Against all odds, yesterday we managed to put on a full live broadcast. And our efforts were worth it: at the peak, 61,000 people were watching live simultaneously, and it has already reached 570,000 views.
A huge thank you to our wonderful team, who know how to work under the toughest conditions. And of course, thank you all for supporting us and making all of this possible.
See you after the holidays! Happy New Year in advance!
4:44❗️Live: Alexei Navalny, or "the man who wants to pay a psychiatrist" (according to Kremlin media).
6:22 🎥 ACF director Ivan Zhdanov on the search of the ACF office.
7:55 Today we are testing a new donation platform. Follow the link and support us: https://donate.fbkteam.org
9:07 "I’m ready to announce that two viewers correctly guessed that Asker-zade’s plane would fly to London."
9:39❗️New Year at ACF.
10:26 🎥 What the start of the search looked like from the perspective of ACF staff.
11:23 🎥 How they sawed through the door at the ACF office.
12:21 🎥 Men in helmets stormed the ACF office.
14:36 "Right now, the bailiffs’ special forces are walking around in helmets, and those helmets are a direct copy of SS helmets from the war."
15:03 🎥 Security forces storm the Navalny LIVE studio office.
16:28 "All those bailiffs were obviously extremely nervous because they understood that at that moment they were acting as Usmanov’s servants. And they did not want to be those servants."
17:33 🎥 How a special forces officer threatened ACF employee Boris Zolotarevsky and suggested they "step around the corner."
21:23 An Agora lawyer got into the search disguised as an OMON officer (a Russian riot police unit).
23:23❗️Shaveddinov on Novaya Zemlya (a remote Russian Arctic archipelago).
23:45 "Russia’s corrupt autocratic власти have always done this: if a student talks too much, then let’s just draft him into the army. And that is a very disturbing thing. They have once again demonstrated that the army and prison are one and the same."
26:47 🎥 The door to Ruslan Shaveddinov’s apartment after the search.
28:09 🎥 How Ruslan Shaveddinov was taken to a military unit.
31:11 "There is no legal concept or mechanism under which someone can grab you and forcibly take you to a military unit. That is impossible. Neither the police nor the military can do that. There is criminal liability for evading service. But Shaveddinov was not evading anything—he attended court hearings, he received summonses. They kidnapped him completely illegally."
33:55 "So what must his parents be feeling? Their son was kidnapped and taken somewhere where it’s minus 40 degrees Celsius. He has nothing with him, and they won’t let him call anyone."
34:10 🎥 Footage from a Kremlin TV channel showing Ruslan Shaveddinov being led to a bed.
36:32 "Yota, his mobile carrier, simply disabled his SIM card so that while they were breaking down his door, he would not be able to send anyone a text message or call from his phone. This is another excellent example of how all these servants are ready to grovel before the state."
37:52 ❓Have you appealed to the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) over Ruslan’s abduction?
38:32❓How will you help Ruslan, and have you become convinced that things are not so simple when it comes to Lubyanka (the headquarters of Russia’s security services)?
39:57❗️Putin is fighting citizens’ incomes.
41:00 🎥 "One of the main tasks in this area is to fight the rise in citizens’ incomes": Putin misspoke during a meeting with government members.
42:14 "The Kremlin is in a frenzy because they cannot raise income levels—they have wrecked the economy. The government controls nothing. All the people who make up Putin’s inner circle do is steal."
43:35❓Thank you very much for the report on domestic violence: https://youtu.be/LPB32TjBbu4
44:10 The searches at ACF and the Navalny LIVE studio have ended.
44:40 "Even Putin has already said that people should stop being jailed for likes, but they keep jailing them anyway—and in even greater numbers. Because this system cannot be stopped. What we have at the head of the country now is the result of negative selection: the rule of the worst. The worse a person is, the higher they rise in this hierarchy."
45:09❗️The investigation that brought in the special forces.
48:28 🎥 ACF’s new investigation into VTB head Andrei Kostin: https://youtu.be/CeTO6RHwzvE
50:03 🎥 Navalny on VTB’s corruption scheme: https://youtu.be/CeTO6RHwzvE
53:17❗️United Russia is afraid and causing a scandal.
57:58 🎥 Moscow City Duma deputies walked out of the chamber in protest after the amendments were passed.
1:00:22 "Egorova has turned judges into powerless ants who hand down absolutely any unlawful ruling."
1:00:40 🎥 United Russia deputies kiss the hand of Moscow City Duma head Olga Egorova.
1:03:40 Navalny on Russia’s integration with Belarus.
1:05:08❗️Healthcare has collapsed, but somehow improved.
1:05:55 🎥 Russian Deputy Prime Minister for social policy Tatyana Golikova admitted that healthcare "optimization" had failed.
1:06:51 🎥 Federal Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova called Russian healthcare exemplary.
1:07:55 "In many regions of the country, optimization was carried out terribly," Tatyana Golikova said about healthcare reform in Russia.
1:10:08 What the ACF and Navalny LIVE offices look like after the search.
1:11:29❗️Who is this powerful old man?
1:13:46 🎥 Goalkeepers moved away from the net so Putin could score 10 goals.
1:15:16 🎥 The president of Turkmenistan lifts a barbell.
1:19:04 🎥 Putin scores goals alone on the Kremlin ice rink.
1:20:02 "I want to wish everyone that next year we achieve something real and alive happening in Russia, so that we are no longer watching this constant lying. Let’s make sure something alive happens in our country—it all depends on you and me."
1:20:55 🎥 New Year’s greetings from ACF staff.
