Meanwhile, the video has already reached 355,000 views. Let’s give it another push, my friends. Let’s get it to a million. A reminder: you can download the original video here and copy it for distribution on your local network, etc. Or just put it on your phone to show your grandmother. OUT (HQ).mp4 It’s interesting how the crooks from United Russia started squealing over this video: it’s all lies! That’s what we’re being told by people who lie ALL THE TIME. About everything, using the federal TV channels. One functionary said to me outright: Alexei, why use our methods? You’re losing face. We expected a fair fight. This is a fair fight, my dear crooks and thieves from United Russia. The Manifesto-2002 is not a fake. It was born inside United Russia, it was posted on the party’s website, it was written by United Russia members, and it was discussed at the general council of your pathetic party. Yes, after the press hounded you, you never formally adopted it. But that doesn’t matter, because you’re still shoving this same Manifesto down our throats. Take just one of its classic lines: "By 2008, Chechnya and the entire North Caucasus will become Russia’s tourist ‘Mecca’" Why, you swindlers, you’re still pushing that line even now. And not just pushing it, but also stealing enormous sums under the slogan of “developing resorts in the North Caucasus.” Vnesheconombank (VEB), Russia’s state development bank, is issuing a loan of up to 10.2 billion rubles (about 255 million USD at the time) for nine years to the Chechen company Veduchi LLC for the construction of the year-round ski resort of the same name in the Itum-Kale district, Interfax reports. This spring, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov spoke about opening the resort, which he said would allow “extreme sports enthusiasts to come almost year-round.” He estimated investment in the project at around 14 billion rubles (about 350 million USD at the time). http://www.gazeta.ru/news/business/2011/10/13/n_2050574.shtml VEB is 100% state-owned. The chairman of its supervisory board is V. V. Putin, the leader of United Russia. As they hand our money over to Kadyrov’s bandits, they once again tell us about Russia’s “tourist ‘Mecca.’” Yes, yes. After all, since Manifesto-2002, tourist traffic to Chechnya has grown so dramatically, hasn’t it? That’s why this video needs to be spread around. So people remember what the Crooks and Thieves promise—and see what they’re promising all over again.