I have always been in favor of boycotting any elections in Russia, and I'm glad that until the supporters of Navalny and before him it finally came. But it reached exactly at the moment when it touched directly the Naval. Previously, he seemed to pretend that he did not notice that all elections in Russia were a farce, a spectacle organized by the Kremlin. And any participation in it is just an actor's role in someone else's play, writes journalist Aider Muzhdabaev on the Observer.

The power of everyone, including Navalny himself, and other Russians who participated in various fake elections earlier, showed: "Know your place, the elections are played only according to the rules that we establish".

Therefore, I believe that in principle in Russia under the current regime there can be no elections. All these elections are just a decoration, an absolute farce. And the sooner and the more people in Russia this will understand and begin to protest in any other forms, the faster the regime will change in Russia. It can not be changed through elections, it became clear. Some of the most stubborn Russian liberals who are afraid of upheavals, as they say, want to give some kind of guarantees to Putin, his entourage. But it will not work. Moska can not give guarantees to the elephant. While Putin's regime is strong as an elephant, and Moska around him only dances.

When masses of people take to the streets and protest against Putin across Russia and, most importantly, in Moscow, only then this call can influence. And, of course, this should happen under some pressure from the West, or under sanctions and so on. There are no other options for changing the regime in Russia.