Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 24.01.2018

Vladimir Putin’s policy has exhausted its positive potential, if such has ever been there. This policy led the country to a war with its closest neighbour and isolation. Putin’s policy is leading the country into a deadlock. The policy must be changed. The institution of presidential elections, which has survived though formally, is the only influential instrument in the Russian political system, which we can justly call an authoritarian or a hybrid totalitarian system. This is, in fact, is the only opportunity for us to speak up, now once in six years on all these burning issues. That is why the presidential campaign was made so short [for about two months], so that no one would speculate or deliberate about anything, so that no one would have time to realize all this. And the forthcoming elections represent rather a referendum around a very important question: do you approve of the policies conducted for the last 15 years? Approve or disapprove? Yes or no? That’s what the presidential elections are about.

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