1. MosVpiska Statistics: Registered users — 2,240; offers — 421; looking for accommodation — 337; awaiting moderation — 34 A total of 122 people have already completed the full “vpiska” process (a Russian informal term for staying with hosts for free), and 547 are in line. That means 122 people will soon be coming to work with us as volunteers. Some of them are arriving in pairs or groups. Excellent. We devote a lot of time to moderating applications. This is our way of protecting supporters from problems, scams, and fraud. We moderate apartment offers according to criteria defined by the team. Right now there are more applications than accepted offers. But people are finding it fairly easy to make arrangements and get along with one another. There are already several stories of people arriving and starting to help us at headquarters and at the cubes (street campaign stands). The first two stories gave new meaning to the famous “Danila, I need help”: This is Daniil Belov from Vladimir. He has already used MosVpiska twice.
He comes to Moscow at his own expense and campaigns for free at the cubes because: “I want to do this so that we can get our first legitimate politician, and also because I believe that by working now in support of Alexei, I earn the right to hold him to his promises.” He also added that there have been no problems at all with accommodation: he is staying with a young couple, and they get along great. And this is Danila.
He arrived on Saturday morning and came straight to headquarters. Danila has been living in Switzerland for three years now. He says he wasn’t interested in politics until he moved to Switzerland. But then he saw that people live well there, while back home things are “kind of clumsy and broken.” And that hurt. Of course, he could move his family there too—there’s no problem with that. But his parents’ home is here. Danila notes that in Switzerland it is normal for people to have a say in everything—they treat their country like their own home. I quote: “You can arrange the furniture in your own apartment however you want, right? Well, that’s how they decide absolutely everything there. The method is the referendum. One of them, for example, was when they banned the construction of minarets. They simply voted. Then there was a referendum on holding the Winter Olympics in the country—they were against that too, because it would mean huge budget spending and would be bad for the environment. We may not be Swiss, of course, but making decisions that affect everyday life is only natural.” He learned about the project from the teamnavalny Twitter account. At first he thought he would stay with old acquaintances, but that felt awkward—he knows a lot of people, but he hadn’t kept in touch with all of them lately. And then there was MosVpiska, where people say they are ready to host guests. I started looking for a place on Tuesday, found one on Wednesday, and arrived on Saturday. They welcomed me wonderfully. I arrived and went to sleep. Then I went straight to headquarters. They sent me to a cube =) Now I’m helping at headquarters, in the office. I came for a week, until next Sunday. So MosVpiska works—use it and come work with us. http://mosvpiska.navalny.ru 2. Navalny in Every Home First of all, it looks beautiful. I immediately registered my own building in Maryino, and it was very cool to watch icons gradually appear in neighboring buildings and entrances. The resistance exists.
This project would have been worth launching just so we could realize that in every neighboring building there lives someone just like us—someone ready to spend “15 minutes a day fighting the regime.” Statistics: Registered: 21,433 Address provided: 20,102 Buildings captured: 13,141 Good, but we need more. Come and register. http://dom.navalny.ru There are about 40,000 residential buildings in Moscow, and we need one person in every single one. The forces of good are taking over the city.
In the near future, we will be issuing tasks quickly and frequently, but as we promised, they will not take much time. And the latest one is this:
The first was to tell us whether you received our newspaper. The second is simple too—you need to talk to your friends. Yes, about politics and the election. Just ask them what they think. Every day you discuss all sorts of everyday things like manicures, fishing, string theory, cars, or the secret lives of celebrities. You’ll need to chat a little about the mayoral election too: nothing unusual. You can probably handle it on your own, but if you find it difficult, we have prepared several sample texts to help you start the conversation. After some time, we’ll ask you for feedback on how the conversation went. Go to the website http://dom.navalny.ru Join us. Take part in the most interesting and most high-tech campaign.