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Hi, this is Navalny. Let's talk about where...
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it should be coming from, but we don't see
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the sources. Where do these millions come from?
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Money. Yes, yes, money exactly, because this is
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an election campaign. We spend
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quite a lot of money on it, and all
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the Kremlin propagandists keep shouting at us,
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"Explain yourself, Navalny, where do you get
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your money?" The main question is: is it really
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what we think it is? The time has come
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to report back and even reveal the secret of
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where I get my money. So, guys, the money
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comes right from here, on YouTube. This is
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the main source of funding for our
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campaign: your donations, which you
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send me in response to my appeals.
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We need money, and your donation
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is very important to us. Seven months have passed since
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the start of our election
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campaign. We have raised and spent on it
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98 million rubles (about US$1.7 million at the time). And I owe an account to our sponsors.
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Can we find out who donated to you? That is,
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I am accountable to you, the people who
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sent this money. In seven months, we opened 63
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regional headquarters, and accordingly we
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have offices in all of those cities.
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And we continue opening new headquarters, that is,
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we are running a real nationwide campaign
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across the whole country. I personally opened 36 offices
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and in each one held a large meeting with
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volunteers, answering, by the way,
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any questions I was asked.
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Which other candidate does that?
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Altogether, in these offices and in the federal
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headquarters, 230 paid staff members
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are working, coordinating the activities of
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our
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130,000 volunteers. To select, on a competitive basis,
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coordinators and
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office staff, we reviewed more than
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6,000 résumés. We organized two series of
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major rallies: on March 26 in 100
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cities across Russia, and on
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June 12 in 145 cities across Russia. We launched
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a live-streaming TV channel in addition
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to this channel, and at the time many people
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thought it was kind of a crazy idea, but
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now that channel has
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379,000 subscribers, and in terms of reach it
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surpasses most Russian media outlets. Well,
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of course, except for the national
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TV channels. The total volume of campaign materials
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printed during the course of the
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campaign exceeded 11 million copies. Unfortunately,
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about 2.5 million copies of newspapers,
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leaflets, and stickers were illegally
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seized—yes, stolen—by
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police officers during a special operation on July 6–9.
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Every week, our campaigners
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hand out on the streets of Russian
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cities at least 100,000 to 150,000 newspapers and
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leaflets, and the record was set during
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a major campaign weekend on July 8–9,
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when, despite truly
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unprecedented police pressure, we
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distributed more than 4,100,000
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materials. In June alone, our
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headquarters organized and held 209
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mass campaign events in
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large and small cities across Russia. More than
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560,000 people are already ready
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to sign in support of my movement.
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Volunteers—as I already said, there are 130,000 of them.
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They are present in every populated
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place in Russia, in every one. Money for the
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campaign is sent by about 70,000
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people, and the median donation size is
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500 rubles (about US$8 at the time). And here, of course, you say to me:
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"Dude, wait, wait, wait, stop throwing
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these numbers at us. We're not political consultants, we don't
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understand whether that's a lot or a little. 98 million rubles—
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maybe you should have done twice
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as much with that money." Fortunately, we
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have something to compare it to. Let's take
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the main political parties, each of which
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has its own presidential
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candidate, by the way, and see
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how much money they received from the state budget
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for those same seven months of 2016. During
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that time, the Yabloko party received 144 million
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rubles, the LDPR 491 million rubles, A Just Russia
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557 million rubles, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation 808 million rubles, and United
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Russia 2.076 billion rubles. Feel
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the difference? And here, can anyone
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explain where these parties
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spent such an enormous amount of money? Because their
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activity is barely visible, even though no one
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is stopping them. And once again, I want to draw your
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attention to the fact that this is all budget money—that is,
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your money, taken
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from you by force. And we exist only on
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money that people send us voluntarily.
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And I can say, with absolutely no modesty,
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but rather with pride, that considering
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the size of our budget, we are running the most
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effective campaign among all parties and
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among all candidates. Only we have
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so many volunteers, and they are not only
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wonderful, remarkable people, but also
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brave people, because in some
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cities, you know, the police are constantly
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chasing them. Only in our campaign
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do we tell people the truth. And that is exactly
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why the entire Russian Interior Ministry, abandoning its
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duties, is running around trying to seize
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our leaflets and newspapers. Of course, it is such a
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terrible crime to tell people
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about corruption in the Kremlin and about the changes
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that Russia needs. But no matter how much they
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run around and chase us, we
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keep campaigning and expanding it
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every day. So your money, friends—
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don't worry—we are putting every
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last kopek to work. We spend your ruble better
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than anyone else, and, by the way, we are proving that we
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can organize large structures and
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set up effective operations even under colossal
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pressure. Which means we can run the country too.
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govern far better than this
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gang of idlers and thieves who have
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everything, from trillions in oil dollars
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to millions of officials, yet they still cannot improve our
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lives anyway. As you have
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probably already guessed by this point,
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this video was of course made not only
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to report back, but also to
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ask again. Yes, we really need
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money. The campaign headquarters is now already a gigantic
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network. Volunteers need
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newspapers. Volunteers may
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work for free themselves, but we cannot print campaign
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materials for free, so
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we have to turn your rubles into newspapers,
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leaflets, balloons, cubes, stickers, decals,
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T-shirts, bracelets, logistics, videos,
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live broadcasts, and so on and so forth—all
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the things that every day convince
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more and more people in our country that this is no way
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to live. Under this government, none of
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us has the slightest prospects, and we
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must go to the polls and replace those who
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for 18 years have sat incompetently and fruitlessly
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at the helm. In the description to this video
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you will find all the necessary links. Go there and
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send us your hard-earned ruble right
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now—we will use it for its intended purpose.
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Thank you in advance. Subscribe to our
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channel—this is where they tell
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the truth. L