Evgeniy Levkovich: “We did not collect signatures”

“We didn’t collect signatures. Honestly, we didn’t. There won’t be any howling about the bloody regime - we just didn’t collect them, period. There are five reasons for this.

The first and most important thing is ourselves. We haven't finished it yet. This is not coquetry, because collecting five thousand signatures is very difficult, but it is possible, and this is worth recognizing. We made a lot of mistakes at the start of the campaign, which ultimately cost us precious days. We will not make these mistakes in the future.

The second reason is the system we are fighting against. Only crazy people like us can conduct an independent election campaign in modern Russia, and we, the violent ones, are few in number, as Vladimir Semenovich sang.”