Timestamps for yesterday’s show, for those who want to know right away what was in it.
00:26 In the studio: Alexei Navalny, or “Power with approval ratings of 1, 2, and 3 percent.”
02:54 A multi-step gambit: what happened on the opening day of the World Cup, besides the Russian national team’s victory.
05:36 Tiramisu and borscht in the special detention center.
11:34 ❗️The most expensive championship.
16:23 A 45,000-seat stadium in Saransk for handing out money from a helicopter.
21:24 “Weekend with RosYama,” the detention of an LGBT activist, and 15 days in jail for a one-person protest.
24:00 ❗️That’ll be 4,000 rubles.
24:20 How Medvedev wants to compensate us for the VAT increase.
26:25 600 billion rubles a year and rising inflation: “Poor citizens will pay more.”
33:07 ❗️We’ll die before retirement: the harshest scenario for raising the retirement age has been chosen.
35:22 Putin on raising the retirement age: “As long as I am president, this will not happen.”
40:18 Legalized genocide by the government: “A 55-year-old woman in Russia will never find a job.”
47:45 A birthday party or a literary salon in the special detention center. “It’s a great exercise—to be under arrest once.”
50:08 When will Oleg Navalny be released?
50:55 ❗️Arkady Babchenko.
52:08 The moment of Arkady Babchenko’s “resurrection.”
57:48 A master class in organizing a crime from Alexei Navalny.
1:00:56 “When will the democrats unite?” Yabloko’s (a Russian liberal political party) ridiculous primaries.
1:08:35 “I support Oleg Sentsov’s hunger strike; he must be released immediately! He is dying, and we must all demand the release of him and other political prisoners.”