All of this is covered in the latest episode of my show; below are the timestamps for those too lazy to watch the whole thing.
0:41 In the studio: Alexei Navalny, or “the man who will stop at nothing.”
2:23 🎥 A typical question for Putin.
2:46 ❗️ Putin responded, but didn’t actually answer.
6:25 🎥 How our correspondent had posters taken away at the press conference.
9:20 🎥 Putin says they “need to do the math” on whether a bridge across the Lena River is necessary.
10:46 🎥 Putin already promised to solve the bridge problem two years ago.
12:05 🎥 An obstacle course on the way to Yakutsk.
13:53 Why there is still no bridge across the Lena River.
16:27 Britain is an enemy, but that doesn’t seem to bother Brilev, a British citizen.
17:08 🎥 Sergei Brilev at Putin’s press conference.
19:52 🎥 “Putin’s numbers are official lies” — on Putin’s statistics.
23:54 🎥 A question for Putin about Primorye (Russia’s Primorsky Krai region).
27:30 ❗️ Putin and Kozhemyako lost in Primorye (Russia’s Primorsky Krai region).
31:23 A court blocked the Smart Voting website. Use a VPN and register here: https://2019.vote
33:35 💬 The election in Primorye showed that the authorities won’t give up even a small piece of power without a fight.
35:08 ❓ What happens if Russia abandons the dollar?
35:41 ❓ Do you condemn participation in the HRC (Presidential Human Rights Council)?
37:16 ❓ It’s perfectly logical to assume that the authorities will try to restrict freedom of speech on the internet as much as possible. So what will we do then?
38:11 ❗️ Circus and clowns.
39:30 🎥 Zapashny vs. Cirque du Soleil.
42:35 Alexei on whether we need circuses with animals.
46:49 ❗️ Sobyanin and Liksutov’s failure: a bit about paid parking in Moscow.
55:27 ❗️ Russia and the Ukrainian church.
57:43 Putin and the “Russian World” (the Kremlin-backed concept of a transnational Russian civilizational sphere).
1:00:00 “I don’t believe the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church believe in God.”
1:02:05 🎥 Putin on the Ukrainian church.
1:04:14 ❗️ 20 billion rubles for blocking the internet.
1:06:39 🎥 Valentina Matviyenko on outdoor school toilets in the regions.
1:08:20 🎥 Tamara Pletnyova on there being no money for children.
1:09:06 “In the beautiful Russia of the future, all the people who voted to allocate 20 billion rubles to block the internet will be sent out into the streets, and they’ll be insulating school toilets for us.”
