Victor Shenderovich: Thorn bush

A massive and organized boycott of the elections and the delegitimization of the police regime would bring, in the long run, much more benefit than the "fair Russian" Yandiev, who ended up in a small body of power instead of the "United Russia" Kasamara and several similar replacements around the perimeter

I will not hide: the defeat of Kasamara, Metelsky and a couple of shameless characters gave me emotional pleasure. In this sense, and within this goal-setting (to punch the authorities in the nose), the Smart Voting tactics can be considered successful and accomplished.

But initially, before we knew the name of Casamara, let me remind you, it was about something else: about the return to Russia of real political competition (at least at the grassroots level).
The government did not allow this. She did not allow it in the most unpretentious repressive way.

After the August session of this dense police, after it turned out that the reason for beating and arrest could be your face, which the cop did not like, and the basis for a prison term was a poster with a quote from the Constitution of the Russian Federation, there can be no other agenda, except for stopping political repressions, the release of political prisoners and the resignation of those responsible for police brutality.

I wrote about this in the last three weeks before the elections, shifting the focus from the arithmetic games around September 8 to a new, real agenda. That is why I believed and continue to believe that a massive and organized boycott of the elections and the delegitimization of the police regime would bring, in the long term, much more benefit than the just Russian Yandiev, who ended up in a small body of power instead of United Russia Kasamara and several similar replacements around the perimeter.

It's good if similar! — in a number of districts, to spite Putin, we were asked to vote for the Zyuganovites and Zhirinovites. (A deadly danger to power, huh. "Don't throw me into the thorn bush").

Well then. Now that we solemnly threw them into this thorn bush, we have a happy opportunity to observe the extent of the damage inflicted on the enemy. And compare feelings.

In the meantime, Sobyanin, all in white, has already managed to congratulate Muscovites on the completion of the elections to the Moscow City Duma - "the most emotional and competitive in recent history."
We had elections, you hear? Well, what do you want now?

After the Duma falsifications of 2011, “consciousness of one’s own iniquity” forced the authorities to hide under the plinth. They crawled out from under the plinth with riot police. This time, OMON as the main argument for Russian democracy appeared before the elections. Now they are celebrating legitimacy as if nothing had happened - and not to say that Moscow streets are crowded from our pickets and demonstrations ...
And some of the best guys from the younger generation are in prison.

Such is the landscape after this battle.
I want us to remember this as we celebrate Kasamara's defeat.

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