Thread: Russia on the march - again

(My apologies for my absence, I am currently moving, studying maths for the new University year and the pressure has been high as my lessons commence the 17th and I have yet to paint my studio and assemble the furniture. I have now found the time to translate the article).

Have you received the money?

I saw a text saying that I had to receive $1.5 thousand, but I've never received them.

Where does the money go?

"Mass actions". Look, you see the three phrases here (Ivan points at the screen): payment in advance, spent, over-the-limit spending. The money was given on demand by regional leaders. Here, approximately $11.5 thousand (for a month) were delivered, and over $20 thousand were used, which means that nearly $8.5 thousand was over the limit. Where the money did go is unknown.
In fact their accountant reports are crazy. They write off checks and get reports without knowing what the money goes to. I wrote such papers myself on the accountant's orders.

At the end of each month these accountant papers are delivered in bags to Moscow, into a non-governmental school Irmos, close to the Belorusskaja metro. The Nashi headquarters are located there. The checks and reports are put on a tble and then sorted by hand according to region. Usually it all comes together, but if not, then the regional leaders demand extra money for over-the-limit spending. I was in the school.

After the conversation with Ivan I've studied the site of the school. There was no reference to participation in the Nashi movement, but it was mentioned that the school is the base of the Governmental University - High school of Economics. I called the school. A person picked up and presented himself as the manager.

Can I speak to the director, I am a correspondend of the Vlast magazine?

-Speak about what?

I want to know if the Nashi headquarters are located in your school.

-Then ask Nashi.

They gave me the information, do you confirm it?

-Oh yeah? So what? I won't tell you, he yelled and hung up the phone violently. I dialled the number a few more times, yet no one picked up.

So, those checks, where are they going afterwards?

That is beyond my knowlegde.

Ok. During the last days Vasilij Yakemenko said that he wants to leave the post of the movement, have you heard something about a possible replacement?

Yes, on the Seliger there are elections planned, unusual elections. Yakemenko has to select two regional leaders and give each of them a team. How the teams are formed I don't know. It is known that one of the teams will be directed by the technical director of the Voronezj group Marina Zademidkova. Those teams have to locate a floating island, where a banner is located, and defend it for three hours. The leader of the team that will complete the mission will replace Yakemenko. But who will win, we already know - Marina.

Gazeta, edition of 24th July, MK (25th July), quoting Nashi sources, wrote that it is possible that some unknown Zademidkova will replace Yakemenko. This information was confirmed on numerous Nashist blogs. They wrote that "instead of Vasja there will be Marina". But there were no confirmation on the nature of the elections resembling the "happy starts' (entropy: happy starts were Pioneer competiotions during the USSR).

(entropy: there were election, Marina did not put up her candidature, and three teams competed, one of them won, and now there is a new leader).

Where will Yakemenko head afterwards?

He will be the head of the Federal agency of Youth Politics.

Such an agency will be created as a part of the Ministry of education and science - the ministry itself confirmed it. It is unknow who will be the leader of the agency

What will happen with the movement after 2008? Will it exist?

Yes. Plans are until 2012.

Tell about the near future.

Well, for example, on the parliamentary elections we have plans for the moshing of Just Russia (Ivan used the word "mochit", a vulgar word for squashing, moshing, bashing something, entropy). Nashi will be regional observers during the elections.

How will the moshing happen?

There is an idea of the organization of the "reversed carousel", but it is still in discussion. It goes like this:

First one have to find voters, who agree to vote for money, 150-200 rubel per vote. Those who agree receice a fake bulletin, with Just Russia selected. The voter goes to the election cabinet, throws the fake bulletin in the bin, gets a real bulletin and delivers it to the Nashists. Right before the end of the voting the activists, having collected the real bulletins, mark One Russia in it, go to the election cabinet and throw them into the bins. A few minutes before the end the observers tell the authorities that fraud has been detected. Just Russia becomes guilty.
But the plan is still in discussion, it is unknown who will do it, Nashi or other people.

And the presidential elections?

First, in December there will be an exercise of the March elections. 20.000 thousand activists will be mobilized into Moscow in tent camps on all major plains. They will remain there for two weeks. The activists will live there in shifts, changing three times a day. Every time new ones will be delivered, and those who have lived there already will be brought home. The tents will be set up on Pushkinskaja, Bolotnaja, Manezjnaja, about the Lubjanskaja I can't tell, but I doubt it. The action will be repeated in March.

Why?

Why?!? So that "orange revolutons" would not take place and the plains would not be occupied by oppositionary forces/

Do the Nashi know about such plans by the opposition?

No, of course not, how should the opposition manage to assemble such a force? It is just for safety.

I've talked with Ivan all day. Not everything he told me I considered appropriate for the interview - mostly for his own safety. I gave him money to get home as a goodbye gift. 07.00 next morning he sent me an SMS that he managed to get home successfully, but will live with friends and not home. It's safer.

Gentlemen,

Once again, my deepest apologies for the retardation. I hope that you will find the article interesting. Obviously, not all of it is true, but it can be seen that the Russian government is covering up things. It appears that the freedom of speech will not live long anymore, and I still wonder how free newspapers such as Kommersant manage to survive.

Originally Posted by entropy

No, of course not, how should the opposition manage to assemble such a force? It is just for safety.

www.AKM1917.org Entropy read through the articles. While most of the opposition forces are not ready to come out on the Red Square, otherwise we are more then active, and are demands are certainly legitimate. And while Nashi are much larger then most opposition groups, they are disorganized and many don't truly support Nashi. On the other hand opposition groups (like us) are often smaller but much more organized and disciplined, often like a small army. Putin's bespredel won't last if we all just do something.

Jakarta seals Russian arms deal

Indonesia has already bought four advanced Russian Sukhoi jet fighters [EPA]

Russia has closed a significant military deal with Indonesia, selling Jakarta a package of weapons including helicopters, tanks and submarines worth more than $1bn.



The deal will be signed on Thursday during an historic visit to Indonesia by Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, the first by a Russian head of state in nearly 50 years.


Putin is making a one-day stopover in Indonesia on his way to the summit of leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Sydney.



The arms deal, financed by a 15 year loan from Russia, is Indonesia's first major purchase of military hardware in many years.


The country used to buy most of its weaponry from the United States, but that source was cut in 1999 when Washington imposed a military embargo on Indonesia over human rights abuses in East Timor.



Although the embargo was lifted last year, Indonesian military officials have been looking for other sources of arms to replace their increasingly outdated arsenal and decrease their reliance on the US.



Under the deal, Indonesia will buy two Russian submarines, 20 tanks and 22 helicopters.



Expansion



It also plans to buy six more Sukhoi jet fighters on top of the four planes it has already purchased.



The military denies the purchases represent and expansion of it military force and says the new weapons are not for use in internal conflicts like in Papua for example.



But Al Jazeera's Jakarta correspondent, Step Vassen, says military officials admit that Russia has promised never to impose a military embargo nor interfere in domestic affairs.



"There are still hard feelings about the embargo," Marshall Slamet Prihatinio of Indonesia's defence ministry told Al Jazeera.



"But now the most important thing is that we need to be independent - if we buy military equipment we need to be able to use it, that's our right."



During his visit Putin is also expected to witness agreements on billions of dollars of Russian investment to help Indonesia revamp its aging oil and mining industries.



Indonesian mining company Aneka Tambang will sign a $3bn deal with Russian aluminium giant United Company Rusal, while Indonesia's state-owned oil company Pertamina plans to sign a $1bn agreement with Lukoil, one of Russia's biggest oil companies.

Al Jazeera English - News - Jakarta Seals Russian Arms Deal