1:03 Live: Alexei Navalny, or a “luxury-loving windbag” (according to Kremlin media).
1:30❗️Russia’s startup incubator is the pre-trial detention center: the office of IT company nginx is being searched following a lawsuit by Rambler.
3:44 🎥 “We need to get rid of everything that restricts the freedom and initiative of entrepreneurship”: how Putin protects business.
7:29 “In Russia, the pre-trial detention center is a startup incubator, because they grab everyone, drag everyone in, and bring charges against everyone.”
10:28 “Belarus has now become a paradise for IT. Because for tech workers, from a business standpoint, it’s a freer country. People will leave from everywhere, taking with them their taxes, their ideas, their salaries, their money, and their future. And as a result, we’ll all become a little poorer.”
11:30❗️Its own Olympics with Matviyenko: Russia has been banned from the Olympics and world championships for four years over the doping scandal.
13:36 🎥 “We can hold our own Olympic Games in our country”: Valentina Matviyenko on Russia’s ban from the Olympics and championships.
15:11 “Athletes in every country work themselves to the bone their whole lives to win. And nobody likes it when you just come in and start rigging it at the state level. You’ve simply broken the whole of sport. Because competing has become completely meaningless. The whole world was shouting that this shouldn’t be politicized,” Navalny said about doping in Russia.
16:48 🎥 “It won’t be a tragedy for us if we aren’t allowed in”: Vitaly Mutko on Russia’s ban from the Olympic Games.
17:16❓Why do you call everyone “dudes”?
18:10❓What do you think about the news that Putin accepted the resignation of the governor of Irkutsk?
20:06❗️First a paper cup, then a bullet.
22:51 🎥 “Next they’ll start shooting and looting stores”: Putin comments on the “Moscow case” (the criminal prosecutions following 2019 Moscow protest rallies).
24:22 “Here we have the head of state, who is, after all, a lawyer, directly saying that these cases are completely fabricated. And this is a kind of ritual punishment.”
25:50 “All we want is for them not to steal; all we want is for our candidates to be allowed onto the ballot, and nobody wants to burn down any stores. He’s just lying, and the Human Rights Council sits there nodding along.”
27:26❓What’s going on again with the Admiral Kuznetsov?
27:40❗️Colleagues, this is a total f***ing disaster.
28:40❓“You wouldn’t happen to have a Jewish surname, would you?”: the Lipetsk mayor’s reaction to a pointed question about construction.
29:52 🎥 The mayor of Lipetsk inspected a park under construction, swearing as she went.
32:07 “Everyone basically understands that the main task of United Russia is to steal something. And really, all these officials are in office in order to steal something.”
34:52 “Putin’s system has dragged us back to something like the 1990s, when there was endless, constant chaos, because if Yeltsin was drunk all the time, then Putin is always either swimming in a pool, playing hockey, or busy with his war against Trump.”
35:45❓Please comment on the sentencing of two young men to 6.5 years in a maximum-security penal colony for supporting fire victims in Rostov.
36:48 “This system is cannibalistic—they just devour people. These are officials, security officers, people who don’t feel a shred of pity. What’s more, they take sadistic pleasure in grabbing two random people with placards and locking them up for 6.5 years.”
37:48❗️I understand that they’re a**holes.
39:39 🎥 The chair of the Moscow City Duma forgot the microphone was on and insulted fellow deputies.
41:36 🎥 Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin asks about Alexei Shaposhnikov’s real estate.
43:20 🎥 United Russia deputy Lyudmila Stebenkova on financing the “foreign agent” ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation).
43:58 🎥 Lyudmila Stebenkova accused Moscow City Duma deputies from the Communist Party (KPRF) of being allied with Navalny.
46:05 🎥 “Do judges bear any responsibility at all?”: Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin asks Moscow City Court chair Olga Yegorova.
47:57❓Ilya Maddyson joined the LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia)—how would you comment on that?
48:38❗️Whose is Crimea?
52:05 “In a system where Crimea is under sanctions and disputed status, this gray zone—where the law barely functions as it is—has been flooded by greedy people who want to build palaces, all these FSB and FSO people. There’s Medvedev’s dacha, Putin’s dacha. They’re simply spending billions building structures never seen before.”
52:39❓What do you think of Ivan Zhdanov’s arrest?
53:22❓Is deputy Shuvalova being pushed out of the Communist Party?
54:32❓What do you think about officials giving themselves New Year holidays lasting almost a month?
55:58 🎥 A dialogue between Navalny and a Russia-1 journalist.
58:04❗️They apologized to the Americans.
1:01:11 “The way the current authorities treat all of us, the people of this country, as second-class citizens—that’s something that plainly shows through.”
1:02:50❗️Football fans and Center “E” officers (Russia’s anti-extremism police).
1:06:10 🎥 Russian football fans walk out of the stadium during a match in protest against the mass detentions of Spartak supporters in St. Petersburg.
1:07:22 “When the state-owned Gazprom is busy organizing campaigns against fans, that’s what you call state lawlessness.”
1:09:14❗️Putin is Hublot.
1:10:24 🎥 How a scene from the TV series Servant of the People was shown on TNT.
1:10:45 🎥 And what the full version of the scene with the joke about Putin looked like.
1:12:12 “This signal—how they flinch from absolutely everything—shows that this is not some mighty, strong власть at all. If we put in just a little effort, we can bring them to their senses. And judging by what they’re doing, they clearly need to be brought to their senses.”
