Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement "Nashi" lay low for a while after their video-editing fail, but today they made their triumphant return. This time with the brilliant idea that "according to members of the movement, Navalny uses his attorney status to legalize income from vodka sales." Here is the special feature:
http://youtu.be/1U6FKjwP2U4 A very typical and very sad illustration of why this government fails everywhere, despite unimaginable amounts of money and administrative muscle. Because they’re idiots, and they steal the money.
Look, their main shocking piece of evidence for my "fake attorney status" is supposedly a "forged registration" at 69 Liebknecht Street, Kirov. And there—horror of horrors—is the regional administration building. All those blockheads from the "Nashi" movement had to do was read the local papers or talk to a local resident. Because everyone in Kirov Region knows that the governor and all his out-of-town staff guests live in a place with some official name like "Facility APMR325637," and the unofficial name "Black Lake." That’s where the governor’s residence is, along with a small hotel with 10 single rooms. Because it is a restricted facility and various officials protected by the FSO (Federal Protective Service) stay there, it has the same address as the administration building. The status of "Black Lake" is governed by a special regulation under which people invited by the governor may live there. They quite officially pay for utilities and meals. I lived in Kirov for more than a year. Most of that time I lived at the "lake," entirely officially. Since I lived there for a long time, I was registered there, as required by law. All these "Kirov secrets" are known to absolutely everyone; Belykh belyh even organized press tours of the "Lake" for journalists. And yet the only people shouting that my registration certificate is fake are members of the "Nashi" movement, who got hold of a completely genuine copy of it somewhere. As additional arguments, they show a frightened woman at the Kirov Region Bar Association office, whom they chase around with a video camera, and make claims about my supposedly insufficient legal experience (utter hell—I graduated from law school in 1999). I officially passed the qualifying exam in Kirov Region while I was living there permanently, and officially transferred to Moscow when I left. The Justice Ministry offices in both Kirov and Moscow officially registered me and processed the transfer. That information was always publicly available online—the attorney registries are published, after all. So there you have it: Rosmolodezh (Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs) and its leader Vasyutka from the 29th Complex have money to burn, and they have administrative leverage too—all my documents and data were handed over to them (most likely by the Justice Ministry)—and it still turns into nonsense. Because they’re not just crooks and thieves—they’re also very, very stupid.