Homework

After the protests that took place across the country, a logical question arises - what next. That is, the activists will still break away, this is understandable - in Moscow, for example, today nationalists will take to the streets, 17 - democrats, 18 - communists. What to do for a non-party member? The masses are perplexed, Navalny is in prison, opposition leaders are sleeping off. In the meantime, we have not received any response. Vladimir Putin still majestically ignores the voices of hundreds of thousands of people across the country who send him to lead the Caucasus, since they love him so much there. The Central Election Commission stated that they see no reason to recount the votes and do not intend to do so, and Churov will resign only feet first. United Russia believes that we do not like the state of housing and communal services and sympathizes with us in every possible way, although it organizes its own rallies in support of its beloved.

This weekend we still won a couple of important victories. Firstly, rallies across the country were coordinated and approved in less than 24 hours, without paperwork, bureaucratic red tape and unnecessary chatter. We all understand that this was a staring game and a show-off of power. In St. Petersburg it is impossible to gather on Vosstaniya Square. Physically unrealistic. A rally for the Uprising would have blocked the entire center, transport arteries and city life and would certainly have ended in human casualties and riots. Nevertheless, thousands of people were seriously going to do this. And Smolny gave up and caved in.

Secondly, we tested the strength of the nerves of the “systemic” opposition and many questions immediately arose for them: the LDPR and the “Socialist Revolutionaries”, it seems, simply lost their tongues and all week they, like Vladimir Putin, could not “formulate their attitude towards rallies", the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is proudly holding a separate rally - well, you can understand them, it’s a shame for a communist to stand at a rally for democracy - and the Yabloko members acted like swine: first they threw an inarticulate violent hysteria with accusations of provocations, and then, as soon as the rally was allowed to " green light,” they immediately herded a herd of their activists with flags and leaflets to the Youth Theater, forgetting about their own “peaceful gathering.”

Thirdly, the rallies still ended up in the zombie box. And this is an information victory. It doesn’t matter how they were served and under what sauce, what the announcer said in the background and how underestimated the number of protesters was. We broke through the information blockade. Those who receive information from television learned about us - the very electorate that we could not reach due to geographical or social differences. Bolotnaya was shown on the First. It is no longer possible to hush this up; the dam has finally broken.

Moscow protesters gave the authorities 2 weeks to accept the terms of the ultimatum, St. Petersburg - 8 days. I hope that the ultimatums were sent to the Kremlin and Smolny officially, with signatures and seals, on glossy pieces of paper, including several copies for each member of the government. In a sense, we non-party people are on vacation - but during these vacations we need to do our homework. There is no need to do anything new. All we can do is continue to spread the word. This is our business, our feasible participation. Our viral editor has grown out of the short pants of the Runet and is walking around the country.

So, the plan for the week. Print new flyers, put up stickers and hand out badges. In any pub, cafe, restaurant, forum or social network, at a public transport stop, clothing store or New Year's souvenir store, discuss what is happening out loud. Thanks to the zombie guy, everyone who was previously deaf, blind, stupid and dumb learned about the dishonest elections. And we can influence these people and formulate for them what the presidential administration does not want to formulate.

Hooligans and vandals - take your mind off the desecration of people's monuments, all over the country (in St. Petersburg for sure) there are PzhiV election posters hanging on every corner - draw a mustache, write obscenity, express your opinion. Those who sat in the police departments after unauthorized rallies - pass on your experience, brag about your feelings and be indignant. Shit in the comments. Write angry letters to the CEC. Navalny is in prison, but RosPil is working, and on New Year's Eve they will cut mercilessly - wives need to be given new cars, children - vacations in Courchevel, mom and dad - villas on the ocean.

Any statement by the government in the spirit of “Clinton pays demonstrators” is submitted to the general court and replicated. Any action in the style of “Nothing is happening, we haven’t heard anything and we don’t really care” is heatedly discussed, we laugh and repost the news. As you can see, you don't need to do anything new. This is exactly what we have been doing for a long time. We can’t just slow down, otherwise the authorities will decide that we yelled and calmed down. Yes, we calmed down a little, that’s true - because this Saturday we saw that there are many of us, that we have power and that we are ready to change this life. We are calm because we are right. But realizing this is not enough to win. Until the next major rally - St. Petersburg on December 18th, Moscow on December 24th - we must increase the number of protesters significantly.

We have all the capabilities for this.