Help drive this crazy woman away

Hi, this is Navalnaya. Today, this is personal.

A personal story.

After all, I’m not just a politician, but also a voter, and

I want to share my

—I’m not afraid to use the word—misfortune, and also

ask for your help, all of you, and

specifically my neighbors in Maryino and

Pechatniki. Together, we can do one

very important thing. In the Moscow City Duma, me and my neighbors are

represented by this woman

— Lyudmila Vasilyevna Stebenkova. She is our

deputy, and with Lyudmila Vasilyevna, everything is

very, very bad. I’ll say it directly: I have

serious questions about her

mental state. I’m not trying to

insult her, don’t think that. I’m simply stating

what is now a more or less obvious fact. Also,

as someone said: I’m not some little creep, I’m a resident of this

district. Why didn’t you tell me?

What do I owe you? The way she

behaves at meetings with voters and

her campaign video

raises no fewer questions.

I want Yuzhny Port in Pechatniki to become

a flourishing neighborhood in the district.

I want the Kran cinema and

the area around it to become a favorite

place for recreation in Maryino. I want

the renovated regulator ponds

in Maryino to become a new jewel of Moscow.

People, I love you. Stebenkova has been in the Moscow City Duma

since the very first day of its existence, that is, since

1993. She has been sitting there for 26 years. Interestingly,

she originally got there as a democrat. She

was a member of the Union of Right Forces party and

once considered Anatoly Chubais her

leader and the best man on earth. But

then, little by little, she began

to love whoever was in power: Yeltsin,

Luzhkov, Putin, Sobyanin. And now she is

of course in United Russia. All these twenty-

six years, she has been the chief fighter for

morality. Among the enemies against whom

Stebenkova has declared war over the years are

the cartoon *The Simpsons*,

the group t.A.T.u., the reality show *Vacation in

Mexico*, and even the pop group Blestyashchiye.

They were attacked over their music video. Stebenkova

has proposed banning entry into Russia for

foreigners, and banning departure from Russia for

smokers, as well as energy drinks,

hookahs, and nudist beaches. According to

Stebenkova, these are the things that corrupt our

moral spirit and undermine our “traditional values” (a common Russian political phrase). I already

I mean, this is sheer madness.

I think this is a good moment

to mention that for all of this, Stebenkova

receives from us

a salary of 6 million rubles a year (about 60,000–70,000 USD, depending on the exchange rate). I don’t

know why she is the deputy specifically for our

district. It’s not just me who is unhappy about this, but also

all the local residents who have signed

petitions calling for her resignation and generally

give her a rather chilly reception in

their courtyards across the constituency.

[applause]

You don’t need to be some kind of specialist

to see it — the person is simply

unstable. Someone like that cannot be

a deputy. But it’s like in the well-known

joke: stupid as can be, but still has money.

While fighting for morality,

Lyudmila Stebenkova never misses a chance

to make money. Here’s an amazing story: at one of

the courtyard meetings, Lyudmila Stebenkova

told a sad story about

why she lives not in Maryino or

Pechatniki — that is, not in the districts from which

she is elected — but in central Moscow, on Krasnaya

Presnya.

Let’s listen. It’s quite a drama.

On Novorossiyskaya Street.

Well, damn, I simply had... not a teacher...

family circumstances, not just

I had to, I had to. Otherwise, I really loved it there.

From the gates through which this torch...

Well.

That’s just how it happened, by chance, actually.

I didn’t want to... I tried... which means it would be necessary

to go through a shady place where you could

buy something.

So it turned out I was near the zoo, not

I won’t hide it — I don’t like living near the Garden

Ring. There’s nothing good about it, and

there’s no courtyard at all. If there weren’t

such a courtyard, I would be unhappy.

In other words, she had to leave

Lyublino.

She sold her apartment, and the only place where

she managed to buy housing was on Presnya,

near the zoo. But don’t get the wrong idea — she

really doesn’t like it there. It’s awful there,

disgusting. She would rather live here,

in the southeast. And we decided to check this

story and find out what it actually looked like

in reality. We turned upside down all the

old databases and found her

little apartment. Here it is: a one-room flat, 38

square meters, in Lyublino, where

Stebenkova once lived. And the place she liked so much —

she moved out of there 21 years ago,

in 1998, and moved to slightly

better conditions.

Then we found her apartment on Michurinsky Prospekt:

80 square meters. So how much could such an apartment

have been sold for back then?

For about 1.5 million rubles. And here is that

very “only place” where, with the proceeds,

she

was supposedly able to buy housing: Zoologicheskaya Street.

At No. 4, on March 25, 1999, Stebenkova bought

one apartment for herself — 100 square meters.

And four days later, she bought another apartment, also

100 square meters,

directly above the first one. Then these apartments

were combined into one two-level

apartment with an area of, that’s right, 200 square meters,

on the 11th and 12th floors. Today, such a 200-square-meter

An apartment of that size costs at least 80

million rubles

this whole story with the apartments

goes back to the very beginning

of the 2000s

but in Stebenkova's case, that doesn't matter: she

was already serving her third term as a deputy

in a row, which means that even then there was no way she

could have had the money for these apartments

from legitimate income; just as certainly

she also could not have had the money for a 180-square-meter

apartment in Khamovniki, which

she bought in 2004, in addition

to her two-story apartments on

Presnya. Let me explain for those who don't live in

Moscow

The southeast and Maryino are considered

rough districts; there is

an oil refinery there, there is traffic congestion there,

and housing there is the cheapest in Moscow

Well, for me, that really is home. I lived

there for 20 years, and only quite recently

did I rent an apartment closer to the office. I love

those places, but that also means I can appreciate

the hypocrisy: a deputy who has been elected for 26 years from

the outskirts of the city buys herself three

apartments in the very best and most expensive

districts, and then comes to our

outskirts and feeds people a line

about how, oh, she'd so love to live here next to

you, breathing the emissions from the

oil refinery, but that's just how

her life turned out: somehow, from who knows where,

tens of millions

of rubles and apartments

of varying degrees of luxury just keep falling into her lap. Guys, I want to

tell you that even if it seems to us

that they're just crazy

they are still, without fail,

also thieves and hypocrites on top of that, no matter where

you live

Take part in Smart Voting, and if

you live in Pechatniki

or in the part of Maryino represented by deputy

Stebenkova, then don't just go — run

to vote against her. Smart Voting is

the only chance to finally drive

this crazy woman out of

her deputy's seat

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