Pay 850,000 rubles, Navalny
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A 300,000-ruble fine was imposed on me,
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an administrative fine in the amount of
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300,000 rubles; a 300,000-ruble fine for Volkov;
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a fine of 30,000 rubles, plus a 250,000-ruble fine
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for Lyaskin. Total:
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850,000 rubles we will have to pay into
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the Russian budget because we were, well, doing exactly what
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any campaign headquarters is supposed to do
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for any normal candidate, namely
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handing out newspapers and leaflets to people.
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That was the ruling handed down yesterday by a pro-Putin court,
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and it phrased the accusation
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in simply brilliant terms: the holding of a public
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event in a concealed form. Thus,
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the distribution of leaflets containing
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features of campaign materials,
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used as a means of campaigning,
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constitutes nothing other than a form
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of a collective public
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event. What does that even mean?
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It’s unclear. But it is absolutely clear why they’re doing it.
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It drives them crazy that our campaign has
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volunteers. It drives them crazy that you send us
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money for the campaign. It stings, because for years
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they’ve been bragging about their huge approval ratings.
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But has anyone ever seen
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a person working for free
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at the campaign headquarters of United Russia or
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Putin? Of course not. Do you know
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anyone who would donate even 1 ruble
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to their election campaign? No chance. And
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as for their rallies, for there to be even
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anyone there, they have to herd in
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state employees, students, public utilities workers.
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A little “for Putin” handout here and there. That’s why
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they’re twisting themselves up in knots there in the Kremlin
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at the very thought that there are
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millions of people in the country who disagree with their
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policies, and hundreds of thousands who are ready
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to work for a candidate offering
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a sensible program to improve people’s lives
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for free. Basically, in this video I didn’t want to say anything
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special, except that
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yes, we understand this strategy: they
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want to ruin our headquarters, bankrupt us,
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simply steal your money. You donate to us,
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and they take it away through rulings like these.
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We understand all of it. And
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it won’t work. We still will not
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be silenced. We will not stop telling the truth
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in our newspapers and leaflets. Arrests did not
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stop us, and fines will not stop us either.
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I will not become the kind of candidate
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the Kremlin likes: one who does nothing,
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and if he wants to do something, runs off
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to ask permission. That won’t work with me.
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And to entertain you, here’s a funny
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moment from yesterday that my lawyer noticed
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while photographing the case materials. They’re
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prepared by the police, and among the protocols, reports,
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and other legal nonsense, they had attached
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this photo of me, and written across the top in pen
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was “Navalny.” The only thing missing, damn it,
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Subscribe to our channel. Here
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we tell the truth.