What to Do About St. Petersburg

Please help settle this for us here on the channel.

There are one and a half million subscribers here, and I want you to

tell me who is right in this situation.

Look, here’s the situation.

There’s the St. Petersburg administration—the very same one

whose stadium was supposedly eaten by a cormorant (a reference to a famous local scandal/joke about damage to the St. Petersburg stadium roof).

And then there’s me, simply wanting to hold a meeting

with the residents of St. Petersburg.

I do have some support there—you can

argue about whether it’s large or

small, but there is definitely some support—and

surely I have every right

to meet with the people who

support me, right? And fully

in accordance with the law, for several

weeks in a row I’ve been submitting applications to

the St. Petersburg administration

to hold this meeting of mine. I’ve already held several

similar meetings, and

all of them went perfectly from the point

of view of public order: people gathered peacefully,

I said what I wanted to say, answered

the questions I was asked, shook hands, and

then everyone went home. Wonderful, right? But here’s the problem:

the St. Petersburg administration absolutely

refuses to give me the opportunity to hold

such a meeting.

And not only are they refusing, but just the other day

they said through their press secretary that

I am, in principle, a provocateur, my

supporters are provocateurs too, and there will never be a place

for me to hold a meeting in the city center

ever. In other words, they’re not even

trying to pretend anymore that they’re rejecting us

for some formal legal reason,

and from now on we will always be offered only

venues that are obviously inconvenient for city residents,

far from the city center.

So who is right here, and what else can I

do to legally secure

the exercise of my rights and the rights of St. Petersburg

residents? So, guys, look:

here in my hands is yet another application that

I am sending to the administration

of St. Petersburg, and in it we are notifying them

that we will hold a meeting with

voters on October 7 at 6:00 p.m. at Marsovo Pole (Field of Mars, a central square/park in St. Petersburg),

that is, I’m not demanding Nevsky Prospekt

for myself.

This is a perfectly normal, modest, and reasonable

proposal—Marsovo Pole. But if this

application is once again unlawfully denied, and

once again they send us to the middle of nowhere,

then, having shown the utmost goodwill

and exhausted all

other methods, I have said that in that case I

will call on all St. Petersburg residents

to come on October 7 at 6:00 p.m. to

Palace Square, where I will hold my

meeting, followed by a peaceful march of city residents.

That’s how it is. If you agree with my position,

then support this video with likes and

share it—especially if you live in

St. Petersburg.

And all residents of this glorious city,

please mark down October 7 in your calendars:

6:00 p.m., either Marsovo Pole or

Palace Square.

Let your administration decide which one.

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