Almost two hours live on air. The terrorist attack near the FSB building happened an hour before the broadcast, so I discussed both the usual planned topics and breaking news on air.
At its peak, there were 65,000 concurrent viewers.
1:10 Live: Alexei Navalny, or “the man who could take the oath of office in the mausoleum” (according to Kremlin media).
3:03 “Of course, all of this looks horrifying. And it is a serious reason to talk about how effectively we are spending 33% of the Russian Federation’s budget on security if things like this happen amid the extraordinary measures that are taken every day,” Navalny said about the shooting near the FSB building.
4:07 🎥 A woman filmed police officers running on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow.
5:02 The FSB classifies the incident as a terrorist attack.
5:55 🎥 Central Moscow filled with people in camouflage after the gunfire near the FSB building.
6:47 🎥 A shootout in central Moscow.
7:51 🎥 People run from the shootout in central Moscow.
8:39 🎥 One of the FSB officers falls to the ground after being shot.
10:11 🎥 Gunfire at the facade of the FSB building.
10:54 “It is obvious that this is a demonstrative terrorist attack timed to Putin’s call-in show, and to Chekist Day (the professional holiday of Russia’s security services) and Putin’s speech for Chekist Day.”
11:55 🎥 Putin’s speech at a concert for Chekist Day interrupted during the shooting near the FSB building.
12:51 The Investigative Committee says the shooting near the FSB building on Lubyanka was carried out by one person.
15:03❓Could all of this have been staged to boost the FSB’s ratings ahead of Chekist Day, and Putin’s ratings too?
17:16 “This regime has descended into complete absurdity when it comes to protecting itself and promoting the idea that everything in Russia is perfectly calm and there are no problems at all.”
17:46❗️You can’t just cut words out of a song: the Rossiya-1 TV channel removed the word “protests” from a Bi-2 song.
18:18 🎥 The original performance of the Bi-2 song.
19:13 🎥 How the song sounded on Rossiya-1.
21:39 🎥 Shooting on Lubyanka: one of the FSB officers falls to the ground after being shot.
21:52 Russia’s FSB reports one officer killed.
23:52 “Of course, we would very much like to trust our own security services, but it is impossible to do so.”
30:39 “If there really is a fight against terrorism in Russia, then we want to see terrorist cells being uncovered. Tell us who these foreign sponsors are, who these perpetrators are. None of this is known for years on end.”
34:00❗️A failed uprising on TNT.
41:18❗️Schindler’s List and Hitler’s machinations.
43:52 🎥 Bomb disposal experts at work on Lubyanka.
46:12 “In terms of murders per capita, we are genuinely on the level of the most underdeveloped African countries. So what exactly are we paying for?”
47:35❗️Using the National Guard against doctors.
48:30 🎥 National Guard troops with assault rifles protected management from fired doctors.
51:02 “The National Guard and the entire security apparatus exist for one purpose only: to intimidate people.”
52:12 🎥 Vyacheslav Volodin contradicted the health minister’s claim that doctors’ average salary is 79,000 rubles (about $1,270 at the time).
54:15 🎥 People run from the shootout in central Moscow.
55:14 🎥 The moment the attacker on the FSB building was killed.
56:39 🎥 One of the FSB officers falls to the ground after being shot.
57:02 One law enforcement officer was killed, and two FSB officers are in serious condition.
1:00:13❗️Sergei “I’m afraid of your questions” Sobyanin.
1:01:00 🎥 From a detention center to the State Duma: https://youtu.be/ab4x8aaxYWE
1:03:59 The Moscow City Duma rejected Yabloko’s question about “mass unrest” because it was “not relevant to the subject of the government report.”
1:04:29 🎥 Deputy Darya Besedina asked Moscow Mayor Sobyanin about “mass unrest” despite his ban.
1:06:00 🎥 Mayor Sobyanin’s answer to the question about “mass unrest.”
1:09:48 “All these people—Sobyanin, Putin—they are simply unfit for any kind of public politics. The slightest competition, and they lose.”
1:10:08 🎥 “The authorities have hidden again”: Moscow City Duma deputy Pavel Tarasov on the Moscow mayor’s report.
1:13:28❗️Vladimir Putin is talking nonsense.
1:14:12 🎥 A Bulgarian man with an icon praises Putin during the press conference.
1:16:03❓Could this terrorist attack become a pretext for tightening the screws on us and increasing censorship, along the lines of the law against “insulting the authorities”?
1:21:48 🎥 A bullet-riddled car in central Moscow.
1:25:10 🎥 Putin is worried about the Carpathians.
1:26:40 🎥 The forests of the Baikal region under Putin (from 1999 to 2016): https://youtu.be/_8h58zVvMMs
1:29:46 🎥 How Putin skillfully dodges a question about sick children in Russia.
1:34:48 “If you get caught being a corrupt FSB officer who plants drugs on someone, you’ll be transferred to Gazprom.”
1:35:21 🎥 Putin on the case of Ivan Golunov, on whom police planted drugs.
1:37:17 🎥 Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov on the Ivan Golunov case.
1:38:00 A case against the security officers who detained Golunov was opened one day before Vladimir Putin’s press conference.
1:40:00❓What could be the motive for opening fire on the FSB?
1:41:49❓Please comment on the situation surrounding the question to Putin about his daughters.
1:44:47 🎥 A BBC journalist asked Putin about his daughters. He dodged the question.
1:49:38 “If he lies to you about his daughter, do you think we will ever learn the truth about the terrorist attack that happened?”
1:51:28 “I very much hope that sooner or later the people of Russia will learn the truth about what happened today in central Moscow and about all the other terrorist attacks that have taken place in Russia recently.”
