Timestamps for yesterday’s broadcast.
0:26 In our studio: Alexei Navalny — or, in State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov’s words, a “madman with pale eyes.”
0:46 🎥 Milonov “doesn’t know a single person who is ready to vote” for Navalny.
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2:14 ❗️ Sobol has announced her candidacy.
2:45 🎥 “Today’s State Duma is one big collective legislative Putin. It is an extension of Putin, one of his many tentacles,” Lyubov Sobol says about taking part in the 2021 State Duma elections.
4:59 Navalny calls on opposition politicians to take part in the State Duma elections.
5:53 ❓ Why isn’t Navalny himself running in the State Duma elections?
6:45 ❓ How accurate is the information about a possible lockdown of Moscow?
8:44 ❗️ Putin and gasoline prices.
9:52 🎥 How Vladimir Putin expressed outrage this week over rising gasoline prices.
11:35 🎥 Vladimir Putin was once again outraged by rising gasoline prices — this time in 2014.
12:10 🎥 And he was outraged in 2018 too.
12:47 “Everyone knows why gasoline prices are rising — because of a monopoly. Whose monopoly? Putin’s best friend Sechin’s. State oligarchs have taken over the entire country.”
14:35 ❗️ Putin is visibly uncomfortable.
16:14 🎥 What does Putin think about the enormous salaries of the heads of Russia’s state corporations?
16:53 How much have Sechin, Kostin, and Yakunin earned while you watch this broadcast? See for yourself: https://money.fbk.info
17:50 “Everyone understands perfectly well that Putin is the person who allowed them to receive salaries like these.”
22:09 🎥 An investigation by Proekt (an independent Russian media outlet) into the glamorous but secret life of a friend of Igor Sechin and a former top Rosneft executive.
25:39 ❓ What happened to Ruslan Shaveddinov — where has he been hidden away?
27:09 ❗️ A supporter of serfdom has approved the Constitution.
28:36 “This shows very clearly how important these amendments are to Putin”: the Constitutional Court approved the constitutional amendments over a single weekend.
30:19 How the Constitutional Court explains its approval of the amendment “resetting” Putin’s presidential term count.
33:16 The head of the Constitutional Court and his 2014 article arguing that serfdom was a good thing.
35:58 🎥 Putin: “Only after the people have had their say will I sign the bill. Or I won’t.”
36:56 Putin signed the amendments immediately after the Constitutional Court’s ruling — more than a month before the announced vote.
37:57 🎥 “Our people are being treated like stupid cattle,” says Moscow City Duma deputy Sheremetyev in a speech about the vote on the amendments.
41:23 🎥 How propagandists’ rhetoric changed after the announcement that Putin’s term limits would be reset.
42:16 ❓ Why is there no unified opposition position on the vote over the amendments?
46:04 🎥 Sergey Bezrukov appeared in a campaign video urging people to vote for the amendments.
48:05 ❗️ “Want Putin to leave? Vote for the Constitution!”
48:36 How the number of voters will be determined — or why this vote is complete absurdity from the observers’ point of view.
52:41 “A Constitution without authoritarianism and permanent rule!”, “Navalny can dictate to Russia what it may and may not do,” and other wonderful quotes from the talking points guide for Putin’s amendments.
58:35 ❓ In practical terms, how will your refusal to recognize the April 22 vote be expressed?
1:00:10 In Ingushetia, a case has been opened against the head of the council of teips (Ingush clan associations) for refusing to take part in the vote on the amendments.
1:01:22 ❗️ The vote will solve the Pension Fund’s problems.
1:01:51 “What they are doing now by announcing this vote for April 22 is truly a crime against everyone, and pensioners in particular.”
1:04:58 🎥 Coronavirus fatality rates for different age groups.
1:07:52 “According to the official data, Russia has carried out more coronavirus tests than the UK, France, Australia, and the US. That’s just a colossal lie!”
1:09:32 🎥 What coronavirus testing looks like in South Korea.
1:16:02 In Kurgan, they are trying to test people for coronavirus using a bacterial culture — or, how viruses differ from bacteria.
1:19:09 🎥 “Listen to the elders!” — advice from a United Russia deputy and a hospital chief physician at a Moscow City Duma session.
1:20:59 🎥 Anastasia Vasilyeva on how medical staff are being forced to wash gauze masks.
1:22:46 🎥 Vladimir Solovyov on the Doctors’ Alliance. Whom does he blame for all the problems?
1:24:24 “People should go to jail for this. There is now a recognized coronavirus epidemic, quarantines are in place everywhere. United Russia has gathered a bunch of elderly people in one room and is holding a concert.”
1:26:07 ❗️ If you own shoes, you’re middle class.
1:26:46 🎥 Putin has found the middle class in Russia. In his view, it includes people earning more than 17,000 rubles a month (about $230 at the time).
1:32:43 🎥 Beglov spoke with a random female shopper in a store. She just so happened to be an actress — and the mother of his security guard.
1:33:42 “As for Putin, these staged stand-ins have existed for 20 years already. He sees no one except staged stand-ins!”
1:34:18 🎥 “Look at what’s happening there. Nothing good!” — Putin on the economy and pension reform in France.
1:37:46 🎥 FSO officers (members of Russia’s Federal Protective Service) cannot answer Putin’s question about the average salary at the factory whose workers they are pretending to be.
1:39:31 “They will never leave on their own, so they must be fought. Let’s do it with all our strength!”
