Thread by @navalny

1/21 The sentence will be read in twenty-four hours and I want to say several words before it's read. I just want to put several figures in a context.

2/21 It's going to be a huge term. This is what's called a "Stalinist" term. They asked for 20 years so they will give 18 or something around it. It doesn't really matter, because the terrorism case is on the way. I could get another 10 years there.

3/21 So my first request is. When the figure is announced, please show solidarity with me and other political prisoners by thinking for a minute why such an exemplary huge term is necessary. Its main purpose is to intimidate. You, not me. I'll even say this: you personally, who… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4/21 We live in a country where tens of millions of people right now are against corruption, war, and lawlessness.

5/21 We know for sure that if one in ten of those outraged by the corruption of Putin and his officials took to the streets, the government would fall tomorrow. We know for sure that if those who are against the war took to the streets, they would stop it immediately.

6/21 It's all just wishful thinking. It doesn't work that way. Someone has to be first, and it's scary to be the first. Russia is not an exception. All changes are achieved by 10% of citizens - the most active ones. That is you.

7/21 To repress (imprison, punish, fine) even 10% — that's one and a half million people — is now impossible neither politically nor organizationally. So we need to daze and intimidate them, to discourage them from doing anything.

8/21 This Putin's (in fact any dictator's) strategy works. One example. The main invulnerability of our organization has always been that we have never been cut off from money: we are financed by tens, hundreds of thousands of people in small payments.

9/21 However, by inflating the cases of financing extremism, the authorities have achieved the fact that it has become "a little bit risky" to support our organization from inside Russia, which is 95% of our donors.

10/21 Finances are the basis of activity, you can't get anywhere without them. The intimidation worked perfectly. I remind you, by the way, that here is the link to support us if you are not in Russia: acf.international/en#donate

11/21 To be honest, we always help Putin's strategy of intimidation by throwing hysterics and clutching at our hearts over every arrest. We must not forget about anyone, but at the same time, we must firmly realize that power in Russia has been usurped and illegally seized.

12/21 This should be treated cold-bloodedly. Putin must not achieve his goal. Therefore, my request number two is: when the sentence is announced, please think about only one, really important thought — what else can I personally do to resist?

13/21 The third request is the most important. When answering this question to yourself, please do not dare to say, "Nothing." You surely can. Everyone can do something. Talk to your neighbors, and put up a flyer. Share with others our investigations.

14/21 Send 500 rubles a month to us or other opposition organizations and media. Do a blog. Participate in our The Good Truth Machine 2 project (), and spread awareness on your social media. Support political prisoners. Paint graffiti. Go to a rally.docs.google.com/document/d/1dR…

15/21 There is no shame in choosing the safest way to resist. There is shame in doing nothing. It's shameful to let yourself be intimidated.

16/21 Acknowledgements: 

1.Thank you all, of course. Everything that happens to me is much easier to handle because I feel your support every day and every minute.

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2.Many thanks to this part of common sense in the legal madness called "trial in prison", which will end tomorrow. To my lawyers Olga Mikhailova, Vadim Kobzev @advokatkobzev, Alexander Fedulov and Danya Kholodny's lawyer Svetlana Davydova. They are fighting like lions.

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the defense witnesses: Stupin @advokat_stupin, Kara-Murza @vkaramurza, Roizman @roizmangbn, Chanysheva @LChanysheva, Ostanin, Muratov, Gorinov, Yashin @IlyaYashin, Demchuk, Golikov, Nikolaenko, Popov, Moroz.3.To

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4. Special thanks to my main personal inspiration in this process. It is my accomplice Danya Kholodny, a 25-year-old guy who accidentally got into this meat grinder. The technician of Navalny LIVE channel. Danya had already served a year and a half in jail.

20/21 Unlike me, they took him to the trial in handcuffs. During the investigation, they offered him freedom many times in exchange for testimony against everyone, but he refused.

21/21 Kholodny is in a good mood, cheerful, and doesn't lose his spirit. Most importantly — he understands why this process was invented but doesn't let himself be intimidated and break his will. Be like him.