Timestamps from yesterday’s live broadcast. Peak concurrent viewership reached 40,700.
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0:49 Live: Alexei Navalny — or “the man behind the forged signatures” (according to the propaganda outlet PolitRussia).
1:04 “Moscow, this Saturday you have nothing more important to do than go to Sakharov Avenue at 2:00 p.m.!” — Navalny on the July 20 rally demanding that independent candidates be allowed onto the ballot.
2:47❗️I don’t like lawlessness.
3:46 🎥 “Putin no longer understands what’s good and what’s bad”: hockey player Artemi Panarin criticized the Russian president in an interview with journalist Alexander Golovin.
5:33 Sign up for “Smart Voting”: https://vote2019.appspot.com
9:00 Navalny on the Moscow City Election Commission’s unlawful refusal to register independent candidates.
12:10 🎥 “My name is Elena Lukyanova, and I do not exist”: the signature of a Doctor of Law was declared invalid after review by handwriting experts.
13:54: “Our whole country has turned into a prison where the only thing you can do is go on a hunger strike,” — Navalny on Lyubov Sobol’s hunger strike, which had already lasted nearly a week.
15:20 🎥 “I am declaring a hunger strike”: https://youtu.be/3CAHU0vi8mY
16:59 🎥 People who were stripped of their right to vote.
18:55 🎥 From City Hall to the election commission: independent candidates meet with voters in Moscow on July 14.
21:14 🎥 Violent detentions outside the Moscow City Election Commission on July 14.
23:55 🎥 OMON riot police clear out a café under an absurd order.
27:58 🎥 “A rally is better than the whorehouse you’re running here!”: an election commission meeting on whether to allow Lyubov Sobol to run in the Moscow City Duma election.
29:43 Navalny on how the authorities will fight the Communists in the election.
33:30 🎥 A speech by one of Ivan Zhdanov’s signature collectors at Trubnaya Square.
36:10 🎥 Moscow City Election Commission head Valentin Gorbunov’s country house worth 60 million rubles (about €850,000 at the time).
37:46 🎥 The Croatian harbor of the head of the Moscow City Election Commission: https://youtu.be/FByVkbGgzS8
40:36 🎥 A rally in Karachay-Cherkessia against removing Communist candidates from the parliamentary election ballot.
43:39❗️And what about Beglov?
44:50 🎥 St. Petersburg municipal deputy candidate Fyodor Gorozhanko was detained for allegedly breaking a door he had never even seen.
46:10 🎥 The husband of the head of the Izmaylovskoye municipal election commission threatens independent candidates — his wife’s rivals — with physical violence.
47:22 “How exactly does this disgusting crook plan to ‘win’?” — Navalny on Beglov’s strategy in the St. Petersburg gubernatorial election.
48:22 🎥 Polling stations for St. Petersburg residents will be opened in Pskov Region.
49:44 Vote for anyone but Beglov. Sign up for “Smart Voting” in St. Petersburg: https://spb.vote
49:53❓Come early to the July 20 rally, or you’ll spend an hour waiting at the security checkpoints.
50:31❗️A government body is a mound of immortality.
51:37 🎥 Alena’s “offensive” dance in Bryansk Region.
52:05 How and why a young woman from Bryansk was fined for “disrespect toward society and the authorities.”
55:55❗️National Guard extortionists.
56:18 🎥 In St. Petersburg, National Guard officers who planted drugs on a teenager were arrested.
59:49❗️Dangerous criminals.
59:54 A Moscow woman was detained for “smuggling prohibited substances.” She had been trying to receive by mail medication for a seriously ill child.
1:03:20 🎥 In Likino-Dulyovo, outside Moscow, police detained a child during a protest against clearing forest for the construction of a landfill.
1:05:10❗️Two worlds, two Shapiros.
1:06:03 🎥 Elon Musk’s company demonstrated for the first time its brain-computer interface technology for connecting the human brain to a computer.
1:07:57 🎥 New Russian technology: Putin and Lukashenko are shown an icon said to be exuding myrrh (a miracle in Orthodox tradition).
1:08:15 “For 20 years now, the miracles happening in Russia have had nothing to do with neurophysiology; instead, they have to do with tears once streaming from an icon. This is shown on the federal TV channels — this is our spirituality. And this, apparently, is how Russia will make its great breakthrough.”
1:09:26❗️The best customer.
1:10:40 Igor Shuvalov bought €1.3 million worth of Turkish carpets.
1:13:07 “I’m going to Sakharov Avenue on Saturday the 20th at 2:00 p.m., in part because the authorities have become outrageously brazen and I want to live in a normal country. Please come to this rally too. I’ll be very much hoping to see you there.”
