Timestamps for yesterday’s broadcast:
0:24 Opening.
0:56 Does every third Muscovite really earn almost 100,000 rubles? Where did Mosgorstat (Moscow’s official statistics agency) get that figure?
1:36❗️Poll: Is your salary above or below 92,000 rubles? Vote on Twitter, VK, and Facebook.
3:50 Moscow through officials’ eyes: food prices are barely rising, and salaries are enormous.
6:19 Alexei, what will happen to officials’ huge salaries?
11:20 “Every time Putin or Medvedev tells you that people are getting richer, remember these 92,000 rubles.”
12:49 The pace of signature collection has slowed. Isn’t it time to release a new “Dimon” (a reference to Navalny’s film about Dmitry Medvedev)?
15:13 A minimum wage of 25,000 rubles: how is that possible?
16:56 “This Putin is a crook and a thief. By the way, buy tickets from this airline!” — Navalny on why he doesn’t run ads on his YouTube channels.
18:45 Animal rights activists are on hunger strike outside the State Duma building: lawmakers have “forgotten” about a bill every Russian agrees with.
21:52 “I’m not calculating my chances — I’m looking at the Constitution,” on being allowed to run in the election.
23:21 Alexei, what should be done about Russian Post?
27:00 How much does Navalny earn?
28:14 “It’s time for us to wrap up”: how Putin responds to questions about his nomination.
29:44❗️Why there is actually no intrigue at all surrounding Putin’s nomination.
33:59 “We’ve seen all this before,” on Putin’s 2012 campaign tales.
36:23 “They made a completely unconstitutional statement that the address to the Federal Assembly would be delivered next year.”
37:39 “The presidential administration is muddying the waters so people talk about hockey players, Medvedev, Kudrin, instead of discussing how badly Putin has failed at running the country over the past several years.”
37:55 Why does Putin say that young people are the country’s future when tuition costs 120,000 rubles a year?
39:39 On paid parking in Moscow.
43:06 Zimbabwe without Mugabe and Russia without Putin: the Mugabe story showed just how “real” his 90% approval rating was.
53:10 Alexei, how will you protect us from the corrupting influence of the West?
53:36 Navalny’s first foreign trip as president of Russia.
54:06 On the tax authorities’ “mistakes.”
56:08 “Mr. Navalny wants to divide society!” — at a meeting with voters in Smolensk, Navalny invited a local crooked United Russia politician onto the stage.
58:15 The authorities’ revenge for Navalny’s successful meetings: a coordinator in Izhevsk was fined 28,000 rubles, and in Volgograd someone was given 15 days in jail.
59:30 Winners of the bloggers’ contest: who will get 1 million rubles.
1:01:37 “Repression against the media is a priority of current state policy.”
