Popular bloggers about the presidential election

“Elections or a coup?”asks Vladimir Varfolomeev, deputy editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station . “Bloggers are filming this today in Moscow. Mostly in the center. It resembles an occupied city. It’s good that they are not demonstrating weapons. For now they are only flexing their muscles, as if warning: we are ready. We are ready to stop anyone who tries to protest the results of the “fairest elections.” (Photos from various authors from "Facebook".)

“Today Muscovites were surprised by an unprecedented number of military and police who were brought to the center of the capital,” writes Rustem Adagamov. “I don’t remember this since October 1993. Revolution Square, the entire space next to the Bolshoi and Maly theaters, Malaya Dmitrovka, Vasilievsky Spusk - everything was filled with trucks, special vehicles of riot police, internal troops. It seems that the entire personnel of the division was brought to Moscow Dzerzhinsky. This afternoon the city center was one large military camp. Why such a demonstration of force? From whom did all these glorious soldiers of law and order gather to defend themselves? "

“Elections are a holiday!” writes the editor-in-chief of the website besttoday.ru Marina Litvinovich . “A festive atmosphere reigns in Moscow today! People gather in even ranks in joyful anticipation.

In festive anticipation, equipment lined up in neat rows, ready to join in the celebration at the first signal.

Residents of other cities came to support Muscovites and share the festive mood with them!

Everywhere one can see good organization of the future celebration.

Photo by vova_maltsev " .

“Well, what can I say: wild falsifications, pressure on observers, carousels - all this can only ensure victory for Botox in the first round,” writes Krasnoyarsk activist of the “Solidarity” movement Denis Styazhkin . “They, apparently, have received an instruction - to stuff the Mr. Don with porridge properly, so that victory in the first round, and no second round. It’s disgusting from all this. Very disgusting. It’s disgusting to look at all these people from the apparatus, to all this sycophancy and sycophancy. A lump of lies, not elections. Normal elections are possible only in a de-Putinized Russia..."

“I offer this extended metaphor. Russia is a huge general regime camp, spread out in the snowdrifts,” says the leader of the “Other Russia” Eduard Limonov . “The camp authorities invited you to choose new authorities from a short list of people, which they also compiled. The list included exclusively camp commanders and their henchmen - the “authorities” of the camp. Not a single prisoner was included in the list, everyone was crossed out: even prisoners Yavlinsky was expelled, and prisoner Savenko (the one from Limonov), and prisoner Ivashov, and others - only seven. And you were inspired, running around, knocking each other down, feverishly issuing instructions on how to properly observe the elections, in a passionate rush, rushing to observe the elections, obsessed with making sure they were “fair.”

“More than 10,000 people are watching how in Dagestan they stuff ballots into ballot boxes in batches. And in Yekaterinburg, Putinists have already begun to celebrate this,”writes Yekaterinburg political scientist Fedor Krasheninnikov . “Yes, there is no method against scrap, and mass heroism on the ground cannot resist the industry of lies and falsification. All government services and the oligarchy are against us. The battle of the residents Hirashima with a nuclear bomb thrown from an airplane."

“There is more voluntariness ,” writes Maxim Trudolyubov. “Observers, ideological citizens, discussions, rallies. But also involuntariness : buses, builders, Mosvodokanal, enterprises of a continuous cycle. Good will against coercion - I wonder what the amount will be. I optimistically think that even those who were taken to Moscow to vote will think that there is a meaning for which the authorities bothered to drag them to the capital. And this It will also be a plus."

“The only person in Russia who really needed a second round of the presidential election was V. Putin,”says blogger Eric Lobach. “Not the opposition, not the country, etc. - because I can’t imagine that a significant part of the opposition would campaign for Zyuganov in the second round (relatively speaking: why would Nemtsov and Navalny do this?! Zyuganov is even worse for them). But Putin is an idiot - 60%, “The ones he has now drawn for himself mean complete impending apathy among the population and an explosion, not an “orange revolution,” but an explosion.

“I took a ride around the Center, walked around the Center ... - writes the editor-in-chief of the Daily Journal Alexander Ryklin . - Well, in general, I am impressed. The city, of course, is captured, and it will have to be recaptured somehow ... All these cops, soldiers, gopniks, stages, spotlights, screens, some three-story speakers, the Russian flag on the entire (!!!!) facade of the Moscow Hotel and military trucks, trucks, trucks ... Everywhere - along Tverskaya, on Malaya Dmitrovka, near the Bolshoi Theater... All the sites are filled with military equipment... Soldiers stand in groups near the trucks, smoking, looking at the Muscovites... However, the Muscovites are almost invisible - they run by, pulling their heads into their shoulders. I parked in one of the alleys near the city hall. I went out onto Tverskaya and walked down the right side to Manezhka... The oncoming group of tipsy guys asked. were they going to the Mausoleum correctly? Having learned that it was wrong, they remembered for a long time the cop who showed them the direction... It is also important to note that I was walking in a hat with a white ribbon at an angle and with another white ribbon pinned to the lapel of my jacket with the badge “31”. A man suddenly appeared near the post office’s shoulder and said in an even voice: “Alexander Yuryevich, down there, near the National, there are a lot of bastards, they are set on white symbols. Take away the ribbons - do you need it?"... I reacted, it seems, quite emotionally. I barked something like: “It’s assigned to protect - so protect, but don’t brains...” The little man disappeared, and I, of course, didn’t take anything off, walked to the “National”, admired this “triumph of will”, crossed the underground passage to the Duma and on the other side of Tverskaya returned to the car without incident... Honestly, I have a complete feeling that visited behind the front line..."

“I just got a call on my mobile phone from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow,” writes co-chairman of the Solidarity movement Ilya Yashin . “The man introduced himself as the deputy head of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Lieutenant Colonel Sorokin. He said that he was calling on behalf of the prosecutor’s office. He demanded that I arrive at 9 a.m. for a “conversation about the rally on Pushkin Square.” I refused to appear anywhere without an official agenda. Something tells me that I probably shouldn’t spend the night at home. :) But at least know where to look for me if I suddenly disappear somewhere tomorrow. The number from which they called: +7 (495) 670-63-44 And be careful, friends.”

“To be honest, we must pay tribute to the Ministry of Communications and Rostelecom,” writes Natalya Loseva . “In such a time frame, complete a task that was ten to one impossible: find and purchase cameras; prepare software; carry out installation; create a good, usable, stable website with a normal interface; distribute the load; make access through social network accounts and not drop all this.”