Timestamps for yesterday’s broadcast:
0:19 On air: Alexei Navalny, or an “American shoelace,” as Gabrelyanov put it.
2:53❗Miracles on Tuesdays.
3:39 “I want to say to all officials in Kalmykia: are you kidding us? The whole country is already laughing at you. You’re just bluntly making it look as if nobody in Kalmykia gets coronavirus on Tuesdays.”
5:47❗Q.E.D.
10:03 🎥A rally in Moscow in defense of Telegram and internet freedom.
10:33 “The state backed down because it always backs down when it faces real resistance,” Navalny says about Telegram being unblocked in Russia.
11:56 ❗Chaos in Belarus.
13:55 “Any authoritarian leader who stays in power for many, many years will sooner or later reach the point where the economy starts falling apart.”
19:30 🎥The video that led to a criminal case being opened against candidate Tikhanovsky.
24:39 🎥Lines of people signing in support of independent candidates in Belarus.
25:22 “There is no reason to hope for fair elections in Belarus. The very act of signing for a candidate has turned into an act of civic courage.”
27:31 🎥Alexander Lukashenko on Alexei Navalny.
28:32 “All these candidates are being jailed lawlessly. It shows how detached the authorities have become, how they’re losing their minds, feeling like a cornered beast, and ready to devour everything around them.”
31:52❗A temple to the god of war.
37:49 🎥The deputy defense minister on Hitler’s cap in the Russian Defense Ministry’s cathedral.
39:13 “All countries have always avoided creating any places that could serve as sites of worship for Hitler. And only in Russia have they made a place where any nutcase can come and, damn it, pray to his Hitler. And it was Putin, Shoigu, and Patriarch Kirill who did it.”
41:27❗A concentration camp for veterans.
45:06 🎥A disinfection tunnel for Putin.
45:43 “To keep Putin from getting infected, these enormous safety measures are needed. But what about everyone else? Those who come, those taking part in the parade, those who go to vote—what about them?”
46:20 🎥Parade rehearsal in Moscow.
47:49 Navalny on the results of a poll about Russians’ attitudes toward the military parade and Victory Day (the holiday marking the Soviet victory in World War II).
51:30 ❗Navalny slandered a veteran.
51:58 🎥The RT video that led to a criminal case being opened against Alexei Navalny.
55:00 “They took an old man—I have not the slightest doubt that he didn’t even understand what he was taking part in—and now they’re exploiting him. And there will be a criminal case, and they’ll come after me.”
1:01:08❓“Alexei, is it true that your approval rating among people aged 40+ is higher than Putin’s?”
1:03:45❗Putin and United Russia are keeping veterans in poverty.
1:06:48 🎥Alexei Navalny on raising pensions for World War II veterans to 200,000 rubles (about US$2,200): https://youtu.be/qog1VmRGc6U
1:09:15 “This is a very vulnerable point for them. Then at every election, at every convenient moment, we should say: ‘Sacredness is all well and good, but what about veterans’ pensions?’”
1:11:33❗To go or not to go?
1:15:27 “The biggest mistake is being sure that everyone understands this vote is about resetting Putin’s term limits to zero. No! In the information space where 60% of our fellow citizens live, the issue of ‘resetting’ isn’t being discussed at all.”
1:19:31 🎥A report on the real coronavirus situation in Tatarstan.
1:24:14 🎥A statement from a member of a local election commission in Novosibirsk.
1:32:12 “In September, 31 regions will have real voting, at real polling stations, with real candidates and observers. Let’s take part there and crush United Russia.”
1:33:06 🎥Sergei Boyko, head of Navalny’s Novosibirsk штаб (campaign office) and a representative of the anti-United Russia coalition, on the upcoming elections.
1:35:29❗Have the amendments come into force?
1:37:37 🎥Ella Pamfilova on the legitimacy of the amendments.
1:42:33 ❗Are the authorities suppressing protest turnout?
1:44:43 “What matters to the authorities is that you show up. The result can be falsified, but faking people’s turnout is very difficult. It’s not about legitimacy—it’s about what Putin wants.”
1:46:11 Navalny uses toy ducks to explain how the “nationwide vote” will be rigged.
1:53:58 🎥 A statement from Golos, the election observers’ movement, in Nizhny Novgorod.
1:54:48 “You can go or not go, but the main thing is: don’t recognize it as valid, and don’t fool yourselves. There are no parallels here, and there can be none, with other elections.”
1:55:46 ❗Is Gnom Gnomych to blame?
1:56:56 🎥A campaign video by figure skater Evgeny Plushenko and his family in support of the amendments.
2:00:28 “Dear Evgeny Plushenko, you are selling out your family and that poor Gnom Gnomych. You took stolen money and are selling out the future of your country and your child.”
2:03:50 🎥The video for which the actor who played Vitaly Nalivkin was arrested.
2:05:23 🎥The project’s creator explains the situation with the actor’s arrest in more detail.
