Timestamps for yesterday’s livestream, for those too lazy to watch the whole episode, are here:
0:38 The beginning. In the studio: Alexei Navalny — or a whole lineup of factions.
1:56 We raffle off prizes for live-stream donations: Nastya Rybka’s book and turnout clickers for election observers.
2:40 It’s like a TV series: “Cocaine at the embassy, a plane belonging to a former head of the FSB (Russia’s security service) transports that cocaine, then flies to Bangkok for escort girl Nastya Rybka, plus the disappearing and reappearing nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.”
3:40 Grandpa has turned up and is in a fighting mood.
4:30 “For 47 minutes, Vladimir Putin talked about the successes of our defense industry. It’s unimaginable!”
5:34 Vladimir Putin presents his weapons of retribution.
8:02 The real video about Putin’s secret weapons.
9:40 “Please, let our achievements in weapons development be better than our achievements in computer graphics!”
12:00 Putin’s tall tales that people keep falling for.
13:20 Putin announces a contest, and Simonyan immediately rushes in to flatter him.
16:23 “This isn’t an arms race, and it isn’t a Cold War. It’s just nonsense from a man who has wrecked and looted absolutely everything.”
16:58 How can public-sector employees resist being herded to the polls?
18:02 “There will be ballot stuffing for Putin, although he doesn’t really need it. Most of the fraud will be about turnout.” So sign up to be an observer: https://2018.navalny.com/observer/.
18:37 How many observer training courses do you need to take? “This time, monitoring will be easy.”
19:38 The state drug cartel.
21:44 “Maxim Mironov, whose children attend the school at the embassy where the drugs were found, explained everything in detail to the Russian media. The Foreign Ministry denied it all and called him the leader of the Argentine branch of the opposition.”
22:38 The “father of the cocaine scandal” explains how it happened.
25:30 How Russian diplomats tried to explain themselves — and how Argentine police exposed them.
30:10 “They say it would be stupid for officials to engage in cocaine smuggling. But siphoning money out of the tax service, buying homes in Dubai with it, and then killing lawyer Magnitsky, who exposed the scheme — that wasn’t stupid?”
34:50 Rybka is in danger.
36:06 Leslie and Rybka spoke with Kira Yarmysh and described the danger they are in.
36:40 “A sex coach was arrested in Thailand. That already sounds absurd.” The sequence of events in the scandal involving Nastya Rybka, Oleg Deripaska, and Deputy Prime Minister Prikhodko.
39:13 “If you’re discussing Rybka, then please discuss Prikhodko along with her — and discuss Deripaska too.”
40:10 The anniversary of the film He Is Not Dimon to You (Navalny’s anti-corruption documentary about Dmitry Medvedev). A great reason to rewatch it: https://youtu.be/qrwlk7_GF9g.
41:45 How Moscow will vote.
43:10 Which candidate would you vote for if the election were held in the near future?
44:25 “Putin’s rating in Moscow is lower than across Russia as a whole, and Grudinin is ahead of Zhirinovsky.”
45:30 “Let’s imagine that everyone who refused to answer the poll actually voted. How would the votes be distributed?”
46:10 The presidential candidates’ negative ratings.
47:20 Campaigning by the candidates in Moscow.
52:12 Clownery at the presidential debates.
54:10 “Maybe it would have made more sense to draw attention to yourself by criticizing Putin? He’s a candidate. Tell us something about him — for example, how he handed a billion to his son-in-law Kirill Shamalov.”
54:58 How real presidential candidates should conduct debates.
56:35 How one of the candidates assesses his chances in this election.
56:55 “It’s great: run in the election, then tell the whole country that none of us will become president, and then splash some water around. Doing everything possible to play along with Putin.”
57:53 Sobchak’s campaign chief says the most honest words of all: “There is no election — Putin is the next president.”
58:50 Rogozin and the missing nephew.
1:00:10 “In an attempt to hide his nephew, Rogozin cleaned up his Russian-language Twitter account but forgot about the English-language one.”
1:03:32 Who causes suffering.
1:04:01 “What exactly did Kostya Saltykov do to inflict such severe pain that he had to be kept in a cell for a month and then sent to a pretrial detention center?”
1:04:55 “At every protest, these police officers do things for which they should all be imprisoned for life, if this is enough to justify arresting a young man.”
1:05:20 Mikhail Galyashkin, who allegedly sprayed from a canister at a protest, was given a one-year suspended sentence.
1:05:54 Across the country, FSB officers are arresting and torturing left-wing activists.
1:07:25 Results of the donation contest. Winners: Snowblind — 23,000 rubles, PutinVV — 22,024 rubles, KarinaMarch — 13,500 rubles. To claim your prizes, email 2018@navalny.com.
1:08:15 Sign up to be an observer, get the same clicker, and don’t let them falsify turnout: https://2018.navalny.com/observer/.