Timestamps for yesterday’s episode, “Navalny at 20:18”:
0:45 Alexei Navalny: “I want to start with a naked woman.”
3:49 “Here is that very church—if this structure can even be called that—which the young woman Ksenia Kalugina ‘desecrated.’”
6:03 “Probably the biggest scandal and the main issue on the agenda of ‘offended Russia’ is, of course, the film Matilda.”
7:32 “And at the same time, on Red Square in central Moscow lies the body of the man who gave the order to execute that very tsar whom Natalya Poklonskaya is so zealously ‘protecting.’”
8:41 Russia’s Investigative Committee filed charges against the coordinator of Navalny’s Volgograd headquarters over a collage featuring the “The Motherland Calls” monument. More details: http://www.mk.ru/social/2017/07/26/sk-predyavil-obvinenie-glave-volgogradskogo-shtaba-navalnogo-izza-kollazha-rodinamat.html
9:50 During landscaping work at Mamayev Kurgan, the Park of Stalingrad Widows was cut down. More details: http://www.rbc.ru/society/27/07/2017/5979b2989a794769e2bb2bc1
11:55 In Oryol, so much money was stolen during the restoration of churches—and somehow nobody is offended.
12:20 How do we fight real anti-scientific obscurantism?
13:40 What do you think about banning Jehovah’s Witnesses and designating them an extremist religious group?
14:47 Saakashvili was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship by a decree from Poroshenko. More details: https://ria.ru/world/20170726/1499218847.html
15:33 “I had actually planned to talk today about Demyan Kudryavtsev, who was stripped of Russian citizenship.”
17:52 “And now they just went ahead and stripped him of [Ukrainian citizenship]—it’s obvious why: they kicked a political opponent out of the country. Fine then. And tomorrow Putin will strip me of Russian citizenship.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJa3Gd2oHw&t=1218s)
20:18 Alexei, could you talk about Nikita Belykh’s case?
21:06 The U.S. House of Representatives approved new sanctions against Russia. More details: https://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/2017/07/26/133833-palata-predstaviteley-v-ssha-odobrila-novye-sanktsii-protiv-rossii
24:20 “The biggest concern is that these sanctions will deal a massive blow to the country.”
26:05 Alexei, could you sum up your debate with Strelkov?
28:50 “An extremely important topic is Yevgeny Roizman and his decision not to take part in the election in Yekaterinburg.”
29:14 Yevgeny Roizman: “I’m not going to change my mind. These are not elections; they’re complete bullshit, a shell game run by con artists. And people should not go to these elections.”
31:33 Sergei Boyko, a candidate for the Novosibirsk Region Legislative Assembly: “The regional authorities do not want a candidate who criticizes the actions of those very authorities.”
35:07 “In Russia, all of this still exists quite comfortably because there are no courts, no parliamentary oversight. There is nothing,” Alexei Navalny says about secret FSB prisons.
38:20 “Look at what happened in the wonderful city of St. Petersburg,” Alexei Navalny says about passengers being forced to stand in enormous metro lines supposedly as part of anti-terrorism measures.
39:42 Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova: “The European Court today does not correspond to our understanding of justice.”
41:00 “Please take a look at the chart of Russian complaints.”
43:05 “Right now they’re turning YouTube into something like television,” says blogger Kamikadze D about YouTube’s Russian office.
47:13 “There are 1,000 bots. They all unsubscribe from our channel at the same time when a new video comes out. YouTube decides the video must be terrible and doesn’t let it gain traction in promotion.”
50:00 Alexei, you are absolutely right about boycotting these pseudo-elections.
51:55 Excerpts from the debate between Vladimir Milov and Andrei Movchan.
54:40 “I’m very glad that the entire debate agenda revolves around our platform.”
58:04 About minimum wages in different countries.
59:40 What percentage of spoiled ballots would be enough to derail the election?
1:01:45 “I believe that, out of these bad strategies, the best one is the most active possible boycott, combined with persuading people not to go to the polls.”
