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My friends, I assume that your
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first question is whether or not
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I will continue to take part in the election
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campaign, whether I will continue to take part in
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the elections. The answer is very simple. Right
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now I am taking part in the election
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campaign. What we have just seen is
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a kind of telegram that came from
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the Kremlin. Simply a telegram saying that they
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consider me, my team, and the people
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whose views I represent too dangerous
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to allow us into
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the election campaign. That is exactly what
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the electoral struggle consists of right now.
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Nevertheless, we do not accept this verdict.
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This verdict will be overturned. Under
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the Constitution, I have
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every right to take part in the elections. And I
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will do so. I will continue
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to represent the interests of those people who
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want to see Russia as a normal,
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honest, uncorrupt country. I
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would like
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to thank everyone who has supported me
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all this time, everyone who supports
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me. I would also like to thank my
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wonderful defense team, which demolished
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this verdict several years ago and
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will do the same again. I am sure of it, because
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this is literally a copied-and-pasted verdict.
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I would also like once again to thank Pyotr
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Ofitserov, who all these years
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has been persistently urged to give
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false testimony against me, but he, uh, has stood firm
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and has not done so. Once again, many thanks to everyone.
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If there are any questions,
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legal or otherwise, we are ready to
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answer them briefly.
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As for the sentence, the probation period has now
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been set at one and a half years. So, in that sense,
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it has, so to speak, taken into account the years that
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Alexei has already served under the previous
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sentence in this case.
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In other words, the verdict is absolutely identical,
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100% the same, but what
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I have already conditionally served, what
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you might call it, has
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been credited this
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time. We will challenge it.
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And it is not even a question of whether we will
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appeal it. Once again, this verdict,
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this exact same verdict word for word was overturned both
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by the European Court of Human Rights and
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by the Presidium of the Supreme Court. Therefore,
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this specific verdict, exactly the same
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one, will absolutely, guaranteed, be
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overturned, and in the near future we will submit
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it to the Grand Chamber under the Council of Europe, well,
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that is, to the necessary higher
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instance, because we will show that
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the European Court's ruling was not
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simply left unenforced, but was unenforced in such
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a way, so cynically,
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that, well, fine, you overturn it there in
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your fair court, and we will do absolutely
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the same thing, literally the same thing. But we
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will overturn it all in exactly the same way. And I am sure
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that this will happen as soon as possible.
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Compliance with the European Court's rulings
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is monitored by the Committee
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of Ministers, which we have already approached and which
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is, naturally, now monitoring
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compliance with the ruling in the Kirovles case. As we
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today
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have seen, the European Court's ruling has not
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been implemented. Accordingly, some measures
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will be taken by the Committee of Ministers
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in response. Before the elections, in any case,
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across Russia. Before the elections in Russia, of course,
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before the elections.
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we will overturn everything. In any case, I
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can simply repeat once again the words
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that I said when this process
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was just beginning: we will conduct the
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campaign regardless, irrespective of
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what happens in this court. In the court
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something is happening that is being imposed by
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the Kremlin. Just as it imposes on the whole country
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corruption, for example, and theft. But
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our election campaign is not
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connected to the court. It is connected to the fact that
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there are a great many
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citizens in Russia who want to change the country,
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to make it normal, free, and
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uncorrupt. We will achieve that. And
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yes, of course, starting tomorrow the Kremlin
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will start singing the same tune that I am barred from
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taking part in the elections. But I want once again
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to draw your attention to the fact that in the
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Constitution of the Russian Federation it is explicitly
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written that the right to take part in
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elections belongs to everyone who is not being held in places
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of deprivation of liberty. At least for now,
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I am not being held in one. Many thanks to everyone.
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Thank you very much.
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