Alexey Navalny calls for a move from ‘trash-talk’ to real politics The politician’s 10-point questionnaire aims to clarify political positions ahead of the 2024 election in Russia

The imprisoned opposition politician Alexey Navalny has published a 10-point questionnaire that he believes will clarify the political positions of Russia’s key politicians, public figures, journalists, and influencers with regard to the 2024 presidential election campaign.

Alexey Navalny’s 10-point questionnaire was published today on the politician’s website. Navalny, now serving a 19-year sentence in a penal colony, writes that the idea for the questionnaire came to him in response to the heated public debates about strategy for the upcoming election. The politician says that all key players in Russia’s opposition politics should state their position on the 10 questions he outlined, so as to clarify what voters and campaigners alike can expect of them during the upcoming election cycle.

Navalny’s 10 questions

1. Is the election important to you?
2. Do you have a clear strategy?
3. Do you allow the possibility of boycotting the election under certain circumstances?
4. Do you allow voting for any candidate except Putin as a strategy?
5. Do you allow the possibility of appointing a single opposition candidate and consolidating all campaign efforts around that candidate?
6. Can one of the following people — Zyuganov, Slutsky, Nechayev, Sobchak, Venediktov, Yavlinsky, Muratov, or Roizman — be that single opposition candidate?
7. What did you do during the 2018 election: vote, boycott, or would you rather not answer?
8. Is online presence alone enough for running a presidential campaign in 2024?
9. Is it permissible to pay for blogger and influencer political advertising as part of the campaign?
10. Are you ready to make full use of your YouTube channel during the election campaign?

Some of these questions imply follow-up questions like “Should one vote if there are only two candidates, Putin and Kadyrov?” or “Should one vote if all the candidates on the ballot support the war with Ukraine?.”