Just two days ago, we were discussing at campaign headquarters what line of attack they would use to smear us on TV against the backdrop of our obviously rising poll numbers and the nightmare emerging from the fog for City Hall and the Kremlin called the "Second Round". stole all the timber works for the oligarchs looks like Yeltsin a stooge of the Americans All of these themes seemed worn out, and we were expecting something new. But you can’t teach an old dog new tricks:
http://www.genproc.gov.ru/smi/news/genproc/news-84064/ The same old story: "foreign funding through Yandex.Money." Front men "from 347 IP addresses." And now they’ll be chewing this over on the zombie box (state TV) from morning till night, hoping to convince pensioners who think an "IP address" is something like a spy radio transmitter. As you may remember, the first hysteria over this topic came several years ago, when the FSB requested data on RosPil donors, handed it over to Nashi activists (pro-Kremlin youth movement), and they called people who had sent us money to find out whether they actually existed. It all came to nothing, because the donors were real. And this time too, from a legal standpoint, it’s not worth a damn. But just imagine the segments they can make for Channel One and NTV! Once again: Our campaign is financed strictly in accordance with the law and is legally impeccable. All payments go to our settlement account at Sberbank. All payments are checked by the Moscow City Election Commission. If they tell us a payment is unlawful—if a patronymic is missing, or a date of birth, or especially citizenship—we return the payment. That’s all there is to it. When team members Ashurkov, Beskorovainy, Jankauskas, and others transferred money to the fund, they were transferring their own money. Then people who wished to did reimburse them. And they too provided all the required details. Now Yandex.Money transfers go directly to the Sberbank account anyway. You can see the sample form, right? If you leave out any of the required information, we’ll have to return the money. As for the 347*** IP addresses abroad, t***hat is, of course, utterly shameful nonsense. We officially have 1,200,000 Russian citizens registered with consulates abroad. In reality, the number is five times higher. And a couple of million more are currently vacationing abroad. And hundreds of thousands of internet users physically in Russia use foreign IPs. This is in the same category as "servers located in California." There are plenty of legal commentaries explaining that using Yandex.Money for a campaign is perfectly lawful—here, read this one at least. But most importantly, once again: ALL incoming payments are checked by the Moscow City Election Commission. If they don’t like a payment, we return it. So I ask everyone to stay calm. Our campaign is the most transparent one in financial terms. Our campaign is the only one funded by citizens’ donations rather than budget money.
Our campaign is the only one in which donor entrepreneurs have identified themselves openly and even issued a political manifesto. We are proud of our openness and deeply grateful to everyone who trusts us and supports us financially. The best response to the idiots in the prosecutor’s office and on state TV channels is to send us another few hundred rubles. Instructions for a bank transfer are here: INSTRUCTIONS Yandex.Money: Don’t forget to include all your details :) Update. A comment from Yandex, in which the company’s press spokesperson somehow still managed not to use the phrase "mentally deficient employees of the prosecutor’s office": A r*epresentative of the Yandex.Money press service, A. MELKUMOVA: First, the prosecutor’s office never contacted Yandex.Money. Second, an IP address only reflects the technical internet access settings of the person sending the payment. It says nothing about their citizenship. For example, if you send money while on vacation in Italy, you remain a Russian citizen. The transfer is made in rubles within the country. And** third, Yandex.Money does not serve legal entities. **Only private individuals can have wallets in the system. We do not understand on what basis the Prosecutor General’s Office concluded that foreigners were involved. From what we saw on the website, this is about IP addresses. IP addresses indicate only a person’s physical location, not their citizenship. *http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/1134350-echo/ So it turns out that the prosecutor’s office is simply lying outright. No one contacted them. Donor data was not examined. Legal entities are not served by the system at all. The prosecutor’s office literally made the whole thing up. ***Everyone go here: http://navalny.ru/donate/