Oh, you really should watch Deputy Rashkin’s speech in the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament):
It would be great to share it widely too—it will work brilliantly even on the most hardline patriots (“vatniks,” a derogatory term for jingoistic pro-Kremlin types). Rashkin mentions Donbas a couple of times and all that, but overall he tells it like it is in a blunt, plainspoken popular style.
He’s genuinely excellent. This is what the State Duma should look like.
About the fur-coat storage rooms, about the salaries of Sechin, Miller, and Yakunin—which, let me remind you, have effectively been made a state secret here: Sechin not only refuses to publish his income data, but also uses corrupt courts to bar the media from writing about it.
Take note: at 2:20, Rashkin talks about the need to ratify Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption and about illicit enrichment. In other words, exactly what we are campaigning for. This once again shows how many allies we have on this issue. We need to collect 100,000 votes as soon as possible to support any legislative work on this topic. Vote, don’t put it off.
And let’s spread the video around—no one can say of a speaker like this that he’s some pro-Western, hipsterish “Ukro-American.” This is the real salt of the earth: the Saratov regional party committee and all that.
Naryshkin’s reaction (from 9:20 onward) deserves special attention—he practically started squirming like an eel when talking about deputies’ foreign assets. Yet another argument for sharing the clip.