tried to work in “crooks and thieves” every other word. And that’s exactly what happened. By chance, a crowd gathered around us and started filming too, so now we can compare the two versions: From the post by this crook from Nashi titled “How Navalny Sets Up His Father.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=el1uacH1AKo 2. A YouTube video by an author unknown to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZKiSafDtvc It’s a real stroke of luck that these loyal little Surkovites are such complete idiots that they’re dumb enough to circulate an edited video when the full version is publicly available. It gives everyone a chance to judge the methods and quality of their propaganda. These people can’t even properly discredit anyone. All they can do is steal money and write it off as a “special operation against Navalny.” And yes, speaking of vodka. The theory that the country’s entire “vodka crime” is concentrated in a 50-square-meter (about 540-square-foot) shop is, of course, powerful and convincing. But if the Nashi movement has decided to investigate the “criminal vodka business” and go after “vodka kings,” then here’s an excellent subject: "Vedomosti," 11 Sept. 2009, "A Judoka at Kristall": Arkady Rotenberg, who practiced judo in St. Petersburg together with Vladimir Putin, not only oversees the assets of the state-owned Rosspirtprom, but also owns a 5.38% stake in the Moscow vodka plant Kristall. Vedomosti learned about Arkady Rotenberg’s stake from the list of affiliated persons of the International Bank of Trade Cooperation (29% of the bank belongs to Arkady and Boris Rotenberg each). The document states that Arkady Rotenberg owns more than 50% of Olpon Investments Limited, which in turn owns more than 50% of Russian Holding Company CJSC (RHC). In Kristall’s financial statements, RHC is also listed among the shareholders with a 5.38% stake, held in nominee ownership by Severny Morskoy Put Bank (SMP, owned by the Rotenbergs). […] Vadim Kasyanov, deputy general director of Rosspirtprom, which manages state shareholdings in vodka and спирт plants, including 51% of Kristall, said he learned about Rotenberg’s stake from Vedomosti. […] In 2008, 51% of Kristall was valued by MOK-Center, commissioned by the Federal Agency for State Property Management, at 2.529 billion rubles. That means Rotenberg’s stake before the crisis may have been worth about 253 million rubles. The Rotenbergs’ SMP Bank also owns 25.16% of Bryanskspirtprom, the largest supplier of alcohol to Kristall. http://www.compromat.ru/page_28855.htm No desire on the part of Dudaev-Surkov and Yakemenko to investigate how Putin’s buddy Rotenberg grabbed half the country’s spirits and vodka industry?
You’ve got “vodka kings,” “theft of state property,” and a “business full of crime” all in one place. That would be very interesting. And posts on that subject would make it to the top without any artificial boosting.