It’s Sunday, and I refuse to believe you can’t find a little time to go to a Rostelecom office or register online through Gosuslugi (Russia’s public services portal) so that you can then vote for RosPil’s bill to limit the cost of cars for government officials. We only need the last 20,000 votes. And I should also let you know that in the near future you’ll have to pay 0.05 rubles (5 kopeks) toward the purchase of a luxury car costing 4,599,197 rubles for some employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who apparently cannot imagine official life without soft-close doors, four-zone climate control, and, to quote the technical specifications, "MMI — a multimedia interface for controlling the vehicle’s systems (supports MP3, WMA, AAC, MPEG-1, -2, -3, -4, WMV, Xvid formats, with a driver fatigue monitoring function)".
http://zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/common_info/show?notificationId=6363063 That’s right: with 80 million working-age people, that comes to 5 kopeks from each of us for this car. Judging by the price justification, it’s an Audi A8L.
5 kopeks is not a large amount. But that’s just for this one car, and purchases like this happen every day. So every day you’re spending: 5 kopeks for this official’s Audi, 4 kopeks for that rector’s Lexus, 7 kopeks for the director of a federal state unitary enterprise (FGUP) to get a Mercedes. What we need from you is just a little time: register, vote, and we will get the necessary law passed. http://navalny.ru/roi/