Timestamps for yesterday’s livestream:
0:43 Live on air: Alexei Navalny — or, as some call him, “the man who dances on graves” — and Lyubov Sobol, producer of the Navalny LIVE channel and Navalny’s co-defendant in multimillion-ruble lawsuits.
1:32 We kick off the broadcast by unboxing the “Gold Play Button” that Navalny LIVE received for reaching one million subscribers.
4:55 “A huge thank-you to everyone helping us make this channel. This is our shared work. And the fact that you keep spreading all this content really makes a difference.”
5:31❗️“On Wheels” with Stalingulag.
7:07 “There are 320,000 wheelchair users in Russia — the population of a major city. I knew it was difficult, but I had no idea that getting around Moscow was practically impossible.”
8:14 🎥 What Sobyanin’s “barrier-free environment” really looks like.
11:04 After Stalingulag’s “On Wheels” episode with Alexei Navalny aired, the Avtozavodskaya station on the Moscow Central Circle began to be adapted for people with disabilities.
11:58 🎥 A chance encounter with a deputy from the Rostov region during the filming of “On Wheels.”
12:59 🎥 Azov City Duma deputy Vladimir Yurov called for a review of the cases against activists convicted over pickets in Rostov.
14:14❓In Europe, why does it always seem like “where did all these disabled people come from?”
14:54❓What’s going on with the elevator?
15:55❓All stations need to be equipped with elevators.
16:34 “320,000 of our fellow citizens can’t leave their homes; they literally can’t travel even 20 meters from their front door,” Navalny says about Russia’s so-called “barrier-free” environment.
18:25❗️Amnestied — and then jailed.
19:07 🎥 Putin announces a capital amnesty in 2014.
22:56 “He made the promise to the whole country — and lied. But there’s nothing we can do about it, because the system is accountable to no one,” Navalny says about criminal cases opened against businesspeople after Putin promised a full amnesty.
24:26❗️Russia’s most important people.
24:39 Rustam Gabdulin, a leading fabricator of criminal cases, received the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland,” 1st Class.
27:11 Authorities “seized” 100 billion rubles from an employee at Navalny’s Yekaterinburg штаб.
30:22 🎥 Police officers filmed the falling-apart shoes they are forced to wear.
31:28❓Alexei, could you comment on Shulman’s departure from the Human Rights Council?
34:41❗️A place for discussion.
36:18 🎥 “Bastards, how many for, how many against?”: how chairman Alexei Shaposhnikov counted votes at a Moscow City Duma session.
38:43 🎥 Deputy Yekaterina Engalycheva raised the issue of Sergunina-linked buildings at a Moscow City Duma session.
40:28 🎥 “Try talking to people, try living like them”: Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin accused officials of being out of touch with Russian reality.
42:51 🎥 Moscow City Duma deputy Elena Shuvalova went to inspect the building where Larisa Guzeeva received her apartment. Afterward, she and her aide were attacked.
44:28 🎥 They were made millionaires. At our expense: https://youtu.be/vJayAEDco0o
47:00 🎥 “The Price of the Matter”: State Duma Deputy Speaker Olga Timofeyeva explains where her apartment came from.
48:21❓Alexei, what do you think about Russia forgiving $20 billion in debt to African countries?
48:53 “I simply don’t understand how we — a poor country where huge numbers of people don’t even have access to sewage systems or hot water — are forgiving debts owed by African countries.”
49:27❗️Your money is waiting in Africa.
49:45 🎥 Vladimir Putin proudly announces the forgiveness of $20 billion owed by African countries.
54:59 🎥 “Russia is ready to work with its African partners on projects that will improve quality of life in Africa”: a statement by Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin.
55:46 “Right now, in 2019, the Russian Federation has no extra money to help African countries or carry out projects to improve quality of life in Africa. Don’t we want to improve quality of life for ourselves? Twenty-two percent of Russian households have no access to sewage systems.”
57:56 “Right now, teachers, doctors — everyone — are being forced to claw out the salaries they were promised.”
58:20 🎥 Teacher Raushan Valiullin from Naberezhnye Chelny secured a pay raise in line with the “May decrees” (Putin’s 2012 policy directives).
1:02:00❗️Not Africa — Krasnoyarsk.
1:02:54 The TV channel Rossiya-1 aired rapid environmental tests showing excessive mercury levels in the Seiba River in the Krasnoyarsk region. The report was later removed.
1:04:13 🎥 What the dam collapse in Krasnoyarsk Krai looked like.
1:06:43 🎥 The blockade of a settlement in Arkhangelsk region.
1:07:36 “Why is the government blockading a settlement so that Chaika’s children can make money? Because someone is profiting from your land and dumping waste brought in from Moscow.”
1:08:36❗️An improper question.
1:09:47 🎥 In Dagestan, a student asked the interior minister a question. Now they want to expel him.
1:11:57❗️A criminal orphan.
1:13:49 🎥 A Russian orphan tore up the Constitution after the authorities refused to give him the apartment he was legally entitled to.
1:14:40 “And I also think the current Russian Constitution is crap. Because it doesn’t even let us determine whether governors are elected or appointed. Under this Constitution, Putin stays in power forever. It’s set up so that United Russia has seized power.”
1:16:17❗️An extremist statement.
1:17:46 🎥 A Belgorod resident was jailed for five days over an “extremist” video about United Russia: https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1185461539219955713?s=20
1:20:17 “Right now, there is no other phrase we can say except ‘United Russia is the party of crooks and thieves.’ Dear United Russia, if you are going to label people extremists for that phrase, then you will have to label every resident of our country an extremist.”
