Why i am here ? Probably beacause i care about whats going on in our country.
Because i want to live in this country and don't want to move away from here.
want my kids and grandchildren to live here.
I want it to be a country where everyone could live well and not just a small group of a few wealthy percents.
I came here today because i support civic initiatives
and those protest movements that is happening in Moscow right now.
I think it is very important to be here right now.
This thing is something very important.
It is impossible to be anywhere else but here these days if you care for anyone but yourself.
That's why i am here.
I was at Bolotnaya square on 6th may, saw what riot police was doing to people over there,
a lot of people were beaten by the police,
this includes my friends and a lot of people that i know.
It was outrageous of course and than this camp was made, and i realised that i should be here.
Every conscious person should be here and support this movement i think.
I think everyone who is supporting protest movement of last few months should come here to Occupy Abai camp,
take city squares, protest peacefully and let government know that people need social reforms
and let them see that we need serious political changes.
I take part in this civic protests actions because i don't like how our government works,
that it ignores me, my rights, needs and the rights, needs and concerns of my relatives and friends.
I am world war two veteran, i lived a long life, i am 90 years old now. What i am here ?
I came here to analyze life, to see how powers behave, Putin and Medvedev too,
his government is criminals i think: they live by the lies, using people's money.
My kids and grandchilren are coming here today
and i am very well worried about what kind of future we left after us.
My disagreement with how Russia threat it's own citizens brought me here today
and i was at Bolotnaya square after 6th and was part of what some people call civil unrest
and i think police shouldn't threat people who are trying to voice their opinions like this,
it is absolutely unacceptable. That's why i am here!
My desire to change this country for the best brought me here because authorities ignored all past rallies and meetings
we had over past months and i think that form of protest just isn't working anymore here.
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,
maybe staying here overnight because im pretty sure a real protest movement can be born out of this.
People gathered here today to search for a civilized form of protest against current powers.
I am here because i see how fast Russia becoming a third world country,
i see that our political regime moving, at the alarming rate,
towards what we saw in latin america under Pinochet presidency.
Because i completly share the demands of this winter protest rallys
and i think we should do something to show our attitude,
to bring new people into the movement and to achieve the implementation of our demands.
It is a very good thing because proper society should be about people respecting each other,
it comes naturally, without any pressure from above, without leaders.
People gather here not because of one person they like but because they are grown up citizens.
There is no public places in our country, in Moscow.
This is an attempt to retake our public space from authorities that doesn't allow us to walk the streets of our city,
gather together, talk about politics and have discussions between people,
the possibility to have a dialogue between people and authority is being born here.
If we are capable to elect our leaders then i think we are capable to take care of our own lives too.
It's a wonderful thing i think. They were calling us stupid,
told us that we can't decide for ourself but people proved them wrong.
People very well understand what's going on in this country, they don't agree with the way things are.
And since we don't have any means of communication with authority -
this is the only way to make our voices heard by the people who,as they think, have a right to decide our future.
It's a way of interaction between people, it's a unique experience of self-organization, self-regulation,
responsibility, experience of overcoming fears, at some extent, especially at the beginning.
Even if they make us leave this place, even if this will end someday, i think people will remember all of this.
It's not going to end here, we will keep gathering and occupy other places.
I think the most important thing in camp is assembly, it is one of these things that politicize people in a good way.
These events will be part of these peoples lives and our country history,
general assembly is the best part of this camp i believe.
Right now we can only talk about this and nobody really tackle those issues yet,
we should engage ourself in trying to solve these problems.
All the best people of Russia, who gather here in camp, should draw a roadmap -
make a plan of future development of this country.
We see how people come up with different initiatives,
we see how they self-organize and i think it's the future of this movement.
We completely put aside by civil government, we left with no ability to make decisions,
we don't have autonomy, no accountable power institutions, what we see today is becoming of feudal state.
I am against it and think a lot of people will agree with me.
I am feminist and fight for non-patriarchal world, gender equality.
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.
I fight for freedom, equality, solidarity, anarchy, a world without governments and bosses.
I fight for civic society in our country, for democracy.
I don't want to live in a country of lies but in a real democratic country.
Greatness of the country is measured by quality of life, individual respect, self-development opportunities -
it's all very obvious things and not some kind of fantasy.
Fairness, freedom, equality.
I think the future is self-organization of people, struggle, adjusting society to that effect.
I consider power minimization the main aim of this movement
because what we see right now is concentration of all the power in one hands
and absolute absence of it in the others.
Occupy Moscow should spread across nation and become this...
so people could look into each other eyes and realize that they are not alone,
on Facebook, and that there is other outraged people in this country.