Perceived need

The author of the drawing is Alexey ruffe Iorsh

The first thing that caught my eye after prison was that now any initiative receives strong support among the civilian population. It would seem that I have been gone for two months, but something has changed, and it is difficult not to notice. Opposition actions? – Yes, from 50 to 100 thousand people. Car rallies? - Yes, there is a three-lane traffic jam on the Garden Ring. Single pickets? Yes, at every station of the Moscow metro. The same applies to the participants of all these actions: now there are so many people unfamiliar to me at the rallies that sometimes it seems that I am at the wrong event. Where did they come from? After all, Putin did not fall on us unexpectedly; for the last 12 years he has always been here. But something happened to the worldview of average citizens, and now they are increasingly attending street protests.

Probably the starting point was Medvedev’s autumn statement about his support for Putin’s candidacy in the presidential elections. After this, the intrigue of recent years was unraveled, and everything fell into place. Of course, all this is not very happy, but there is also a practical benefit to it. After all, it was Putin’s third presidency that pushed hitherto politically passive people to protest. In this regard, Vladimir Vladimirovich is a worthy opponent, it is easier to be in opposition to him, to fight. Unlike Medevedev or anyone else, here everything is clearly laid out in black and white.

On February 4, a campaign “For Fair Elections” will be held in Moscow and many Russian cities. Despite the cold weather, thousands of people will take to the squares of their cities to protest the upcoming presidential elections. We'll all go out there.

And today in Moscow there will be an action “ Breaking the information blockade ” - a series of single pickets at metro stations with a call to come to the march on February 4. Go out at 18:00 each to your metro station and invite your fellow citizens to October Square on Saturday.

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