I met some people from Yabloko, one of the Russian opposition parties, in the autumn. One of them is trying to get elected to St Petersburg Council. Assuming, of course, the post-Soviet bureaucracy ever accepts her nomination papers:
"I came to the election committee of my municipalty. I was the only one who came to them that day so they were talkative and rather welcome. They enjoyed showing me endless list of docs needed for registration (application form, special form filled with all my property, including bank accounts, and income for 2007, copy of the passport, copy of diploma, special doc prooving my present occupation, copy of work book, doc proving my income in 2007 from companies i was working for, proof from my bank that i have a bank account there and how much i have on it)
And they were so surprised and sceptical when I promised to come on 5th Jan with all docs (next working day, coz 4th was a day off).
On the 5 January i came to the committee again, with all documents. The secretary (quite old lady) was surprised and said that there is no head of committee today so she can't accept me."
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