I will never give up my right to meet with people

Hey there! I’ve just been declared no less than unconstitutional.

*laughs diabolically in Russian*

Basically, Alexey Navalny is now unconstitutional.

But before I explain you what happened, I have one question for you.

Be you my supporters or my opponents, answer me, please,

how would you like a presidential candidate to conduct his election campaign?

How should he agitate you, convince you or talk you round?

I’m sure your answer is: “Well, the same way people in all normal countries do it.

We’d like you to come to our city, make a speech (preferably not reading it from a paper),

answer all our questions (preferably without preparation)

We’d like to have a look at you and understand who you are.

How else would we understand it? Just from the internet and the TV?

It doesn’t work that way”.

That’s why people constantly as me in the comments to my every post:

“When are you going to visit us in Murmansk?

When are you going to visit Ekaterinburg? What about Omsk?”.

And I answer: I’m on my way already.

I’m not allowed on the TV or in the newspapers, and the internet is not enough.

So traveling around the regions and talking to people is my way of agitation,

my way of getting my ideas across.

We file applications for all such events in accordance with the law.

And then I get a cool letter from the government of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

They have received our application for a meeting with voters this Saturday.

They’ve changed the venue but still allowed it at first, but then apparently changed their minds

and sent me a whole 12 pages of text explaining that we can’t conduct such a meeting,

because the activities of Alexey Navalny violate the constitution of Russia.

So the declared purpose of the event – meeting with Alexey Navalny –

is unconstitutional and needs to be changed.

Could you imagine?

I alone managed to violate the entire constitution that regulated the lives of 150 million people.

To this I’d like to answer to the administration of Sverdlovsk Oblast,

as well as to the administration of all other regions, and to Putin himself,

that my passport here states that I’m a citizen of the Russian Federation.

I won’t open it on camera, so that nobody can get a loan for a washing machine on my name.

But believe me, this is stated there, just like in any other Russian passport.

And just like any other citizen of Russia, I have a right to meet with people.

Both supporters and opponents.

The latter are also important to me, I want to talk them round.

Whatever you may write, whatever nonsense your lawyers may come up with,

I will never surrender this right.

I will still conduct these meetings.

To some of them, a lot of people will come, to others only a handful, but I'm fine with this.

I see pictures of US presidential candidates meeting with only a dozen of people in a café.

I’ll manage it as well.

In some places, the weather will be good, in others it will rain.

In some places everything will go perfectly, and in others hired clowns will once again

throw green dye, sausages and eggs at me.

It’s unpleasant, I don’t like being thrown stuff at, but I can endure it.

What I’m doing is more important.

So I’ll continue travelling. Invite me to your cities, organize the meetings.

I’m not afraid of any questions, I’m not afraid to face my opponents

and I believe I can talk round anyone who is able to think straight.

This week I’ll be in Murmansk, Ekaterinburg and Omsk.

And after that – in as many cities as I’ll be able to reach.

I’ll see you all later, subscribe to our channel, we tell the truth here.