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led, exploded into violence or made history. At a final coordinating meeting for the protest on Frid ay evening, where a roomful of veteran organizers were shouting to make themselves heard, a young en vironmental activist turned toward the crowd, sudd enly grave. “I’d like to thank Aleksei Navalny,” she said. “Th anks to him, specifically because of the efforts o f this concrete person, tomorrow thousands of peop le will come out to the square. It was he who unit ed us with the idea: all against ‘the Party of Swi ndlers and Thieves,’ ” the name Mr. Navalny coined to refer to Vladimir V. Putin’s political party, United Russia. A week ago, Mr. Navalny, 35, was famous mainly wit hin the narrow context of Russia’s blogosphere. Bu t after last Sunday’s parliamentary elections, he channeled accumulated anger over reported violatio ns into street politics, calling out to “nationali sts, liberals, leftists, greens, vegetarians, Mart ians” via his Twitter feed (135,750 followers) and his blog (61,184) to protest. If Saturday’s protest is as large as its organizer s expect — the city has granted a permit for 30,00 0 — Mr. Navalny will be credited for mobilizing a generation of young Russians through social media, a leap much like the one that spawned Occupy Wall Street and youth uprisings across Europe this year. The full measure of Mr. Navalny’s charisma became clear after protests on Monday night; an estimated 5,000 people materialized, making it the largest anti-Kremlin demonstration in recent memory, and M r. Navalny was arrested on charges of resisting th e police and sentenced to 15 days in prison. All that night, as temperatures dipped below freez ing, Mr. Navalny’s disciples stood vigil outside t he precinct where he was being held, their eyes on
their Twitter feeds. Someone had spread a rumor t hat he was dead, and even his lawyers were unsure of his whereabouts, adding to the sense that Mr. N avalny — who has been reluctant to present himself as a political leader — was at the center of ever ything that was happening. “He is the only man who can take all the common hi psters and make them go onto the street,” said Ant on Nikolayev, 35, who spent much of Tuesday outsid e courtrooms hoping to see Mr. Navalny. “He is a f igure who could beat Putin if he was allowed.” This assertion may sound far-fetched. Mr. Putin, n ow in his 12th year as the paramount leader, has a pproval ratings of above 60 percent, according to the independent Levada Center. As recently as two weeks ago, Levada found that 60 percent of Russian s surveyed were not willing to consider any figure from the anti-Putin opposition as a presidential candidate. Only 1 percent named Mr. Navalny, whose exposure is through Twitter and his blogs, Navaln y.ru and Rospil.info. But the aftermath of last Sunday’s parliamentary e lections has shaken political assumptions, largely because the authorities seem unable to regain con trol of the public discourse. For a decade, Russia ’s political agenda has been determined inside the Kremlin, where strategists selected and promulgat ed themes for public discussion, said Konstantin R emchukov, editor of the daily newspaper Nezavisima ya Gazeta. “And now, just a few days after the elections, the political agenda is being determined by other peo ple,” like the longtime opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov and Mr. Navalny, he said. “This is shocki ng, and totally unpredictable.” MR. NAVALNY has Nordic good looks, a caustic sense of humor and no political organization.
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