In March, 2004, there will be new elections in Russia – presidential elections. It’s important to say that elections in Russia became a kind of people’s political game; few times a year we are to elect parliament, governor, city mayor, city council, regional council etc. The main intrigue in these elections is an attendance of voters, not a victory of one of the candidates. Presidential elections ‘2004 - the most uncontested and predicted in a history of the newest Russian capitalism. If Yeltsin’s victory in 1996 wasn’t guaranteed (pseudo-communist Gennadiy Zyuganov, of which image our democrats could frighten children, quite could win), and Putin’s victory in the year of 2000 was accompanied by sensational renunciation of a throne of tsar Boris (Yeltsin), and the figure of the former director of FSB (the Federal Security Service, the modern analogue of well known KGB) was still untested, this time it is clear, that authorities have prepared for simulation of national will very and very carefully.

As a matter of fact, presidential elections have already taken place, and they have taken place on December, 7th, 2003, in the day of parliamentary elections on which the ruling party called "United Russia" using enormous administrative and media resources and also the support of Mr. Putin has received the parliamentary and even constitutional majority, so other political parties that received more than 5% of votes can now do nothing because all the bills are presented and adopted by the party in power (they have already published the law which make alterations in the Wood Code, so that Russian woods can be easily privatized by the rich persons). Putin and his toadies has only one competitor, the enemy and the contender – the absence of voters. Putin is afraid of boycott of the elections.

December has shown, that in spite of polit-technologists’ and officials’ effort apathetic moods operate the people. The most conscious have already understood that elections are a washing of brains, that it’s not a democratic procedure, it’s a farce, a show, a spectacle creating visibility of legitimacy of authority’s lawlessnesses. Many people won’t vote because they know that all will be solved without them and instead of them, the establishment will win in any way. They realized that the authority exists only for itself. Really, what sense to vote if the present governor practically does not differ from previous one and, most likely, will not differ from the following?! All these brezhnevs, gorbachevs, yeltsins and putins – one bureaucratic rubbish anxious with own privileges and preservation of authority in the hands.

There are no alternatives. All our serious political parties that like calling themselves “The Opposition”: the Communist Party of G. Zyuganov, the “Motherland” block (social-chauvinists), the Union of Right Forses (bourgeois democrats) and the LDPR (national-populists) – showed their weakness again. Pseudo-communists nominate the reduced copy of Mr. Zyuganov KGBist Nikolay Kharitonov. Democrats which shouted at every corner about nazi regime in Russia and promised to boycott the elections nominated one of their leaders Irina Khakamada. It was necessary to presidential administration to whisper to these gallant oppositionists that the Chief can become angry with all consequences following from it, as they, having begun to wag tails, applications have rushed to submit to the Central Electoral Committee. Well, you can't change them…

To vote for these candidates or against everyone, means to choose Mr. Putin and there the following elections may not take place, and if will take place, it already will be absolutely other country. To boycott elections, i.e. to not go to vote, means to strike on presidential absolutism and pseudo-democracy and to show, at last, that in this state oppressed and used as raw material, servants, slaves people still something can, and an open arbitrariness of authorities will not pass. In other words, when slaves wait, that will drop out - heads or tails, it is necessary to compress only will in a fist and to try, that the coin has fallen an edge.

As against lines of so-called "oppositionists" we support boycott of elections not because we do not like the present president or we consider, that the Central Electoral Commission has illegally given up in registration to any good candidate, having made elections predetermined. We oppose institute of presidency basically. We oppose this electoral system not because of it’s full of defects and contradictions. We think that all representative "democracy" in general is only pity and pale parody to original democracy as which we understand Direct Democracy and Self-government.

BOYCOTT TO THE ELECTIONS! NO PASARAN!