Timestamps from yesterday’s livestream:
0:45 Live: Alexei Navalny, or “a man harboring plans for bloody protests” (according to Kremlin media).
1:15❗️History falsifiers: the name of world chess champion Garry Kasparov was struck from the manuscript of a book dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Spartak sports society.
2:08 🎥 “We have repeatedly encountered a selective approach to history in service of political expediency”: how Putin expresses concern about the falsification of history.
4:19 🎥 Honoring chess player Garry Kasparov after his 1985 victory.
5:48 “Putin and this entire regime absolutely do not care about the country or its heritage.”
6:16❗️A lawsuit against Putin.
6:37 🎥 ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) is suing Putin: https://youtu.be/bDkqAB3Y1hk
8:11 “In America, people sue Trump and sometimes win. Judges and prosecutors initiate some lawsuits themselves. In the beautiful Russia of the future, people will be able to sue the president and, apparently, win in court against him.”
9:04 “Putin gave the orders to organize all these searches. Under the law, Putin is the top boss of the Investigative Committee. The scale of lawlessness in this case is simply enormous.”
13:28❓Can Putin respond to the lawsuit in any way?
13:41 “I’m sure Putin will pretend nothing is happening. The court will try to throw out our lawsuit.”
14:52❗️In power so long that he forgot.
15:23 “The guy has been in power so long that he’s genuinely forgotten what happened 10 years ago. And the people around him have forgotten too. So they just start saying the same things over and over again, hoping everyone has already forgotten what they said before.”
16:16 🎥 Putin on the most important things Russia must do, at the “Russia Calling!” forum in 2019 (which he had already talked about back in 2013).
17:13 🎥 Vladimir Putin talks about the importance of increasing labor productivity at a 2013 forum.
19:12 🎥 The president launched the construction of a major rail line in Tuva in 2011. Work still has not begun.
22:05❓What do you think about the mandatory preinstallation of domestic software on smartphones?
24:07❓Could you comment on your position regarding Valery Rashkin’s statements about impeaching Putin?
24:38❓What do you think about St. Petersburg’s 7 million ruble logo (about $110,000 at the time)?
26:01❗️Who boiled those people alive?
26:15 🎥 Two people died in Penza after a pipe carrying boiling water burst.
28:40 “Ninety percent of Russian billionaires got their money from wealth created through collapse and poverty.”
30:08 “No one will ever fix the pipe in Penza as long as these housing and utilities monopolists remain in place,” Navalny says about the burst pipe in Penza, which was serviced by a company linked to Viktor Vekselberg.
31:09❓What do you think about the draft law on preventing domestic violence?
32:45 “Unfortunately, domestic violence has always existed, and we must eradicate it. There used to be a proper criminal code that covered all of this.”
33:54❓What is happening in Shiyes?
34:17❗️Rogozin’s space-age riches.
34:30 🎥 Putin speaks with apparent surprise about corruption at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
36:34 🎥 Investigation into Rogozin’s wealth: https://youtu.be/wjDULQzo6aA
37:47❓What do you think about the decision to allow drones to be shot down with live weapons?
39:45 “Management gets paid several times more, while engineers get several times less. And we’re still surprised that Russia has fallen behind not only the U.S. and the EU in the number of launches—even China has left us far, far behind. All these people’s intellectual resources have gone into servicing their own schemes,” Navalny says about the pay gap between Roscosmos and NASA.
40:58 Dmitry Rogozin’s legendary tweet.
41:57❓What do you think about the launch of the Moscow Central Diameters (MCD)?
43:33❓Do you know any details about Abyzov’s ties to Swedbank and the transfer of $800 million out of Russia to offshore accounts belonging to Abyzov’s companies?
44:17❗️Watch your back.
46:18 🎥 An address from the wife of Yevgeny Erzunov, who has been unlawfully accused of threatening a Moscow judge.
47:54 “There’s a whole gang of idlers whose job is to comb through comments, read what people wrote about Judge Krivoruchko, and then open criminal cases.”
49:17 “When people write something on the internet, it means nothing by itself. But here they immediately throw people into pretrial detention. Because the state values Judge Krivoruchko, who is ready to jail, execute, trample, and burn anyone for any imaginary crime. He does the same thing as bandits—just in a judge’s robe.”
50:01❓Will there be anything today about “grab-and-scrape” (“tsap-tsarap,” Putin’s phrase about taking technology)?
51:12❓What do you think about the decision in Yakutia for all schoolchildren to perform the national anthem in order to foster a “socially responsible individual”?
53:03❗️The deputies are on the warpath.
54:24 🎥 “There are people responsible for all this happening, and for innocent people ending up in prison”: Moscow City Duma deputy Oleg Sheremetyev speaks at a roundtable on the summer protests and the “Moscow Case.”
56:36 “All judges in Moscow’s courts are slaves to Olga Yegorova. She built the system perfectly: it produces the most unlawful rulings.”
57:15 🎥 “Why didn’t you and your subordinates resign after what happened this summer?”: Moscow City Duma deputy Oleg Sheremetyev tells Olga Yegorova to her face what he thinks of her.
58:40 United Russia member Lyudmila Stebenkova complains that communists are threatening to have her shot.
1:00:26 🎥 Lyubov Sobol and Ruslan Shaveddinov were put on the Moscow City Duma’s blacklist.
1:01:58 “I want to once again thank everyone who took part in Smart Voting. We elected such great deputies that they’re now giving United Russia a hard time, even while in the minority.”
