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Tetra | 2019 Schionning Arrow 1200

Tetra | Schionning Arrow 1200 39.37ft

Us $398,000.

2019 Schionning Arrow 1200 | Tetra

Location: Phuket, Thailand

Tetra is an Owner’s version fast-sailing catamaran complete with a rotating carbon mast with carbon boom and boasting the attention to detail for which this Asian shipyard is renowned. Carbon daggerboards, front beam and other weight-saving features distinguish Tetra as a lightweight version of Jeff Schionning’s already light and strong catamaran designs.

The catamaran features a flat-panel build with good access into each hull from the saloon, marking a great advance in access for these smaller performance cats. Two large drop-down windows in the front saloon (a la Stealth cats), a huge aft sliding door and good-sized dropdown galley window afford excellent airflow through the saloon for tropical cruising. If the weather turns, close up the windows to be cozy and snug.

Tetra’s sleeping accommodation comprises two generous queen cabins to aft and an extra-large single berth in the starboard bow cabin. There is also additional space in the saloon for extra crew or guests.

Two 70hr 30hp Yanmar diesels hum away in insulated engine bays. Propellers are the renowned Brunton 3-blade folding props on simple shaft drives. On windless days with her range of about 600nm on the fuel tanks means long distance cruising is not an issue.

Her owner has recently installed a new Spectra watermaker, 520amp/hr of Winston lithium batteries and large 1000W solar array, so there is plenty of electrical power available for remote adventures. A choice of gas or induction cooking is also available. Further, a new 12-inch B&G chartplotter at the helm along with a new Halo 20+ radar assists with all your navigation needs. On arrival at a deserted anchorage, a lightweight 3.4m Takacat takes you ashore for beachcombing activities.

Currently lying in the tax-free tropical island of Langkawi in Malaysia, Tetra is a great opportunity to be sailing in a matter of days instead of waiting years for a new build.

Visit the Multihull Solutions website for full inventory and walk-around video, and contact the team for inspections or more information.

Specifications

• Length: 39ft
• Builder: DN Marine
• Beam: 20' 4"
• Draft: 3' 11"
• Hull: Fiberglass
• Status: Active

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• Designer: Jeff Schionning
• Keel: Lifting Keel

MEASUREMENTS

• Length Overall: 39.37 ft
• Max Draft: 3' 11"
• Beam Measure: 20' 4"
• Total Power: 60
• Engine Brand: Yanmar
• Year Built: 2014
• Engine Model: 3YM30AE
• Engine Type: Inboard
• Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
• Engine Hours: 70
• Engine Power: 30 hp
• Fresh Water Tanks: 1 (480 Gallons)
• Fuel Tanks: 1 (480 Gallons)

Accommodations

• Number of heads: 1

Tetra Inventory

Vessel Name – Tetra

Make – Schionning

Model – Arrow 1200

Year – 2019

Length – 12m / 40ft                       

Beam – 6.2m / 20.34ft                  

Draft – 1.2m / 3.93ft

Air Height – 20m / 65.61ft                          

Displacement – 4,000 Kg

Fuel Capacity – 480 L

Water Capacity – 480 L

Hull Material – Duflex balsa core composite with epoxy

Deck Material – Duflex balsa core composite with epoxy – new Antiskid applied March 2024

Keel Type – Carbon fibre Daggerboards

Designer – Jeff Schionning

Builder – DN Marine

HIN – DNM12001B919

Place of Registration – Langkawi, Malaysia

Registration Number – 702245

Registration Expiry – January 2025

Number of Helms & Position – 2 x Composite in aft cockpit

Tax Status & Paid Where – Not Tax Paid

Lying – Phuket, Thailand

Last Antifouling – October 2023

General Notes – Well put together Arrow 1200, 3 dropdown saloon windows, 2 front and 1 for Galley facing aft specked for offshore cruising, Draft boards up, 2.2m boards down

Number of Engines – 2

Engine Make – Yanmar

Engine Model – 3YM30AE

Horsepower – 30 Hp

Engine Year/s – 2014

1st Engine Number – E10347

1st Engine Hours – 70 Hrs

2nd Engine Number – E10348

2nd Engine Hours – 70 Hrs

Last Service – January 2023

Fuel Consumption – 2.5 L / Engine / Hrs at cruise speed

Fuel Type – Diesel

Maximum Speed – 9 Knots

Cruise Speed – 7 Knots

Propellers – Brunton 3 blade folding

Drive Type – Shaft with carbon V brackets, Sigma coupling and PSS shaft seal

Steering System – Great feel with Harken blocks, Dyneema and chain

Notes    Diesel tanks give, 600Nm range at top speed, fuel system has Racor EG500 water separators, set of main engine spares, gaskets

Accommodation

Cabins – 3

Single Berths – 1

Queen Berths – 2

Head Height – 1.92m / 6.29ft in Hulls and 1.89m / 6.20ft in saloon by doors

Notes – Sirocco 12v fans in all cabins and saloon, grey / black teak style foam covering on all floors for comfort

Showers – 1

Heads – 1

Heads Type – Tecma electric

Hot Water Capacity – Electric flow activated water heater can be refitted so giving unlimited hot water

Notes – Spacious 2 volume shower and toilet in port bow, blackwater tank can be fitted in heads

Galley Location – Galley up, SBD facing aft with large dropdown window in main bulkhead

Refrigeration – Alpicool T50 50 L 12v portable refrigerator / freezer

Freezer – As above

Stove – 2 Burner dometic gas top stove, plus 1 x Induction cooktop 2023

Oven – Khind OT23B 1380w 23 L electric toaster oven 2023

Sink – Stainless steel

Notes – Choice of gas or electric cooking available

Electronics

Depth Sounder – Airmar DST810 smart multisensor transducer with Gen2

Log – Raymarine

Autopilot – Raymarine EV100

Wind Instruments – B&G WS310 wired wind sensor and Davis Instruments wind 2023

Radar – Lowrance Halo 20

Chartplotter – B&G Zeus 3S 12″ plotter at port helm 2023

AIS Auto ID System – Simrad NAIS500 AIS Class B transponder Integrated into charts for overlay 2023

GPS – Lowrance Point 1 antenna

VHF – Simrad NSPL-500 antenna splitter and B&G V20S

Stereo – Wet Sounds sound bar, Stealth 10 under saloon couch

Notes – Includes many spares like complete autopilot wheel drive unit, belts, filters, gaskets, O-rings, pumps, switches, anodes, etc, also includes many tools, vacuum, storage bins, new Bushnell 7 x 50 Binos

Battery House – 2 x 260Ah Thunder Sky Winston LiFePO4 batteries 520Ah total 2023

Battery Engine – 2 x 70Amp / Hrs

Battery Charger – Mastervolt Combi 12v / 2000w 100Amp / Hr

Electrical Equipment

Watermaker – Spectra Catalina 340c 53 L / Hrs – 2023

Solar Panels – 10 100w Monocrystalline rigid solar panels 1000w total and 2 Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100 / 50 solar charge controllers 2023

Inverter – Mastervolt Mass Combi 12/2000-100 and 2 x Mastervolt Mac Plus 12/12-50 DC-DC chargers

Alternator – 2 125Amp upgraded

Shore Power – 220v

Notes – 2 Daly Smart external BMS with Bluetooth for solar panels, blue foot level courtesy lights, red for toilet and cockpit for night travel, 6 USB chargers throughout the boat

Sail Inventory

Mast Material – 7 / 8 Carbon rotating wing mast with carbon boom and side wings

Standing Rig Material – Stainless steel dyform with stalok fittings

Standing Rig Age – 2013 not launched until 2020

Age of Sails – 2013 (Never been used)

Main Sails – Quantum Dacron 60.87m2 2013

Headsails – Self tacking furling Jib Harken Quantum Dacron 28.35m2 2013

Screecher / Gennaker – Screecher Quantum 2013 and 1 North sails A0 carbon laminated 97.52m2 2015

Bowsprit – Composite

Furlers – Selden C x 15 Screecher, Harken MK IV furling for jib, Selden G x 15 for A0

Winches – Harken / Andersen 2 Harken self tailing mast, 2 Andersen self tailing Primary, 2 Andersen 2 speed daggerboards

Notes – Harken track / travellers, roller furling black magic blocks, Marlow / Dynastic ropes and Lewmar rope clutches, note build started in 2014 so sails and rigging virtually

Safety Equipment

Bilge Manual – 2

Bilge Electric – 3

Life Jackets – 3

Life Ring – 1

Fire Extinguisher – 2

Notes – 1 Basic first aid kit plus Jacklines on deck

Ground Tackle

Anchor – 1 Rocna Vulcan 20 Kg

Chain / Rope – G4 7mm x 55m

Spare Anchor – 1 Guardian alloy with rode

Windlass – Lofrans Kobra plus chain counter at helm

Deck Gear & Accessories

Tender – Highfield Ultralite 290 tender with Sunbrella tube covers – new February 2024                

Tender Outboard – Suzuki 2.5hp outboard

Deck Wash – Stores in forward anchor locker

Deck Shower – Aft deck

Bimini – Partial cockpit hard top

Enclosures – Partial at the stern of the cockpit

BBQ – Gas lines plumbed in for gas

Mooring Lines / fenders – Various

Notes – Ferrari 492 netting trampolines, cockpit table can slide up to roof when sailing, 2 spare 10 L diesel jerry cans

Miscellaneous

General Remarks – In great shape as little used.

Disclaimer The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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We talk to Robert Quinn of Schionning Design about how their company is navigating Covid-19, their most popular models, and the future of catamaran design. We discuss the Arrow series, G Force, and Waterline / Wilderness designs. Robert tells us why their Arrow series is their most popular and why the Arrow 1200 is the most popular model. He talks about their most common build locations in Australia, Thailand, and South Africa, and their growth plans for the USA market. A big thank you to Robert and Schionning Design for participating in our series of interviews with catamaran designers, builders, and owners.

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Tell us about yourself and how you got involved with Schionning Designs?

Schionning Designs is a family business started by Jeff Schionning, and I’m actually one of the few non-family members. I’m a mechanical engineer and designer by heart. I have an international design award to my name which is lucky enough.

I was born in South Africa but also lived in Australia, and that’s where I met Jeff and Lorriane. I’d worked with Robertson and Caine for Leopard catamarans for a couple years, and then we decided to leave for Sydney.

Then in 2012 I got to know Jeff and Lorraine. And while we didn’t kick things off as a joint venture while I was still there, when I moved back to Cape Town, South Africa, they were very keen to start that office and get things going on this side.

Both of them were born in South Africa, so they have that tie and that’s what led to opening this office.

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So our business is quite different from I suppose the regular. We pride ourselves in allowing people to build boats themselves, so our largest portfolio was owner-builders. Professional building is becoming more and more of a thing these days, and maybe that goes in ebbs and flows.

We typically are dealing with clients who build themselves, so it’s not like we’re running a factory that consistently pushes out X amount of boats. It fluctuates. We have good years. We have bad years.

I would suppose for the last decade, we would have averaged about six a year. Not huge numbers but we are a boutique brand, and we’re ticking different boxes. In the 31 year history, we’ve probably done between 400 and 600.

It’s a difficult number to know. We did business differently a few decades ago, and we sold a lot of plans and to build ideas to people. But we have no idea or kept track of whether they’re actually executed or not.

Some clients get in touch with us afterwards and give us the launch photos or the welcome or some sort of feedback and some don’t. They prefer to stay silent.

That’s the window of of our portfolio.

How involved are you in the build process generally?

We have our professional builders, and they’re usually self-sufficient. When this is a new design, we get more involved with them, and obviously each builder usually has different strengths. So they contact us for different interpretations of the plans and the guidance. Sometimes it’s a roll-out period as well particularly if it’s a custom build because all the variables aren’t dialed out in the beginning, so we’re finessing as the client goes along making his / her choices. We’re always present. We’re always there to be contacted, but it’s not a day-to-day basis.

Then for the owner builders. Well we have had a few repeat clients but for the first timers they start with a big learning curve. They have a lot of questions, so there’s phone calls. I really enjoy that part of the business dealing with the clients and guiding them through that. We all can learn from each other, and sometimes comments are made where it gets very interesting.

I suppose in the last 10 years, I’ve got to know a lot of clients and been intimate with a lot of their builds. Once they go through the first 30 processes, they then become more self-sufficient on like a rinse and repeat kind of recipe. Then we may not hear from them again.

Is there a yard that you find your clients using more often than not and if so where’s that located?

Historically we’ve had our biggest market share in Australia where the company actually started. That was up to 80% of our business, and so Noosa Marine was a very popular build location. They’re on the eastern coast just north of Brisbane.

I suppose over the years we’ve also started working with more international yards. We have a strong yard in Thailand that is producing multiples of our boats. These are all professional builders obviously, so they’re doing the repeats. And then in South Africa as well we have a builder that’s been going for 10 or 11 years. There are other builders in Europe and in America. In South America as well one or two have been built in the past.

But the three would be our most popular (Australia, Thailand and South Africa).

So Covid has affected every business in some sort of way. Tell us about how it’s affected yours?

Logistically it’s been very difficult especially with shipping building materials. We’re a kit based company where we’re producing cutting those files up those materials for clients and then sending them to them and we were offering more and more as we go.

So waiting for raw materials to come in processing them and shipping them out and then dealing with the shipping companies has been a difficult one. Depending on whether they’re allowed to enter the country or not.

But then also when lockdown happened and kids weren’t able to go to school, it kind of halved our time if you will. Because while one parent would be watching the children, you could get some work done and then you switch. So we actually probably doubled our inquiries and business really. So very thankful for that but when you’ve halved your time and doubled your schedule. It becomes very difficult to manage

But like I said a good problem to have and the used boat market went crazy, so we were contacted a lot by used buyers interested in the used boat. But there’s also been the new boat market as well which has been good for us.

Don’t exactly know why, but I think people are seeing them as escape pods.

That has been a common theme that we’ve been hearing. Catamaran business on the rise during Covid.

What is the most popular series that you have right now is it the arrow series.

That’s correct. The Arrow is our newest to the portfolio, and the Arrow 1360 is the most popular by inquiry, but the Arrow 1200 is actually what is the most common to be built.

And it’s no surprise. It’s the more affordable, smaller model in the range, but the speed at which you can build the Arrow versus the others makes it very attractive.

What’s the difference in the the speed to build from the others?

So the Arrow is a purely flat panel construction versus the G-Force and the Solitaire. Then that’s just on the sailing side. There’s power designs as well.

When you have larger cut panels that just bend into shape, it’s a lot quicker than doing several strips into a curvature shape from a construction and from a fairing point of view. So it can save you up to three months just on the construction between the different designs.

Were you involved in the Waterline 1480 design and if so what can you tell us about that design?

I wasn’t involved there. That was before my time. It was very very popular, and we did have to retire that model and some of the older ones as well.

It’s a difficult decision to make, but those were all hand-drawn designs, and we’re now into a modern era of computer-aided design and CNC cutting and all those things. At one point in time, we just had to draw the line and discontinue those sadly.

The Waterline 1480 was a wonderful design because it’s a great live aboard size. It ticked many boxes, and it was quite different to what was out there in terms of being able to build it yourself versus performance and versus features.

How long ago did you have to make that transition and retire it?

It was about four years, maybe five years ago. There are still some people building them, so we continue to help them out and guide them through it.

It just became increasingly more difficult because it’s not all documented in a digital format so with us becoming more of an international business it’s harder to support people from overseas when on that platform.

What’s your biggest challenge in getting people to buy a build plan or kit?

I suppose it’s different for every single client. Location has an influence on that, finding a builder that is close to them. Sometimes clients are very happy to build overseas; sometimes not, and that could be the difference of whether they can afford it or not.

But then there’s also I suppose cash flow issues.

There’s importing issues as well like for example Brazil is always a challenging one because they have such high duty and paperwork for bringing those materials in.

Then some people it’s space. They really want to build it themselves unlike a lot of USA clients, and I suppose location to the shore because they may have acreage on a farm which is a wonderful place to build, but then they deal with the challenge of shipping this big structure down to the ocean.

So everyone’s got their difficulties and sometimes it’s more about their preparation and their plans, so it could be 18 months turn around before a client goes ahead and in that time other variables came in. Like having to renovate the house, so the boat budget moves on. But at least they are now understanding their constraints.

For most of our clients those that have that itch to build their own boat it never really leaves, so we’ll see them down the road.

Tell us a little bit more about your clients. Is there a typical age nationality? Are they mainly couples or families from your experience? What are you seeing?

Typically those that are aged between 40 and 70. Every now and then a young gun comes along. We do get a lot of families interested, but I think that when you’ve got young kids they sort of get in the way from you actually building your project and there’s different priorities.

I suppose our most common client is that person which has owned a few boats before. It’s rare that we get a first time sailor contacting us that they want to build their boat. So those that have gone through that experience of learning what they want onboard. How they sail. Do they like speed? Do they not like speed? When they’ve got that all dialed in, they’re normally contacting us with their request to build.

The Lagoons and Leopards are very popular – nicknamed the condomarans. They’re presenting such a wonderful lifestyle upfront. Our buyers are just looking for a bit more performance, a bit more ability. People eventually work out what they need and what they don’t need and come to some more performance design with less on board.

That makes sense. First-time sailors might buy a Leopard or Lagoon, and then over time evolve to one of your designs.

What do you think is the most important design consideration when building a catamaran.

That’s an interesting question and I suppose I could sum it up by saying “peace of mind” which might be strange, but I think that your comfort, your safety, your performance, and your confidence all tie into peace of mind.

So when we’re designing a boat or it’s being built we’re producing the materials for it, we want to take all those different dynamics into consideration. But at the end of the day if the client has peace of mind and that can be in many forms, it’s going to bring confidence. You’re gonna have peace of mind because you’ve got the safety.

You may not be into performance necessarily, and you don’t need to be sailing faster than what you’re comfortable with, but if you have very little wind and you need to keep moving then you do have the performance.

Or if you need to outrun a storm, and it’s better to outrun the storm then go through the storm, then you have that performance in hand.

And for catamarans it’s a recipe of reefing really at the right time rather than having too much sail area up which can cause some problems. So yeah I’m going to sum that up as “peace of mind” is the most important for us as designers, but also for our clients who are sailing and with a lot of them going through the experience of having their boat built for them.

Be there whatever involvement they have from the whole project or just visits to the professional yard they get that intimacy with their boat. So they understand what’s gone into it. They know how it was put together.

So when you’re out there on your own something fails or is causing concern you know where to look. You know how to problem solve it, and that again is peace of mind.

Where do you see the future of Schionning Design going? Give us some insight into the next 10 years?

We’d like stronger sales in the USA and we don’t exactly know how to solve that problem as yet. There’s a bit of a fear with Americans sending money abroad and maybe that’s a cultural thing. I did spend several years studying in the states, so I do have a feel for for the culture there.

So we would like to get some manufacturer on the state side, so that building feels a bit closer to home – a little bit more organic for them. We do have a couple builds happening. And we’re doing agent negotiations in several parts, so that Americans can talk to Americans. So we’re trying to focus on that and see how that plays out.

We’re also trying to get more into supplying OEM deals and manufacturing more finished products for clients. And that’s something we’ve introduced for the last few years where instead of this daunting project of starting from absolute scratch to finish our OEM deals can help take some of the variables out of play where they can obviously price check it and choose it or or not. At least they’ve got to price the whole project and at least that can come up all up front, and they can get close to working out what this is going to cost time-wise budget-wise. If we can manufacture components for them, it just makes the whole thing easier to bite off.

Great. We wish you the best luck. We would love to see more of your boat designs in America. As we wrap up today’s discussion, how can people learn more about your designs and and purchase a build kit if they would like?

The website is an immediately easy place to go to: www.SchionningDesign.com . We’ve just redone the website and we hope it’s appealing including updated pictures and great links to certain things.

We’ve got strong content on Facebook and Pinterest, and then there’s builder blogs as well.

I think if you just type in “Schionning Designs” into Google a lot will come up.

We appreciate you joining us. Thank you Robert. It was great hearing from you and getting a little more insight from your perspective.

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2019 Schionning Arrow 1200 | Tetra

Tetra is an Owner’s version fast-sailing catamaran complete with a rotating carbon mast with carbon boom and boasting the attention to detail for which this Asian shipyard is renowned. Carbon daggerboards, front beam and other weight-saving features distinguish Tetra as a lightweight version of Jeff Schionning’s already light and strong catamaran designs.

The catamaran features a flat-panel build with good access into each hull from the saloon, marking a great advance in access for these smaller performance cats. Two large drop-down windows in the front saloon (a la Stealth cats), a huge aft sliding door and good-sized dropdown galley window afford excellent airflow through the saloon for tropical cruising. If the weather turns, close up the windows to be cozy and snug.

Tetra’s sleeping accommodation comprises two generous queen cabins to aft and an extra-large single berth in the starboard bow cabin. There is also additional space in the saloon for extra crew or guests.

Two 70hr 30hp Yanmar diesels hum away in insulated engine bays. Propellers are the renowned Brunton 3-blade folding props on simple shaft drives. On windless days with her range of about 600nm on the fuel tanks means long distance cruising is not an issue.

Her owner has recently installed a new Spectra watermaker, 520amp/hr of Winston lithium batteries and large 1000W solar array, so there is plenty of electrical power available for remote adventures. A choice of gas or induction cooking is also available. Further, a new 12-inch B&G chartplotter at the helm along with a new Halo 20+ radar assists with all your navigation needs. On arrival at a deserted anchorage, a lightweight 3.4m Takacat takes you ashore for beachcombing activities.

Currently lying in the tax-free tropical island of Langkawi in Malaysia, Tetra is a great opportunity to be sailing in a matter of days instead of waiting years for a new build.

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The pro-democracy protests rocking Moscow, explained

In July, Moscow election officials banned opposition candidates from running for city council. This weekend, protests swelled to 50,000 in Moscow.

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Tens of thousands of people protested in Moscow on Saturday, marking the fifth weekend people have rallied in the Russian city to demand fair elections.

The demonstrations began in July after election officials barred opposition candidates from running for the Moscow city council, disqualifying their ballots because of what officials claimed were irregularities in the 5,000 signatures each had to gather to run.

That decision — to block the opposition from participating — turned a sleepy municipal election into a political controversy that intensified amid police crackdowns against demonstrators and opposition figures.

Saturday’s rally in Moscow was the largest yet, and one of the biggest political protests in Russia in years. Estimates put the crowds at about 50,000 , although authorities suggested the official number was closer to 20,000. The rally was sanctioned — meaning people had a permit to protest — although police reportedly arrested about 200 people . Russians in other cities, including St. Petersburg, also joined in on the demonstrations, a sign that the unrest and dissatisfaction may extend beyond Moscow.

Moscow’s municipal elections are very much the focus of these protests, but it’s hard to divorce it completely from larger political and economic issues within Russia, specifically President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.

“As with many other protests and uprisings all around the region, they’re much more fluid when it comes to reason, but they’re still emblematic of what is happening with the general dissatisfaction with the state of affairs, in this particular case, the policies of Putin’s administration at the moment,” Maksym Eristavi, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Prague, told me.

The Moscow city council elections are expected to move ahead on September 8, and it seems extraordinarily unlikely that authorities will give in to protesters’ demands and let the opposition stand for the vote. But if the protests continue or continue to spread, the uproar over the municipal elections may be just the beginning.

Opposition leaders followed the onerous rules to get on Moscow’s city council ballot. Election officials still denied them the chance to run.

All 45 seats in the Moscow city council are up for reelection on September 8. The legislative body is controlled by the pro-Kremlin ruling United Russia party. But the party is pretty unpopular right now, so the Moscow United Russia candidates came up with an ingenious plan to run as independents in the city council instead.

A bunch of people actually wanted to run as legit independents — opposition candidates. To do so, they had to meet some pretty onerous requirements, specifically garnering 5,000 signatures each from voters.

But officials on Moscow’s electoral commission invalidated many of the signatures for these opposition candidates, claiming they were faked or had incorrect details; some opposition leaders accused election officials of altering the signatures themselves.

About 30 opposition candidates were initially disqualified from running, and many just happened to be outspoken critics of the Kremlin. In another funny coincidence, none of those United Russia-candidates-turned-independents were disqualified, although critics claimed they didn’t even bother to actually collect signatures or that their applications were barely verified by election officials.

On July 14, about 2,000 protesters — including opposition candidates — rallied outside Moscow’s election headquarters to protest the disqualification of the candidates and to demand a meeting with Moscow’s election commissioner . Dozens were arrested, including some opposition candidates.

The protests continued. On July 20, more than 20,000 protesters met in Moscow to demand the opposition candidates be included on the ballots.

Opposition leader and anti-corruption advocate Alexei Navalny — a major Putin critic who was blocked from running against him for the presidency in 2018 — had called for another protest on July 27 and was promptly arrested on July 24 and sentenced to 30 days in jail for organizing an unauthorized protest. While in prison, he was hospitalized with a severe allergic reaction, with some allies worrying that he might have been poisoned.

Other opposition candidates have since been arrested, including Dmitri Gudkov, who once served as an opposition voice in the state duma (legislature) and has now been sentenced to 30 days in jail for organizing an unauthorized election protest ; and Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition figure arrested for organizing an unauthorized protest after the July 14 rally. Yashin is also calling for Moscow to cancel the September 8 elections.

But the demonstration still went ahead on July 27, where Russian police arrested nearly 1,300 people and reportedly beat back protesters with batons.

A fourth round of protests took place on August 3, with several hundred detained. And on August 10, 50,000 people gathered, including some high-profile Russian celebrities, even though many of the opposition leaders are now jailed. Lyubov Sobol, an opposition candidate who is now on a hunger strike in protest of her exclusion from the Moscow ballot, posted a video on Twitter that appeared to show police barging into her apartment ahead of the protest.

The protest on August 10 — like that on July 20, where 20,000 participated — was sanctioned, meaning protesters had a permit. Brian Taylor, a professor in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, told me that might have made it more likely for people to come out and protest, as the risk of arrest is a bit lower than during those unauthorized protests.

“Even so,” Taylor said, “we do seem to be seeing a ramping up in tension around this rather than a successful repression of protest on the part of authorities so far.”

Eristavi, the senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told me it’s important to keep in mind that people were still detained, but that authorities were careful to avoid arresting people in large numbers, and largely did so away from the cameras.

He described this as part of the Kremlin’s “larger disinformation narrative” to sow confusion. “You’re not acting out as completely authoritarian places like North Korea, or some places that just don’t care about the optics — you have to preserve some kind of a confusion,” Eristavi said. “If I’m abroad, or even I’m somewhere else in Russia, and I’m seeing this, I don’t know what to make of it; it could be worse.”

But beneath the optics, there’s corruption and a skewed justice system and media and internet restrictions. And these bigger issues are what the Moscow protestors may be demonstrating about going forward.

“It started off fairly small, but it’s obviously now mushroomed into something more than just can they stand for election to the municipal council,” Angela Stent, author of Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest , told me. “But it’s a much broader issue of people’s rights, people’s right to vote, to choose who represents them.”

The protests are a powerful statement — but it’s hard to predict what comes next

What prompted the protests in Moscow is very much authoritarianism 101: the government using all the tools available to sideline and stamp out the opposition.

“Wherever the opposition goes right now, they’re meeting what we might consider soft repression, manipulation,” Taylor said. At first, election officials tried to ban the Moscow candidates from the local elections; when that didn’t work, authorities started arresting those opposition leaders and protesters.

The question is why they would go to such lengths. It would seem that letting a few opposition candidates into the Moscow city council to debate budgets and discuss trash pickup might not be much of a threat to Putin’s regime. Voter turnout tends to be pretty low for local elections, anyway.

But that’s not how the Kremlin is looking at it — or dealing with it.

“In the past, you might have expected, even this time, the Kremlin to say, ‘okay fine, a couple of people can run,’ and then just figure out a way to manipulate the ballot so that they don’t actually win, even if they do win — or if they win, then figure out some excuse to have them removed,” Evelyn Farkas, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 2012 to 2015, told me.

But instead, Moscow basically dug in. And the opposition, this time, responded in kind. “‘The Kremlin is digging in its heels, so let’s test it,’” Farkas said.

Moscow, of course, is a major city, with more than 12 million residents, so Putin’s regime is going to be particularly attuned to what’s going on in the city. And Putin may have particular reasons to be a little sensitive these days.

Putin and the ruling United Russia party have been slipping in popularity as more Russians become disillusioned with the state of the Russian economy, including rising inequality and falling incomes. Declining oil prices and sanctions have squeezed the Kremlin, and the government had to push through unpopular measures last year, including increasing the retirement age.

Though Russian media is tightly controlled, citizens are also starting to express frustration about Russian government corruption and mismanagement and the country’s increasing isolation in the world. And many, especially younger generations, have basically known no other leader but Putin. They’re beginning to wonder about Russia’s political future when Putin’s term is up in 2024 . Many are unsure about what will happen after —or if there will actually be an after.

“I think a lot of this is about the future of the country, and are these young people now, if you’re 30-years-old, are you going to continue to have to live under a system like this, where you really don’t have a lot of political choices and where the economy isn’t doing so well?” Stent said.

Stent and others pointed out that the protests are being led by young people, similar to the protests that have rocked Hong Kong for weeks . And while there are definitely visible opposition figures, they’re both largely leaderless and rely on grassroots organizing — making them more fluid and spontaneous, and maybe just a bit harder for authorities to squash fully.

Putin, meanwhile, has accused Western democracies, specifically the United States , of meddling and fomenting the unrest — a talking point that he’s famously used before .

Putin’s problems are likely closer to home, although it’s far too early to say what these protests will accomplish — and what it means for Russia. Experts pointed out that this weekend saw other cities join in protests, including St. Petersburg, where about 80 or so people were detained . If that continues, that’s a sign that discontent might be more widespread.

But few thought Moscow’s protests were a legitimate threat to Putin’s regime, at least in their current form. The government has been able to keep the opposition off the ballot and to largely deal with the protests through arrests. And Putin has faced politics protests in the past, notably in 2011, 2012, and 2013 over the electoral system, all of which faded without much changing.

“We shouldn’t assume the days of the Putin regime are numbered,” Stent said. “We’re not there yet.”

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New era begins at Moscow City Hall

Monday’s Moscow City Council meeting ushered in a new era as three new city councilmembers, a new city supervisor and new mayor were sworn into office.

Mayor Art Bettge took the oath of office, Julia Parker, Hailey Lewis and Gina Taruscio were sworn onto City Council and Bill Belknap took his position as the new city supervisor.

Much of the meeting was devoted to sharing kind words for outgoing mayor Bill Lambert, outgoing city supervisor Gary Riedner and outgoing city council member Brandy Sullivan.

Riedner is leaving after 26 years.

“Gary embodies the complex multifaceted character trait of understanding,” city attorney Mia Bautista said.

Deputy city supervisor Tyler Palmer said Riedner practiced “selfless service” and his work to oversee Moscow’s city services affected every citizen.

Deputy city supervisor Jen Pfiffner said Riedner has worked through every hard decision with an empathetic approach and is a “living example of ethical management.”

Riedner then took to the podium to share his brief remarks.

“I don’t know who you folks were describing tonight,” he joked. “He sounds like a heck of a guy.”

Riedner thanked city staff for doing their jobs with the “heart of a servant” and said he was grateful to work with the mayor, council and the community.

“The community means a lot to me,” he said.

As a parting gift, he was allowed to keep a wooden duck decoy that was part of Moscow’s public art collection and on Riedner’s wall since 2004.

As Lambert gave his final remarks, he thanked the 170 people who work for the city as well as the many who volunteer on the city’s commissions.

“That’s what makes our city great is the volunteerism,” he said.

He credited the council for being steadfast in their actions, including when it came to making decisions in response to COVID-19. He said they did what they thought was right for the community and did not let politics interfere with their decision making.

Lambert has served the city of Moscow for 21 years as a member of the planning and zoning commission, board of adjustment, city council and as mayor.

“I never took it for granted ever,” he said.

As Parker, Lewis and Taruscio were sworn in, it began what is likely the first term in Moscow’s history with a council of all women.

Sullivan chose not to run for re-election this year and former council member Bettge now takes his post as mayor.

Sullivan thanked residents for being involved in city government by attending meetings and joining commissions. She credited the council for being respectful of each other and approaching issues with an open mind.

“You all play a big part in why this has been a positive experience for me,” she said.

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