Our guess, voiced in yesterday’s “Navalny at 20:18”, turned out to be correct. Alisher Usmanov recorded his address, “You’ll Answer for This, While I Bought a Boat and Live in Happiness,” on that very boat — the Dilbar yacht, worth more than 400 million euros.
RBC reports this:
How delightful.
Well, I talked about all of this style — and not just the style, but the substance too — at the beginning of yesterday’s program. Take a look:
Also:
1:07 Beginning
1:29 “The main story of the day, across all the news, is the arrival of a wonderful new video blogger: Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov.”
2:15 🎥 “I have a much, much deeper relationship with the internet than you do. I don’t use it — I develop it,” — the best quotes from billionaire video blogger Alisher Usmanov’s first video. More details: https://navalny.com/p/5380/
5:20 “I watched this video in amazement. Either the 1990s have come back to us, or this is some kind of small parody of the 1990s.”
8:44 “It seems to me that the Kremlin asked Usmanov to do this. And after that, clearly, either PR people or Usmanov himself — who, I think, took it personally — came up with their own version. In essence, it’s an oligarchic manifesto.”
11:57 “You can’t buy a yacht for 400 million euros if you pay your workers 38,000 rubles a month. Because it’s impossible to live on 38,000 rubles.”
12:35 ❓ Do you see Usmanov’s address as a threat?
14:57 “It’s here in Russia that he’s rude to everyone and records videos like this. When he was buying the Arsenal football club, he meekly answered every question from the British media.”
18:35 ❓ Did he serve time for rape or not?
21:04 “The first verdict in the ‘March 26 case’: Yury Kuliy was given 8 months for assaulting an OMON officer (a Russian riot police officer).” More details: https://meduza.io/news/2017/05/18/pervyy-prigovor-po-delu-26-marta-yuriyu-kuliyu-dali-8-mesyatsev-kolonii-za-napadenie-na-omonovtsa23:08 “The question for us is: will we be scared or not? I’m not afraid. Now I want to go to the June 12 rally even more.”
26:24 ❓ Will you be able to help Kuliy?
27:40 “The next topic is the rally against ‘renovation’ (Moscow’s housing demolition and redevelopment program), from which I was removed along with my entire family.”
33:06 “Naturally, Moscow City Hall will continue its attempts to ‘depoliticize’ things — which in practice means making sure the protest does not happen.”
36:10 “The voting is being actively rigged — we can see that,” — Alexei Navalny on the “Active Citizen” service.
39:50 “First, they won’t be enforced. Second, they will damage the economies of both Russia and Ukraine,” — Alexei Navalny on Ukraine’s blocking of Yandex, VKontakte, and Odnoklassniki.
46:50 💬 I live in a Khrushchyovka (a Soviet-era apartment block) and I’m glad they’re being demolished.
51:02 ❓ Might Russian officials, while criticizing the Ukrainian authorities, ease pressure on the internet in our own country?
52:21 ❓ Will the leading propagandists be subjected to lustration after you are elected president?
56:05 ❓ Where will you travel in the near future as part of the presidential campaign?
58:45 About new projects on the “Navalny Live” channel.