If you haven’t read them yet, I highly recommend three excellent posts by Sergei Parkhomenko The Mysteries of the Seventh Line. Episode One. The Mysterious Epidemic The Mysteries of the Seventh Line. Episode Two. Dr. Churov’s Nationwide Health Resort The Mysteries of the Seventh Line. Episode Three. Terror on the Neva It is important—very important—to write about this and to remember it. Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more takes like this: the election was a year ago already. Why keep dredging up the past? We should drop the demand for early elections, stop digging into past fraud, and move forward. It is impossible to move anywhere if we forget how, in Tambov Region, 20% of residents “voted” from home, as if they were bedridden patients. And in some districts it was as high as 40%. And Tambov Region is not unique at all:
We absolutely must keep digging into the past when that “past” includes hundreds of thousands of “voters” who cast ballots at phantom polling stations:
When we say, “We do not recognize the results of this election, and we do not recognize this government,” that is not a political pose. It is mathematics. That is why the painstaking work of analyzing the “results” of these “elections” is so important. And even better, Sergei and a group of colleagues have created an excellent service called Take It All to Court, which gives anyone the chance to take part in a campaign of mass lawsuits over the election results. http://www.vsevsud.org/ Yes, we know all about our courts. But let them work, at least. Let them deal with the fact that thousands of people are filing complaints on obviously legitimate legal grounds. Let them squirm and come up with absurd reasons for rejection. Poking the system with a sharp stick is always a good and useful thing. By the way, this service can be used for all sorts of purposes. Upload the form—and off you go, bombard them with complaints. We will definitely be using it. To Sergei Parkhomenko and everyone behind Take It All to Court: rays of gratitude and approval. A good memory of the past and a readiness to act in the present—that is exactly what we need.