Alexei Navalny’s speech at the opening of the campaign headquarters in Biysk

Guys, come on, let's go talk together.

Hello, my friends. We are not afrai

all right. Please tell me,

I come to every city. One second. I

organize debates, and on top of that I

allow people to ask a few questions.

If you want, please go ahead,

how much did your betrayal cost?

Tell us.

No, look, if you have

a leader, I don't know, of the Cossacks or

whatever, you do have an organization

leader, right?

All right, I suggest either we hold

a debate—it’s awkward to stand here and make a scene in the park,

right?—or come over,

and ask your question, whatever is more convenient for you.

The thing is,

Are you the head of the organization?

Yes, of course.

We'll talk later.

There are a lot of them, we won't touch that,

let's stay calm, everything is quite

friendly.

Don't be afraid,

don't be afraid, don't be afraid.

You have support here in Biysk. You are

supporters of NOD, right?

Supporters of what?

Against the State Department.

Right. Excellent. You are against the U.S. State Department.

You can see that there are people here who are

my supporters. Right. And did you

notice their age—your age,

interesting,

Yale University trains

leaders of color revolutions.

Medvedev stole your money, and I wrote

about it. Of course Medvedev is stealing from you.

Medvedev—Medvedev is the chairman

of our country's government. Don't touch with

your hands. Calm down. I'm asking you. Let's

make this much better if we

speak one at a time, right? So

I'm suggesting to you, guys, if you're not

afraid of a conversation, then come on, I'll

talk to the staff now, and we'll organize a debate.

You speak, I speak, everyone is comfortable.

If you want—look, even if I'm inexperienced,

yes, I'm absolutely not afraid to answer

any questions. What am I,

Excuse me, we need preparation—where

were they paying $32,000 a month?

Don't touch with your hand. Don't touch with your hands.

The preparation consisted

Yale University is, well, Yale

University is an educational institution where

I studied in the United States.

And why? What can Americans teach a Russian?

Who gave the recommendation to the

university? May I ask a question?

Go ahead.

Let me introduce myself right away. I am Isaev

Vladimir Ilyich.

Only I'm alive. The concrete one is over there with us.

Well, you

What does that have to do with anything? Put it away.

Wait. There will be war. War. Well, I don't

know, guys, you tell me yourselves, who is going to

fight?

Why, why is it that in your team, in the team,

it's all young people?

Why?

Excellent, let's ask that then. Let's

ask why it's young people.

May I ask another question? There is nothing in their

life experience anymore. Look, let me—I'm already on

a pension. As a pensioner,

I'll answer you, guys.

What is your name, what's your name?

You asked, and I'm answering why

there are young guys here: because in the city of

Biysk there are no roads. What nonsense are you talking? We need

roads. I'll build roads, of course I will

build roads.

Who did I destroy, or what?

Of course, people like you did. I destroyed

the officers'...

all that...

put Putin in the presidency. Chubais

works for your Putin, heads

Rosnano.

That whole crowd that carried out

privatization—their sons are in America.

Explain to me why, why

you received non-grant funding

about Yale University. Let's

continue. Yale University is

an educational institution. I studied there. Who

gave it? Yes. People like Guriev, Kasparov, Albats

various people—Albats is a citizen of the United States

of America.

Well, nonsense, what difference does it make? What kind of

difference? A big difference. These are not our

people anymore.

Ask away, I'm quiet.

She was a citizen of the Soviet Union,

then moved to the United States.

May I ask the audience a question,

how do you get citizenship? She probably gives

it to the United States of America. I am not a sir,

whether in wartime or in

peacetime. She is always ready to carry out

any order.

Anyone who becomes a citizen.

Listen, I came here to Biysk,

Navalny is here in Biysk. And you're talking to me about Albats.

Did she give you a recommendation

My name is Dmitry.

She gave recommendations, and she is ready to come out

in wartime for any, any

assignment from the United States of America.

Kasparov gave the same recommendation.

Yes. And there were also two other people.

Why are you filming like that? What are you filming, a crow?

So, those who took the oath, probably,

gave a recommendation to the States.

you are defending an interest.

Anatoly

Dmitrievich of the Russian Federation,

May I answer?

You asked a question? I'm answering. Anatoly

Dmitrievich, standing before you is Navalny

Alexei Anatolyevich. He is a citizen

of Russia, lives in Moscow in the Maryina district in

a prefabricated apartment block. And he came here to Biysk

in order to speak here in Biysk about

fighting corruption, to say that

the Putin regime is robbing you,

to say that everything here is falling apart.

Here in Altai, damn it, the official salary is

21,000 rubles. But in reality it's much less. You

do agree that salaries are lower.

Lower. Explain that to your friend. You

asked me a question. I was keeping quiet. Now let's

have you keep quiet. Wait, wait,

wait. So let me ask you, I'm

explaining in answer to this question that I came

here because all of you are being robbed and

I am being robbed in exactly the same way, along with you. And I

came here because in Russia

a huge number of people are against this.

And here in Altai Krai, judging by the fact that

United Russia gets such

a small percentage here, one of the lowest in the country,

one of the lowest, there are many people like me

here.

And who threw brilliant green at you, sonny? Go on,

get out of here.

Hell if I know. That's exactly the point,

I still... Good for you. I actually

am grateful that you're standing here and speaking,

because most of Putin's

henchmen throw brilliant green and run away.

ques

this company

there was no MRD company. In short,

my friends,

It's silly to stand in the corner in the snow, right? Let's

do this. Either, if you want, we'll have a debate,

or come to the meeting, you can ask

any two questions, as many as you like. Or

come, or if you want organize it here,

you can speak here, right?

You haven't answered one question. Why

do citizens of the United States of America give

recommendations to the children's university?

Explain,

why Kiselyov trashes America, while he has

a villa in America and vacations there.

None of them is a U.S. citizen or

a person who was given, a person who was given

recommendations, was given recommendations in

these matters. There.

Yes, no. I'm not the one telling you not to shut your mouth

.

Listen, Putin's daughters live

abroad.

They live abroad. So what, is that a lie

or not?

It's not a lie.

Listen, Medvedev uses your money

to buy a vineyard in Italy.

Fine.

And he makes wine out of

And he makes wine out of it,

you understand? And you're telling me that

your roads are in such terrible shape because

Medvedev is buying a vineyard in Italy.

Let's touch on the Constitution. What do you have?

Excuse me. Just wait a second.

We pay $1 billion daily to

America.

With $1 billion, we'd fix all our roads.

What's your name? I've met Anatoly Dmitrievich. And what is your name?

Lidiya Arkadyevna. Here's the phrase: leave

your roads. Our roads are for us. Excuse me,

of course. Excuse me, of course. Here in

this city, you are not the only one living here. These people

who have gathered also want to walk

on decent roads. They do not

agree with you, understand? We, you see,

Alexei, know perfectly well that you

are working off someone's money. You understand,

that you've filled people's heads with nonsense.

Once again.

Aren't you ashamed? You have two children

and you're selling your... I'm showing you,

that Medvedev is investing your money

in...

Come and ask questions.

We are telling you

the question. We're asking now. We are telling you

that. Mm. Not one question

are you answering. Come on. State the question clearly

and give a clear answer to it.

A clear question.

Do you believe that the Constitution of Russia

is the constitution of a non-sovereign state?

I absolutely do. Russia's Constitution

is a bad constitution, and together with your

leader, deputy Fyodorov, on this point I am

100% in agreement: Russia's Constitution...

So, the articles of the Constitution.

Which articles would you repeal immediately?

What exactly would you do? Say you're president,

you've been elected.

No, you can't talk like that. Which articles

would you repeal? You should already be ready. You're running for

president. Let me answer. You

won't be able to hear my answers if

you keep chattering nonstop. This person

asked a normal question. Do I consider

the Constitution the constitution of a sovereign

state? The answer is no. Because under

this Constitution, sometimes the president is elected,

and then he stays for many years. Because

governors used to be elected, but now

they are appointed. Because city mayors, including

yours. You no longer elect

your city's mayor. And your personal

sovereignty has been taken from you, stolen. And under this

Constitution

Billions of dollars are being siphoned out of Russia

and transferred abroad.

The Cypriot state has effectively become

the owner of the entire Russian Federation.

So yes, of course, I’m answering you.

Do you know who wrote

the Constitution for us?

Who wrote the Constitution?

Yeltsin, who appointed your Putin.

The one who appointed Putin.

Yeltsin personally wrote it.

Well, I don’t know, there were some people involved.

More specifically, future president, you...

don’t know such things—wait, I’m talking to

him.

Let’s do this. All right, I answered your

question about the Constitution. May I

ask you a question then?

You didn’t answer me. I also want to add to

this question. What are the main, what

are the main features, the articles of occupation in

our occupation Constitution?

Please name them.

Are you ready to hear my answer?

We are.

The main features of its occupation character. Are you

ready to hear my answer? You asked

the question. The main articles—just a second.

Go ahead,

so,

well, tell us

one second. So,

the occupation articles in our

Constitution are those, those articles...

Just give me the article numbers.

The entire Constitution is occupationist,

if an occupation regime sits in the Kremlin.

That’s all. That’s all. Because

the authorities are occupationist in essence.

You should know these things. Which articles?

It’s just a question, a simple question.

Your future president named them. Are you really going to

just keep shouting by yourself or what,

Why wouldn’t we? Let him answer. He’s the

future president. He doesn’t know.

Look, there are a lot of people standing here with you.

And I’m not even saying that you’re here,

well, you clearly came because you have

certain views. I’m not saying that

you were paid 300 rubles each, but the fact that

you keep talking and talking and talking all the time,

makes it seem like people have nothing

to object with. Go on, we’re at least asking specific

questions.

May I ask you a question? One simple

question for everyone. Do you like corruption?

No,

So corruption doesn’t suit you?

And the fact that I fight corruption—you don’t

like that? You’re only fighting for

corruption. Not for all of Russia, only for

corruption.

And at the inter—at the international level, aren’t you

fighting for Russia so that it can be

free? So that it can be free?

A hundred times more than Putin’s authorities do.

I’m fighting to bring Russian money back here

from Switzerland and Cyprus.

I do that, you understand, not Putin. I write to

the Swiss prosecutor’s office and demand:

"Return the Russian money." And Putin does not

do that. Why?

Did Putin jail Geizer?

Aryona

He did.

And Vasilyeva—did he jail Vasilyeva? No

he didn’t. And did he jail Serdyukov? That’s it.

Medvedev...

after Serdyukov. But there were new weapons. He was

something else.

It’s just impossible to talk over this. All right, I’m glad

to have spoken with you. If you want to

ask a question, please come to

You didn’t answer any of these questions. We

understood that you are deeply... Alexei. Alexei,

one more question. Alexei, one more

question. Come

A short one. You asked us

whether we were paid 300 rubles each.

No, he didn’t say that.

I said no. I said no. That you were not

paid.

I said that it’s also obvious from looking at you that

you weren’t paid anything. But over there, 300 rubles are being paid.

Well, I mean, you provide them with your crowd extras,

which, of course...

I don’t doubt that you came here

because you have two children.

I came here because I have two

children, because I want your

Kremlin, I don’t know, admirers not to

keep bargaining. They’ve been bargaining it away for 17 years.

If salaries here in Altai

were 100,000 rubles, that would be a different matter. Who’s next there?

Oh, my friend, he worked for Putin in the

government

Nakashin’s little son

a billion dollars.

If it is leaving, then why are we paying it?

Explain that. Because

Is Putin paying, or am I paying this tribute?

The system is built that way. So,

then why doesn’t Putin change it? Putin? Why

won’t he change the system? Isn’t it because

under the Constitution as a citizen

he is obliged to?

Then, my friends, I don’t understand at all

why you’re not standing with a picket against

me. Stand with a picket for me,

together with me. That we do not want to pay

tribute to America—you won’t be able to...

then first and foremost you should vote for me

not for America’s protégé

someone trained in the States will not work against

America, that’s how it works

I was already about to leave, but I can’t help

asking you the following question then, to those

standing here

one second

Do you think you can sell off the country quickly?

I published an investigation and found that the mayor

of Nizhny Novgorod had an apartment in Miami

and apartments registered to his mother. Explain to me why he

is still mayor?

Well then, explain how you manage

to find all this?

An open registry. You search by last name. It’s an

open registry.

All right, come by if you want.

A cottage development. Build yourself a little dacha there

there, anti-corruption fighter.

And here too there will be a real

election campaign. The campaign

for the mayoral election

in 2013—with volunteers, leaflets,

young people, and so on. I don’t know, probably

someone watching closely there thought, here

this will never happen. The exact same

campaign. This summer, the same campaign,

the same clubs, the same canvassing, the same

canvassing, the same headquarters, the same everything. That

is, that’s why we came here, for

that’s why we’re opening this headquarters, because

Biysk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk—all

the cities we’ve traveled through over the last

3 days are equally important to us. In all

the cities where very many

voters live who support the

values and the program

that we are running on. This headquarters has a

specific practical task, and a

difficult one at that.

So,

coordinator Vadim Ostanin—there wasn’t enough room for him.

.

So. And in front of this campaign headquarters, a very

small one, you can see that, overall, we

treat the donations

you send us, which are sent to us

from all over the country, carefully. We’re renting

not luxurious premises, but for work

this is exactly what’s needed. People will work here, here

they will work and process things,

prepare for the collection at the end of December—100,000

signatures.

So what do you think, is 100,000 really

signatures realistic?

Well, that’s it. Get out there,

and basically, we win. The campaign

will be a success. Woo-hoo.

And Vadim will talk with

volunteers, with those who signed up as

volunteers, to understand who can help with what,

who can distribute leaflets in their building,

who can

do it at work, who is ready in the summer to campaign at street booths

who can help with a car,

who doesn’t know yet,

who doesn’t want to,

they don’t want to.

Why fight? They’ve already bought everyone off at the border.

That is, the headquarters will talk to everyone and

figure out how each person can help and what is needed

from them. And then it will keep working with

those who left their information on the website,

invite those who are ready, verify this

information,

run it through all the databases so that everything is

in order. So that by the end of December, when

the real signature collection begins,

all the lists will have been prepared in advance,

properly assembled and certified, with only

the actual collection left to do.

Otherwise, it can’t be done legally—to collect

300,000

between December 25 and January 10. Well,

that’s not an accidental setup. If all this isn’t

fully prepared in advance,

perfectly, then it can’t be done. But

of course we can do it, because right now we already

have, I don’t know, about 100 people

or more. So a substantial part of the

task already looks solved. So that’s the point.

Remember this address: Ploshchad 93.

For exactly a year, this will be the center of

political life here, and we hope

for much longer than a year. And after that,

in some form, this headquarters will continue to

exist. And we must collect these

signatures, we must persuade everyone. We

have a chance to do it, because we

have the right program. And as for the

program and the ideas, Alexei can explain them much better than I can

himself. Candidate for President

of Russia, Alexei Navalny. Thank you

very much.

Thank you very much. Thank you so much, guys,

for coming here. I’m very glad to be

here. And I sincerely apologize for my

appearance. Though just now, as I was coming back from those

debates, I was walking past and there was already a line,

and I heard someone behind me say:

"Well, he’s not actually that green."

I’ve already learned a lot about folk

medicine—scrubbing it off with lemon,

with formic acid. Well, I’ve gotten a little

lighter. But

most importantly, I genuinely don’t understand this:

as I understand it, your governor

Karlin organized that attack there.

Do they really think that this will change

anything? I mean, I came here simply

because I am against thieves in

government. And as I understand it, you are

against thieves in government too. That’s

right, isn’t it?

Whether I’m green, or they paint me orange,

or I’m my usual standard pink, or

yellowish because of some people working in the

office—none of that matters. I will still be

against these thieves. And I will still never

stop and never calm down. Because,

I see injustice.

I see that life, in general, is arranged

the wrong way. At those same debates, they

those NOD activists (members of the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement) told me a remarkable thing,

who, by the way, as you can see,

are far fewer than us, right? But even so,

they think they are the authorities,

that they represent the state. They say: "Why

did you come here? We don't

need you. And we don't need a fight against

corruption here. Do you need a fight against

corruption?" Yes,

that's exactly the point: the whole country

needs a fight against corruption, but through

television, through their radio, through these

little stooges of theirs, they go around

telling people, trying to convince the whole

country that no one here wants a fight

against corruption, that no one wants change,

that everyone is perfectly satisfied, like the woman who told me,

said: "Leave our Biysk

roads alone."

Well, aren't they your roads too? They are my

roads too, and I drive on them.

I understand that there isn't a single country, even a

somewhat developed one, not a single country

in, say, Eastern Europe, where

there are roads like this. There are simply none

anywhere.

And yet somehow, in our country—a huge, rich

country full of oil, with

140 million people, with an Academy of Sciences

that built the atomic bomb and constructed

nuclear reactors—for some damn reason we

have roads that look like they've been bombed.

How is that even possible?

They are completely serious,

you understand? It's a paradox.

They criticize my program when I say

that in Russia people earn

low wages. They say: "No,

they don't earn low wages.

No one in Altai earns 20,000 rubles.

They don't even get that much.

Exactly. Tell me, please,

do you know—whether personally or among people you know—

anyone who earns 20,000 rubles

or less?

20 or less.

Good.

There are people who earn 17,000 and

less.

There are people who earn 15,000 or less.

Guys, thank you. I'll keep raising this to the very end.

This is a national catastrophe.

They can say whatever they want about me on television,

but I know the truth—I travel around the

country. I understand: this is a national

catastrophe when people in our country

don't even make $300 anymore. In no

country, not even in Eastern Europe—I won't

even mention Western Europe—does anything like this

exist. You can't live like that. I just came from

Novosibirsk.

People there were really upset because

utility rates had been raised, and even the raised rate

in Novosibirsk

is still lower than here in Altai.

And this is such a simple but

horrifying thing: people earn

15,000 rubles and have to pay for housing and utilities. How much?

How much do you pay?

Seven.

You see, they claim that supposedly everyone

pays two.

Well, where did they find people who

pay two? If a person

If a person earns 15,000 or 20,000

and pays five or six, how can they

live? How can they get medical treatment? How can they

possibly

Man, I need to make you vice

president. You keep saying everything for me.

I got carried away there. What I wanted to say is,

that

and all this is happening not even against a backdrop

of, you know, general poverty everywhere,

where there's nothing. It's not as if prices for oil

collapsed and that's that. This is happening against the backdrop

of the astonishingly luxurious lives of the entire

Russian elite and top ruling circle.

You've seen Robbie Williams's "Party Like a Russian" video,

haven't you? How does it look to them,

to foreigners? There are the Russians,

throwing money around, riding around on

yachts and everything else. But we see this

life differently. We see the lives of these Russians

in a completely different way. And we see that this

oil money—where does it go? It goes

into all these palaces. It goes into

yachts. And nothing at all is left

for us here. So it's not just that we don't

live very well—we are genuinely poor. And

what the authorities are offering us is

the stability of poverty and the stability

of destitution. Because for the last

four years, people's real incomes have

been falling. Every year

they fall. And they can't do

anything—I mean the Kremlin—to make them

grow. It's impossible now, because if

incomes weren't growing in 2013 when

oil was $120 a barrel,

then at $55 now they certainly can't

grow. We are guaranteed stagnation,

setting everything else aside. That's why I'm running this campaign,

but I'm 40 years old. I plan to live

for quite a while yet. I have children.

And I hope they will live in Russia. I

want them to live normally, like

human beings, to elect their own mayors. Do you

want that for yourselves? Do you want to elect your governor?

What is it—are we somehow unworthy? I don't

understand. All over the world

they say, "No, residents mustn't be given

the right to elect a mayor—those idiots will choose the wrong one."

That's what they think.

We'll elect a normal mayor. Why can't we

elect the governor? Why

can't we elect the president? I was recently

in Yekaterinburg, and there's that

Yeltsin Center there,

where all sorts of relics of the 1990s are. And

one of those relics of the 1990s is

a ballot that says

presidential election ballot,

it says Yeltsin, Zhirinovsky,

Yavlinsky, Zyuganov. Yeltsin was replaced

by Putin, his appointed successor, and that was it,

everything stayed the same. What the hell kind of

relic of the 1990s is that? I see a lot of

young people here. You’ve probably all spent your whole

lives with this.

These are not elections.

And the fact that they haven’t managed it for 17 years

means they will never manage it

ever. I drove into Biysk, and as I was driving along the

road, all I saw was advertising.

Loans, credit lawyer, help with

bailiffs. Credit lawyer.

That tells you that people are

flat broke, taking out all these

loans. They can’t pay them back,

because wages are minimal.

And against that backdrop, who watched my...?

How unpleasant. And as for

I love you. Just think about it

just think: actual charitable

foundations—and 70 billion rubles were pumped in. 70 billion

rubles. That’s several times more than

all charity across the whole of

Russia raises over several years. In other words, all those

kind, compassionate people who

chip in money for operations for

a girl, a boy, who help, who buy

medicine—they raise less money

than these thugs stole just for Medvedev’s

palaces. And they’re pointless palaces—he doesn’t even

live in them. He goes on that yacht

twice a year, and on Instagram they

post photos of fireworks. He came to one

place, hung out there for a week, then to another

place, and they spent 70 billion

rubles on it. With that money, we could have paid for

every operation needed by every child

who needs one, and probably, in general,

for every person in Russia who

needs a paid operation—we could

have done that with this money, but instead it was just

spent on Italian vineyards.

That’s why I’m running in the election, and that’s why I travel

around the country looking for people who think

the way I do, and I feel close to that here. I

have found such people in you as well, and I’m

very grateful that you came here.

Because, well, it’s important to show everyone

that we are the main political force. They

have nobody at all. By the way, here you

on

wife

on Crimea.

And they didn’t even organize it, because

come on, tell me yourselves: have you seen

even one rally for United Russia where

people came of their own free will? Usually they

say everyone comes voluntarily,

but they’re forced—they just herd in

state employees.

But in reality, we are

the only political force where

there are volunteers, where people come

for free, where people—in fact—

how is our campaign funded? You

send money. So people pay,

and then they also come and work.

They say, “We paid you—can we now

come work for you?” And we’re the only ones who

do that. And that’s really great, really cool. And

it actually shows that we are

the majority, strange as that may sound,

we represent the interests of the majority,

because every point in our program,

is the program of the majority. Fighting

corruption, fighting illicit

enrichment, a minimum wage

of no less than 25,000 rubles for those who

work full time,

taxation for oligarchs, not for

small businesses. Everyone agrees with

that. It’s just that over the past 17 years, politics

has disappeared. No one believes in anything anymore.

There were journalists here at the beginning. I

asked, “So what’s going on?” They said

everyone just thinks that now there will be

more of the same.

Indifference. Exactly.

As far as I,

and that, therefore, is the main goal

of our campaign. We’re not fighting Putin

himself. Who is Putin? Well, he’s just

a man accidentally appointed by Yeltsin.

Simply a cunning, lying, cynical man who

clung to power and is ready to do anything

to stay there. But he remains there

not even because of election fraud, but

simply because of one phrase: “But nothing

can be changed.”

I encounter it even among supporters.

There’s always someone who comes up and

says, “Well, Alexei, you’re absolutely right,

good job, let me shake your hand,

let’s take a picture.” But nothing can

be changed.

Come on, be honest—it can’t be.

Yes, it can, for God’s sake. Why can’t it

be changed?

Along with that phrase, “nothing can be changed,”

there always comes another one:

that Russians are the stupidest,

the worst, the most doomed? I

don’t believe that. I don’t think I’m worse

than any Finn, or any Canadian, or

any Pole, or any Estonian,

or than those Russians who live in

the Baltics in large numbers. There,

average salaries are 500 to 1,000 euros,

there are decent roads, there is no

oil, they elect decent

mayors, and everything works there. But here, apparently,

all we have is drudgery and the phrase “nothing can be changed.”

It means only one thing: that then we

admit that we are a doomed people,

a doomed country. We will live in

poverty, our children will live in poverty, and

our grandchildren will live in poverty, traveling

on roads that are not at all

like roads.

I refuse to believe that,

of course, everyone is already fed up with all of this.

That’s it. The future

is the most important thing. It is the political

system, it is a vacuum where no one does

anything. The city’s main

political force has gathered here. And in fact

I can see some ironic smirks there.

I’ll answer. I said this at the meeting

before. I’ll repeat it here. So, we

ran focus groups—not in Altai (a region in Siberia),

but we did conduct several

in Novosibirsk, and we asked people:

"Guys, how do you actually find out

how, from where, and for whom to vote, what’s

going on in politics?" What information

do you have about politics? What do you think

they answered?

Television. What else?

The internet, the media, newspapers, radio. But in

first place, it was always

that’s right. I have this one friend, and he

tells me everything.

That is the single most important source of information about

politics. Every one of you must become

that kind of friend.

And this cannot be overstated. People, in

general, are good and wonderful, but they

mostly follow those who lead them

forward.

Therefore, we must become the ones who lead

forward. All change is made by 1%

of the enlightened and engaged population in

any country. There are no

revolutions in which 100%

of the population takes part. It is always 1%. No

positive change ever comes from

100% of the population—it is always 1%. Here, we can

believe in our own strength, believe that

we can easily win people over if we start

working properly.

There is no one here to support.

There is not a single person here whose

salary is 18,000 rubles (about 18,000 RUB) or even a kopeck more.

Not a single person. Russian

healthcare is very good, and let it

remain that way.

That will not happen. We are the hope

of all Russia and the main program for all

of Russia. Let us believe in this ourselves. This is not

optional. Simply because they

are historically doomed. History develops in such a way

that these people

came to power,

and there they are, some last for years,

some last 17 or 27 years, but they are still

doomed anyway, because humanity

has already figured out that in a democratic

system people simply become richer, that there is

a direct relationship between corruption and

wages. That means the less corruption there is,

the higher incomes are—absolutely. It’s simply

100% certain. Therefore, in the fight against

corruption, there is a direct benefit for every

person. And this needs to be explained. Simply

explain it, clarify it, explain it. People

will hear us, and we will get 51%.

86%.

Thank you very much. I’m ready to answer your

questions. You can still remain standing.

That’s not fair to you. It seems to me that right now you have all

gotten stuck in an awkward spot.

Everything is clear.

the biggest force

all of me

that’s what I was taught

That’s how they do it in America.

All right then.

Buddy.

I know,

what happened.