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Why i am here ?
Probably beacause i care about whats going on in our country.

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Because i want to live in this country and don't want to move away from here.

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want my kids and grandchildren to live here.

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I want it to be a country where everyone could live well and not just a small group of a few wealthy percents.

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I came here today because i support civic initiatives

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and those protest movements that is happening in Moscow right now.

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I think it is very important to be here right now.

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This thing is something very important.

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It is impossible to be anywhere else but here these days if you care for anyone but yourself.

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That's why i am here.

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I was at Bolotnaya square on 6th may, saw what riot police was doing to people over there,

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a lot of people were beaten by the police,

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this includes my friends and a lot of people that i know.

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It was outrageous of course and than this camp was made, and i realised that i should be here.

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Every conscious person should be here and support this movement i think.

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I think everyone who is supporting protest movement of last few months should come here to Occupy Abai camp,

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take city squares, protest peacefully and let government know that people need social reforms

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and let them see that we need serious political changes.

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I take part in this civic protests actions because i don't like how our government works,

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that it ignores me, my rights, needs and the rights, needs and concerns of my relatives and friends.

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I am world war two veteran, i lived a long life, i am 90 years old now. What i am here ?

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I came here to analyze life, to see how powers behave, Putin and Medvedev too,

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his government is criminals i think: they live by the lies, using people's money.

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My kids and grandchilren are coming here today

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and i am very well worried about what kind of future we left after us.

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My disagreement with how Russia threat it's own citizens brought me here today

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and i was at Bolotnaya square after 6th and was part of what some people call civil unrest

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and i think police shouldn't threat people who are trying to voice their opinions like this,

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it is absolutely unacceptable. That's why i am here!

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My desire to change this country for the best brought me here because authorities ignored all past rallies and meetings

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we had over past months and i think that form of protest just isn't working anymore here.

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They don't want to start any kind of dialogue and that is why i came here and going to take an active part in it,

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maybe staying here overnight because im pretty sure a real protest movement can be born out of this.

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People gathered here today to search for a civilized form of protest against current powers.

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I am here because i see how fast Russia becoming a third world country,

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i see that our political regime moving, at the alarming rate,

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towards what we saw in latin america under Pinochet presidency.

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Because i completly share the demands of this winter protest rallys

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and i think we should do something to show our attitude,

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to bring new people into the movement and to achieve the implementation of our demands.

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It is a very good thing because proper society should be about people respecting each other,

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it comes naturally, without any pressure from above, without leaders.

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People gather here not because of one person they like but because they are grown up citizens.

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There is no public places in our country, in Moscow.

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This is an attempt to retake our public space from authorities that doesn't allow us to walk the streets of our city,

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gather together, talk about politics and have discussions between people,

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the possibility to have a dialogue between people and authority is being born here.

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If we are capable to elect our leaders then i think we are capable to take care of our own lives too.

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It's a wonderful thing i think. They were calling us stupid,

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told us that we can't decide for ourself but people proved them wrong.

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People very well understand what's going on in this country, they don't agree with the way things are.

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And since we don't have any means of communication with authority -

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this is the only way to make our voices heard by the people who,as they think, have a right to decide our future.

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It's a way of interaction between people, it's a unique experience of self-organization, self-regulation,

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responsibility, experience of overcoming fears, at some extent, especially at the beginning.

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Even if they make us leave this place, even if this will end someday, i think people will remember all of this.

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It's not going to end here, we will keep gathering and occupy other places.

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I think the most important thing in camp is assembly, it is one of these things that politicize people in a good way.

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These events will be part of these peoples lives and our country history,

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general assembly is the best part of this camp i believe.

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Right now we can only talk about this and nobody really tackle those issues yet,

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we should engage ourself in trying to solve these problems.

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All the best people of Russia, who gather here in camp, should draw a roadmap -

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make a plan of future development of this country.

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We see how people come up with different initiatives,

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we see how they self-organize and i think it's the future of this movement.

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We completely put aside by civil government, we left with no ability to make decisions,

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we don't have autonomy, no accountable power institutions, what we see today is becoming of feudal state.

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I am against it and think a lot of people will agree with me.

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I am feminist and fight for non-patriarchal world, gender equality.

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I want to see a new free society which i am sure will be a version of socialism in its most democratic decision making form.

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I fight for freedom, equality, solidarity, anarchy, a world without governments and bosses.

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I fight for civic society in our country, for democracy.

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I don't want to live in a country of lies but in a real democratic country.

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Greatness of the country is measured by quality of life, individual respect, self-development opportunities -

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it's all very obvious things and not some kind of fantasy.

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Fairness, freedom, equality.

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I think the future is self-organization of people, struggle, adjusting society to that effect.

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I consider power minimization the main aim of this movement

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because what we see right now is concentration of all the power in one hands

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and absolute absence of it in the others.

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Occupy Moscow should spread across nation and become this...

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so people could look into each other eyes and realize that they are not alone,

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on Facebook, and that there is other outraged people in this country.