0:38 On air: Alexei Navalny, or “the man who figured out how to spoil the constitutional plebiscite.”
2:05❗️From Vorontsov to Smirnov.
9:44 🎥The detention of journalists Alexander Plushev and Tatyana Felgengauer.
10:44 “This effectively means that any public expression of one’s position will be punishable—by arrest, as in the cases of Azar and Nemytov, or by a fine, which is apparently how this will end for the journalists.”
23:53 🎥The detention of participants in a shootout in southern Moscow.
26:05 “All of this—the National Guard (Rosgvardiya), the FSB, and the Interior Ministry—now exists not to fight crime, but to suppress everyone who dislikes Putin and his mafia state.”
28:30❗️Why are stores being looted in America?
31:32 🎥An American police officer choked a suspect to death during an arrest.
35:37 “There will be consequences, partly because people took to the streets. How else are you supposed to respond to such brazen police lawlessness?”
48:23❗️A miracle has happened in the Caucasus.
49:52 🎥A clip from Alexei Pivovarov’s film about the coronavirus situation in Dagestan.
52:39 “A miracle is taking place. Guess how many people are currently infected in Dagestan? According to the official statistics, 26.”
1:04:04❗️Fakes and “re-education” in Chechnya.
1:08:37 🎥What young men in Chechnya were forced to apologize for.
1:09:52 “Every time we’re told that Putin restored the unity of the Russian Federation, and that unlike in the ‘cursed ’90s,’ the law now truly works and every regional official can be held accountable, remember these unfortunate young men in Chechnya.”
1:12:40❗️A busybody auntie called Pozner a blotting paper.
1:12:40 “Pozner, Mikhalkov, and Solovyov have all served whoever was in power: the Soviet system, the Yeltsin system, and now the Putin system. These people licked the boot, shoving each other aside to get crumbs from the master’s table.”
1:16:10 🎥Solovyov attacks Pozner.
1:20:45❗️This virus is a miracle of miracles.
1:23:50 🎥Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor (Russia’s consumer protection and public health watchdog): “Mortality in Russia is now lower than it was last year.”
1:28:13 “These people are seriously telling us that our healthcare system performed brilliantly, while in the country’s second-largest city a young woman dies of heart failure. She called the hospital, no one came, and doctors said there was nowhere to admit her.”
1:33:30 🎥Medical workers in Khabarovsk did not receive the payments they were promised.
1:39:46❓Do you think a second wave of coronavirus-related fines and restrictions will hit us after the vote?
1:46:54❗️The punishment: 10 years of advertising.
1:47:55 “There’s cheating everywhere: they introduced a system of digital passes, but when I apply for a pass, I can only do it if I agree to receive advertising for 10 years.”
1:54:59❗️A cautionary tale about a former governor.
1:58:00 “In this Putin system of competing lackeys, if you get thrown out, you’re nobody. And when Ignatyev found himself an ordinary citizen, he realized he was nobody.”
2:05:44❗️Vladimir Putin angrily threw a pen.
2:07:00 🎥The week’s “top” story: Putin throws a pen.
2:08:23 “Why did they blow this story up so much? Because his ratings are falling, and they need to come up with something about how tough Putin is: for 20 years he has been building the myth that he is the most indispensable man.”
2:17:42 🎥Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin: “They simply don’t give a damn about the residents!”
2:21:47❓Why is no one talking about the fires in the Russian Far East?
2:24:17❓Why do they want to pass the constitutional amendments right now, even though the presidential election won’t be until 2024?
2:26:20❗️Performers are broke, while the little creep laughs.
2:31:27 “Dear Iosif Prigozhin, the problem is precisely you and your wife Valeriya, because what did you do in the last election? That’s right—you were Vladimir Putin’s official campaign surrogates. So this is what you get from your candidate.”
2:44:06❗️Putin will give Russia a parade.
2:45:03 “All countries are closed, no one is being let in, thousands of people are stranded abroad and living in airports, we can’t bring them back here, and no one is being given any money. But Putin promises to hold a parade.”
3:00:00❗️Brodsky and the country of fences.
3:01:39 🎥St. Petersburg officials paint over a Brodsky graffiti mural.
3:03:53 “I think this perfectly shows what Russian power is, how it is structured, and what it does.”
