March 26: everyone out into the streets — he is not our Dimon (a familiar nickname for Dmitry Medvedev)

What we have here is just like in *Treasure Island*.

Remember: I can’t see you, but I can feel how

your fingers are trembling. I can’t see you, but

I can hear your fingers shaking. It’s exactly the same

with our authorities and their responses to

the corruption allegations that we

made in our film *He Is Not Dimon to You*.

By the way, it has now been watched by

more than 14 million people. At first, the authorities

simply stayed silent. But now they’ve also

become terribly frightened and are trying to silence

everyone who talks about it.

They’re intimidating schoolchildren with their lying, hypocritical

school principal. That video has more than a million

views on VKontakte.

At the same time,

while pretending to care about people,

a university lecturer in Krasnoyarsk

was fired for showing the film about

Dimon to his students. So, do you understand?

Medvedev steals and takes bribes

on a massive scale, and so far the only person to suffer

is the lecturer who said a word

about it. He worked there for 24 years. He is right,

he is an honest man. He tells the truth, and

he gets fired over Medvedev’s palaces and vineyards.

As for our rallies on March 26,

the Kremlin has gone into

a full-blown panic. In dozens of cities across the country,

people have joined together in groups so they can

take to the streets together and demand

answers to our questions. No one expected this,

to be honest. Even I didn’t expect it.

At first, the Kremlin thought that this idea

would come to nothing, and they were issuing

permits for rallies so they could later

laugh while watching three

people show up. But now what’s happening is simply

a hilarious comedy about how badly

they got scared and are now taking back those

permits. But something seems to be going

wrong.

Something is definitely wrong: in Nizhny Novgorod they issued one,

and now they’re revoking it, saying

it was a computer error. In Tolyatti, the authorities

declared that the rally would not take place because

on the 26th, at that location,

an unforeseen accident will occur in the future.

So on the one hand, it’s incredibly

funny, but on the other hand, you can clearly see what kind of

disgusting crooks have seized power in

our country, and the extent to which they

fear their own people for simply asking

questions about corruption. After all, no one has yet

called on people to go out into the streets and burn down

the administration building or lynch

corrupt officials. We simply want

answers to perfectly legitimate

questions. Right now, they can say, for example,

that Navalny has hooves and

a tail. And then, on that subject, they can

repost and discuss it endlessly,

what color the tail is, and whether it’s true that he

ties it in a knot just so

it doesn’t stick out somewhere. And precisely because

they are so afraid, it is especially important for all of us

to take part in the rallies on March 26. In this video, I

will try to answer

the questions I’m often asked: how I

will protest, what to do at a rally, and

how to prepare for it. So, personally, on March 26

at 2:00 p.m., I am going out onto Tverskaya Street

in Moscow with our shared questions. You’ve

probably heard that Moscow City Hall

said no, that it does not permit me

to go out onto Tverskaya Street. But their

ban does not concern me for two reasons.

First, even the Constitutional Court

of the Russian Federation has established, and explicitly

stated in its ruling, that if we submitted

an application and were simply refused without

being offered an alternative location, then we

have the right to hold the rally. It is a lawful

rally; approval is considered

to have been granted automatically. Besides, as you

know, I have had many disputes with

the Russian authorities and the Moscow authorities

over whether I have the right

to hold rallies somewhere or not, and every one of those

disputes, without exception, I won in the European

Court of Human Rights, and in each

such case I was awarded fairly substantial

compensation—several

million rubles in total. And if someone again

violates my rights, I know one thing:

I will definitely win in court against them again, and

I’ll get money for it again as well. A very

bad person—I’ve never seen anyone like this.

All he wants is money, money,

money. And I can promise all of you that for

every single person—every single one across

Russia who is detained and unlawfully prosecuted

in court over our rallies

on March 26, I will file an application with the European

Court, even if there are hundreds of such people,

even if there are thousands. And I promise that we

will win every case, and everyone will receive

compensation. Second: how can I even

be forbidden from holding a peaceful rally

in Moscow? This is the city center—what, is there

not a single square anywhere

where people asking questions

about corruption could gather? After all, I

ran for mayor of Moscow, and even in

those dishonest, rigged elections, I

received 30 percent. So I know for certain that

I represent the interests of millions of Muscovites.

I ran in that election and promised that I would not let

them down, that I would speak out against corruption

even if the authorities started getting in my way. Maybe

the Kremlin thinks that if I record videos with a green

face, I’ll stop making videos. I

will absolutely keep making them, because even more people will

watch me, and that will most certainly not

stop me. So here I am,

fulfilling my campaign promise. What

exactly will I do? Tverskaya Street

is 2.5 kilometers long, and on Tverskaya Street there are

Belorusskaya, Mayakovskaya, Pushkinskaya metro stations

Okhotny Ryad: if they won’t let us hold

our official march and rally, then

they certainly can’t stop me from walking along

Tverskaya Street. I call on all Muscovites, on the 2nd

from 2 p.m., to simply walk

along any stretch of Tverskaya Street. Let’s

at least in this simplest and very

peaceful format show that it’s not only

Navalny and the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation) who want answers from

Putin and Medvedev. You can come out at

Belorusskaya and walk to Okhotny Ryad

You can come out at Mayakovskaya and walk to

Pushkinskaya. You can come out at Pushkinskaya and

walk back to Pushkinskaya again, moving

counterclockwise—that is, walk

any part of Tverskaya, or even the whole street 10 times

in a counterclockwise loop. If these

crooks block something off there, or

shut down movement altogether, then just

act according to the situation—but again,

very peacefully in any case. The main thing here is

to come and, by your very presence, tell the authorities

that no, guys, if you think we haven’t

noticed your silence about all these

palaces and vineyards, then that’s not

the case. Next, as for rallies in

the regions, the main thing is to remember why they exist at all:

from those in power, we demand answers; and to the rest of

the city, we explain what is

happening. That’s why the preparation itself

for the rally is no less important. In every

local chat, in every forum, tell people

about this absurdity that’s happening: that

an application was filed for a peaceful anti-corruption rally,

the authorities got scared, and now

they are trying to ban it—but people will still

come, because they know that

the truth is on their side. Use all of this as

a reason to once again

talk about the investigation into the secret

palaces of Medvedev.

leaflet distributor

Three people know there’s another idea

which, personally, seems to me quite

interesting and promising. It was suggested by

the well-known blogger Dmitry Chernyshov. Our

investigation began with sneakers, and

those Medvedev sneakers became

one of the symbols of his corrupt

scheme. And all of you have seen many times, at least

in movies, the tradition found in many

countries around the world of throwing tied

sneakers onto power lines. Long ago, this

used to be a symbol of youth gangs, but now

it has become a whole branch of street

art, and it even has a special name:

shoefiti, from the words “shoe” and

“graffiti.” Let’s do some street

art too: throw old sneakers onto

power lines, post these photos on

social media, explain to people what it means,

especially to the older generation. I assure you,

if this takes on even a slightly mass

character, these reminders of corruption

will work brilliantly. An elderly woman walks down

the street and says to another elderly woman, “Petrovna (a patronymic form of address),

what’s this—shoes hanging

all over the city on the wires?” And Petrovna

answers, “It’s the people putting up a reminder

that Medvedev collected through bribes

70 billion, and has nothing to say to the people

—he just laughs, and there’s no response to the investigation.

My grandson showed me a film about it on the computer,”

“and he’ll show it to you too, Stepanovna (a patronymic form of address).” That’s

exactly how it will work. After all,

state television, funded with

our money, won’t let us on. Radio

funded with our money stays silent about

the investigation. The biggest newspapers,

paid for out of our pockets, also

pretend as if nothing

is happening. So let’s use

the wires instead—especially since they’re maintained at

the expense of our housing and utilities bills. I’ll answer the question right away:

this is absolutely legal. Just

take precautions so that

no one gets hurt and there is no

damage to property. What should you do at the actual

rally? Well, I think most of

those who signed up in the groups in these

seven cities have never in their lives

been to any rally at all and have no

idea what to do there. I’ll tell you honestly:

often a person who comes to a

rally feels, well, rather

strange because they don’t understand what

to do—and that’s a normal feeling. I myself

felt the same way. Now I either

speak or do something useful, but

before I just stood there or walked around. But that is

the most important thing—that’s the whole point.

Bring Russian flags, because we are

the patriots—not those guys with Italian

vineyards. Make signs—this is

a great tool even for spreading

information about the rally. Photos with

signs spread very well online.

And our investigations department asked me

to tell you that it is announcing

a special prize for the creator of the best sign

from the March 26 rally: they will give away the exact

same sneakers as Dmitry

Anatolyevich Medvedev’s. Many people ask

how to speak at rallies. Well, here

if it’s unclear what to do and how

to organize things, there is a simple format—the simplest one:

an open mic. The floor

is given to everyone who wants it, one after another,

but for 30 seconds only,

no more. Where do you speak from? Even from

a bench or any little hill. For example,

I was just in Barnaul, and the people who came

to the meeting didn’t fit in the hall. So

no problem—we went outside. I spoke while standing

on a huge snowbank. A perfectly workable

podium. The main thing is to have something

to say. As for where to say it from—you can always find a place.

You may ask: is it okay to go to an unauthorized

rally? And this is important: we do not have any

“unauthorized” rallies. Every single one of them is

legal under the law, by decision of the

Constitutional Court. We have the right

to hold our demonstrations, and we must not give up

that right. Because all

the corrupt officials in Russia now want one thing — they

dream of only one thing: that you

stay home.

So the general rule is: we hold the demonstration

either where it has been officially approved, or where

the original application was submitted

if approval was refused. So

use the link below to find the group in your

city and join everyone else.

Most importantly, don’t be afraid. Come, and remember

that you — those who take part in the rallies —

are the most important people in the country, the ones who

can defeat corruption. Who besides you

is going to do it? But you can. And that is exactly

why they are so afraid of us.

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