Everyone to Tverskaya
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Hi, everyone. This is Navalny, and I have
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a genuinely urgent, emergency
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message for you, no jokes this time.
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Muscovites, visitors to the capital, and everyone who wants
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to take part in the anti-corruption rally in
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Moscow, come to Tverskaya Street at 2:00 p.m.
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There is no Sakharov Avenue.
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It’s Tverskaya Street. And this is not our decision,
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it’s the Kremlin’s decision. In
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the previous video, I explained how they are pressuring all
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the suppliers of sound equipment and
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stages. It’s a fairly small market,
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and we went through every contractor, including
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those we have worked with for many
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years. We offered any amount, even above the highest
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market rate. And everyone who agreed, after
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a while, called back, apologized, and
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backed out. They said, "We’re under pressure,
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the market is small." And we are being told directly:
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"If you take part in the anti-corruption
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rally, then you simply won’t be able to work in Moscow
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at all anymore." In the previous
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video, we played a recording from one of
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the contractors, and now listen to what
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the last contractor told us literally an hour ago,
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a very good one, who firmly
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promised us as recently as this morning that he would not cave in.
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Hello. Yes, hello, Ivan.
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Hello. I’d like to know
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what happened.
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Well, to be honest, I myself still don’t fully
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know what happened. I received an
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order
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from management, basically,
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to cancel this order. When I asked about it,
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I was told that maybe later they would
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explain everything to me, but for now there is no explanation.
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No matter what resources had already been
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committed or how much money had already been
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spent, we are withdrawing from the project.
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Listen, is there any way we can somehow get this stage
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back—well, I mean, have it brought to us,
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we’ll pay for it. I don’t know, maybe we can
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arrange it differently. No, no, unfortunately we can’t.
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This event is banned for us
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in this location.
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Do you understand? This event is banned for us
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in this location. We
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did everything we could. We agreed
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to Sakharov Avenue. We calmly began
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preparing to hold
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a great rally with excellent
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speeches. But the event itself is still banned,
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you see. This is,
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the swagger of the Kremlin’s thieves.
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Go ahead and hold it, but without a stage, without sound, and without
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lighting. Just stand there on the outskirts.
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But you’re not even allowed
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to speak to one another. The corrupt officials are forbidding us
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from holding an anti-corruption rally in
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this location. Well, I look at
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our Constitution and I see that our right
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to gather
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peacefully and with political demands has not disappeared from it.
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Therefore, I declare: the rally at Sakharov Avenue
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has been canceled by the Kremlin, and the protest is being moved to
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Tverskaya Street, which is far more convenient
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for the holiday celebrations. We must not and cannot
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be part of a staged performance whose only purpose is
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to humiliate us, humiliate the entire
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anti-corruption movement, and show
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that we are second-class people. So:
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Tverskaya Street. Especially since from
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Pushkinskaya to Okhotny Ryad on June 12
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the street will be completely closed off for
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pedestrians to stroll. Isn’t that
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wonderful? That’s where we’ll gather from 2:00 p.m. Bring
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Russian flags, paint the same flags on our
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rosy cheeks, and walk around.
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Just as on March 26,
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we move counterclockwise. Once again, the law
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is entirely on our side, and even
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the Constitutional Court is on our side, and
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the European Court is certainly on our
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side, and we have won every case of this kind against
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the authorities before, and we will win again
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in the future. Very peacefully, without under any circumstances
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getting into any conflicts, but we
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are taking to the streets because we are human beings and we
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have rights, and we will never
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give up our human
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dignity, and we will never agree
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to this ideal arrangement of Putin
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and the Kremlin: they steal billions,
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build palaces for themselves, while we stay silent
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and keep our eyes on the ground. That
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will not happen—not in St. Petersburg either, where they are also not allowing
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the rally to take place. So in St. Petersburg, 2:00 p.m. at
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Marsovo Pole (Field of Mars). Not in Moscow, so at
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2:00 p.m. on Tverskaya, nor in any other city
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in the country. If we do not come out, we will be
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ashamed in front of our children. And I very much
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ask you to help me spread
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this video. You understand yourselves, we need
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