RosVybory. We are issuing observer credentials in all regions except the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where we do not have any observers. Tomorrow is the last day we will be issuing credentials, so if you still have not received yours, hurry. Information on how credentials are being issued is here. St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, please take note. In your regions there were problems with the candidates’ campaign headquarters, which for some reason were not exactly eager to recruit observers. That issue has now been resolved. To become an observer, it is not enough just to pick up your credential—you also need to prepare properly. For that, we have a "Materials" section on our website. There you can find video recordings of lectures and many other useful resources. For example, this film for observers featuring Leonid Yarmolnik. We are very frequently asked the following questions, so we are answering them here for everyone to see. Q: I was given a form without a stamp. What should I do? A: These forms are not stamped. Q: The observer guidelines mention a badge, but I don’t have one? A: Using a badge is not mandatory. Q: Who will help me on voting day? A: On March 3, we will send everyone the hotline number, which will provide legal support and be able to dispatch mobile teams. And on Saturday, at the Izmailovo Hotel (Vega building), the Observers’ Forum will take place: a joint event featuring representatives of the Voters’ League, Golos, Citizen Observer, and other friendly organizations. At the Forum, you will be able to ask any remaining questions and quickly complete the full observer training course—so come at 1:00 p.m. with the friends you persuaded to join you at the polling station. Mobile apps and coordination. A lot of people have thrown together mobile apps and coordination systems—you’ll find everything online. I’d especially like to draw your attention to the Web Observer mobile app, made by good people.
http://webnabludatel.org/ An excellent app for iPhone and Android. Among coordination systems, I would like to draw your attention to Grakon. 3. Provocateurs. I am generally against putting emails from hacked accounts on public display. My own email has been hacked too, and I know how unpleasant that is, but this is an exceptional case that matters to everyone. The crooks—Nashi activists (members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi) planted their own provocateurs inside RosVybory, as became clear from their hacked email, thanks to the work of the Anonymous group. We checked against our database—the information matches. Interestingly, they chose polling stations where there had been obvious falsifications, for example in Tambov Region, with outrageously inflated results for United Russia. The calculation is obvious: "RosVybory observers" would then be expected to declare that there had been no falsifications, and that they were being paid with CIA money. The full story with all the details is here. We do not know how many more such provocateurs may be on the list, but now we know for certain that there are at least some. We will take that into account. 4. Ho**w we view a certain strange project, the Observers’ Corps “For Clean Elections”. **Very simply: the “For Clean Elections” observers’ corps are crooks and fraudsters whose purpose is to help organize election falsifications and cover them up. Let me explain: The founder is an organization with the promising name "Young Lawyers of Russia". The manifesto sounds impressive:
The leader of the public movement "Young Lawyers of Russia" is Sergei Bruev.
Thanks to the same Anonymous group, you may remember this "young lawyer" as the author of heartfelt messages addressed to one Vasily Yakemenko, a government official generously handing out budget money for all sorts of charming little criminal schemes. For example:
(from here) A brilliant idea! Too bad it failed:
(from here) A "young lawyer" with firm moral principles
(from here) A knight without fear and without reproach
(from here) Thanks to Anonymous, the entire "epistolary novel" is available here. More on the subject:
From here
I should note that this crook Bruev very much wanted to get a job at RosPil.
He sent us a million emails.
After Anonymous did its work, it became clear why: "I worked at RosPil and I want to say: Navalny is a scumbag who drags young people into this stuff, etc."
To sum up: the leader of the organization "Young Lawyers," which is the main organizing force behind the "Observers’ Corps for Clean Elections," is a fraudster working for Yakemenko and Rosmolodezh (Russia’s federal youth agency), and was preparing a criminal offense—giving false testimony in court and to law enforcement agencies. "Young Lawyers" is an outfit of swindlers and con artists.
This whole "For Clean Elections" thing is a Nashi project. Everyone who cooperates with them is a provocateur.
That is obvious. I am sure we will see plenty more evidence of it.
There is nothing more to discuss here.
Also read Oreshkin’s excellent text on a related subject.
5. Information center.
On March 4, our RosVybory information center will be operating.
The purpose of the project is to collect information coming in from independent observers from the RosVybory, Citizen Observer, Voters’ League, and Golos projects.
We will collect, verify, analyze, and distribute information about violations and the work of observers.
And well-known public figures will also be dropping by to talk about various things.
You will be able to watch the live video stream and read the dispatches from the front news feed on the "RosVybory" website.
That is in Moscow, and Yekaterinburg will have its own iCenter, and it is going to be very cool there too.