ONF in pursuit of Navalny's theme

The All -Russian Popular Front (ONF) will try to more actively cover his own struggle against corruption in order to try to intercept the topic from Alexei Navalny. It will be difficult to do this for a number of reasons, but the leadership of the ONF does not bother.

The fact that ONF leaders will begin to actively attract attention to their fight against corruption, on Thursday wrote "Gazeta.ru". A source of publication close to the leadership of the ONF explained that the “front” will call for active citizens to combat corruption in the framework of its structure, as well as expand explanatory work. The ONF leadership wants their regional leaders to act in the media on this topic more actively, talking about their activities and calling for new activists to work. “We will also think about new training events on this topic. For the work to be more professional, ”said the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru.

The first day of work of the All-Russian Forum-Exhibition "Gosakaz-for honest purchases" ONF

It is interesting that in the leadership of the Front, in any case, in words, they do not oppose anti -corruption rallies, but they set themselves the goal so that people do not go out onto the streets, but use real tools with which to fight corruption can be more effective. “This work is always carried out, but not always actively covered in the media, since often these issues do not tolerate publicity,” the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru explained. As an example, situations are given when revealing the personality of those who report corruption allows you to start a campaign against them in regional media.

Nevertheless, in the ONF they will try to make it so that as many Russians as possible learn about their campaign to combat bribes. “Our main advantage is the possibility of direct contact with journalists and activists and the same direct connection with the presidential administration and our leader Vladimir Putin,” the ONFs are sure.

The next ONF attempt to make his activities to combat corruption more public and popular, apparently, can become part of the Kremlin’s reaction to anti -corruption rallies that took place in many cities of the country on March 26. It is obvious that Navalny’s investigations are covered more vividly and they are interesting to a larger number of citizens - although the opposition policy does not have access to federal television and many other large media, so the main channel for the dissemination of information for it is the Internet.

Anti -corruption rally in Krasnodar March 26, 2017 Nikolai Hizhnyak / Yugopolis

Recall that the struggle with too expensive public procurement was one of the first main priorities of the ONF activities - this direction was just engaged in Navalny before he began to investigate corruption schemes, in which, as he claims, the heads of the state and the largest state corporations were involved. The ONF struggle for the purity of public procurement received good media support - for example, "front -line soldiers" regularly published a rating of the costs of regional authorities to service transport.

But after the Duma elections, the anti -corruption activities of the ONF became less noticeable. At the media forum in St. Petersburg, it was even argued that officials stopped making indicatively expensive purchases. According to the current head of the Front project “For Honest Procurement” Anastasia Mutalenko, luxury items have practically disappeared from the applications of officials, including due to amendments to the legislation initiated by ONF activists. “Icorn for 30 thousand rubles almost disappeared. According to the monitoring, which we conducted at the beginning of the year, the leadership of all 85 subjects of the country listened to the opinion of activists, ”she said.

Alexander Brechalov and Anastasia Mutalenko on the media forum "Pravda and Justice" ONF

Moreover, the ONF leadership believes that it was the “front” who was involved in some criminal cases against governors who have recently been instituted.

Earlier, we recall, the press wrote about disputes that unfold around the ONF in the context of the upcoming presidential campaign. So far, Vladimir Putin did not even say unequivocally whether he will nominate his candidacy or not, so it is all the more unknown whether he will go to the elections from “United Russia” or will be more likely to rely on the ONF structure.