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pe, Russia agreed that foreign and domestic electi on observers enhance the electoral process. The So viet Union also signed a series of agreements on h uman rights that it ignored. Mrs. Clinton and the White House did the right thi ng on Thursday by repeating their criticisms of th e vote. She also expressed support for the “rights and aspirations” of the Russian people. They will need to keep speaking out; government opponents p lan another protest for Saturday. ~~~~~~~~~~ <strong>NYT</strong>-1209: OP-ED A United Russia? Far From It ... By VALERY PANYUSHK IN Strategies to protest what are viewed as skewed pa rliamentary elections: a cartoon pig and a vote fo r any party but Putin's. ===== notyet Moscow A FEW months before this week’s parliamentary elec tions, around 10 of us gathered in a small room at the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, a p lace meant to honor freedom of thought, a place th at no one visits. Boris Nemtsov was there, a former deputy prime min ister whose opposition party was one of the many e xcluded from the elections. And so was Viktor Shen derovich, who hosted a popular satirical TV show a nd now performs only rarely in tiny clubs. There w ere entrepreneurs with no business opportunities a nd lawyers kept from the courtroom. And then there was me: a disenchanted former political reporter. During the many years of Vladimir V. Putin’s rule, we lost our jobs and so much more. So our luckles s gang had met to ponder what to do about the comi ng elections, all too aware that nothing could be done about them.
This is how parliamentary elections work in Russia : Mr. Putin’s party, United Russia, faces off agai nst collaborating parties — which would never dare to criticize him. And the real opposition parties are banned. But one cannot simply vote against ev ery party involved. Nor is there any use in boycot ting, because the election would be considered leg itimate even if no one but the prime minister and president showed up. The only solution, we decided, was irreverent prot est. And so we came up with a cartoon pig called N ah-Nah, a name that, in Russian, evokes an unprint able version of “get lost!” — an expletive for wha t we’d like to say to those in power. We made post ers and animated cartoons depicting Nah-Nah at the polls, destroying the ballot. He would check the box for every party running and draw an X across t he ballot. He would do this not in hopes of changi ng anything, but to illustrate how nauseating thes e pretend elections are. We posted them online and called on real voters to follow Nah-Nah’s lead. M ostly, we wanted to laugh and misbehave a little, even as United Russia kept its throne. At the same time, a young activist and very well-k nown blogger, Aleksei Navalny, offered a different protest strategy for the elections. He proposed v oting for any of the collaborating parties in orde r to avoid casting a vote for United Russia — for the Communists, for A Just Russia, for Yabloko. These two protests — Nah-Nah and Navalny — gained attention, and for the first time in the history o f the anti-Putin movement, there was a real debate about methods, a conversation with substance and without enmity, taking place on the Internet, in c afes, in Moscow and the suburbs. Mr. Navalny’s supporters argued that destroying th e ballot would simply split the anti-Putin vote, g
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