United Russia has finally decided to make a little money off its real, popular nickname and file thousands of lawsuits against me demanding financial compensation: “The ultimate goal is to make the blogger answer for insulting the party in power — specifically, for using the phrase ‘crooks and thieves’,” the publication writes. The idea belongs to United Russia deputy Vladimir Burmatov. According to him, fellow party members approached him asking for help properly drafting lawsuits against Navalny. Burmatov brought in lawyers, who prepared a full set of documents for filing defamation and dignity-protection claims. “I want to help not just one or two colleagues in the party, but all fellow party members who are interested. That is why I decided there needed to be an online platform where the full package of necessary documents would be publicly available. All that remains is to print them out, fill in your name, and pay the filing fee,” Vladimir Burmatov told Izvestia. That means all members of the ruling party could sue Navalny at once — and there are about 2 million of them. If you take the amount awarded in the first lawsuit as a baseline and multiply it by the total number of United Russia members, you get an impressive bill: 60 billion rubles. The new website has a public counter that records every download of the claim forms. In the view of the initiative’s author, this will help Alexei Navalny calculate how much “his uncontrollable tongue” is going to cost him. http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2012/06/09/n_2381573.shtml I need to think about where to find 60 billion. Any ideas? And while Medvedev and Burmatov still haven’t sued anyone into the ground, we’re raising money for the June 12 march and rally. The first mass event to take place after the new Putin law banning mass demonstrations comes into force — a law that the crooks-and-thieves crowd also plans to profit from handsomely by fining people across the country unimaginable sums.
Moscow, June 12: Vladimir Putin counting up the fines collected from participants in the March of Millions. (not my idea) **If you want to support the action, here is the Yandex.Money wallet number: **410011232431933. The rally and march have been officially authorized. Gathering starts at Pushkin Square at 12:00. And finally, a motivational video, so you remember that staying home is not an option. It was sent in after the post about Chechnya’s 99% Chechen Republic, Gudermes District, polling station No. 136. Result of the vote: candidate V. V. Putin — 100% of the vote.
http://youtu.be/jxf-nRTDvGQ You can stay home if you’re fine with the president of the largest country in the world — our country — being elected like this. Come out if you do not want to live under the fake rule of Putin-Medvedev-Burmatov.