Timestamps from yesterday’s broadcast:
00:23 On air: Alexei Navalny, or “the man who joined in destabilizing the regime in Belarus.”
3:20❗They created it themselves, and then condemned it themselves.
4:15 “Today the court answered the question: ‘If you cut a person into pieces and force them to confess to something, will that be treated as the queen of evidence, and does that work in a Russian court?’ Yes, it works perfectly.”
10:13❓Why register at https://votesmart.appspot.com?
15:05❗The “Beirut to Khabarovsk” explosion.
15:38 🎥 Footage of the explosion in Beirut.
17:12 “This is what happens when politically motivated decisions overtake or replace professional management. Components for explosives are stored for a year together with a fireworks warehouse in the port.”
21:22❗We’ve been laundering your money for over a year now.
22:01 “Over the entire period, more than 300 searches have been carried out, 141 investigators from the Investigative Committee are working on the case across 45 regions, and 248 accounts have been frozen.”
24:00 🎥 A clip from one of the searches at the ACF office.
28:19 “Why does Smart Voting work? At most, 20% of people will turn out to vote. With turnout that low, if 3% of people take part in Smart Voting, that already becomes 15%, and we are practically guaranteeing the candidate a victory over the United Russia candidate,” Navalny says about how Smart Voting works and why it is important to take part.
30:50❗We’ve shown this before.
32:02 🎥 The search and raid on the home of United Russia member Alexei Grishin.
35:36 🎥 A clip from ACF’s 2016 investigation into Merkushkin, the former governor of Mordovia: https://youtu.be/VY9Ph9OvBYk
36:51 “You rushed into his palace, but why aren’t you looking at the other palaces? There’s Merkushkin, and all the others—it’s the same there, the same officials with the same Mercedes cars and art galleries. The security forces raided one house and are pretending the rest are on the Moon.”
41:09❗Guys, don’t believe in my billions.
41:47 🎥 Patriarch Kirill urges people not to believe in his billions.
43:57 “It’s great that he’s making excuses. That means he really does feel pressure from the people, pressure from the large Orthodox community. The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church absolutely needs to be called out on this and have attention drawn to it.”
45:01 🎥 “It was you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, who corrected the terrible crookedness of our history.”
46:52❗Russians are getting richer.
47:26 🎥 News anchor Alexandra Novikova laughed while reporting on the indexation of benefits for veterans and people with disabilities.
49:03 “She can be congratulated on no longer being an anchor at GTRK Kamchatka, because she organized a rally in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in support of Furgal. She was fired from a corrupt TV channel—and thank God for that.”
50:20 “Poverty and destitution—those are the two words that describe both the Russian people and the state of the Russian economy. This is a giant oil-producing country, and yet the median salary in 2020 is 34,500 rubles (about $470 at the time). That is absolutely not what our country deserves. Until the government changes, there will be no positive change.”
53:48❗Khabarovsk is still holding out.
55:16 🎥 “We’re walking through puddles, we don’t need Putin”—a new slogan from protesters in Khabarovsk.
57:29 🎥 Degtyaryov says the tractors at the factory appeared thanks to Putin.
58:27 “Those tractors were bought with tax money, including taxes paid by the people who live and work in Khabarovsk Krai. You’d think Degtyaryov would keep quiet so as not to anger people, but apparently he’s very confident in his position.”
59:31 🎥 Degtyaryov lies about where his house in the Moscow suburbs came from.
1:03:05 🎥 Georgy Alburov caught Degtyaryov in a lie: https://youtu.be/ZJ0X-yii5Yg
1:08:20❓What should the people of Khabarovsk do next?
1:13:31❗Putin is afraid of you.
1:14:26 “Putin understands that if there is a people’s candidate in Arkhangelsk Oblast, he will win 100%, he will beat any United Russia candidate there, and so they are removing him from the election.”
1:17:00 🎥 Yevgeny Karpov, coordinator of Navalny’s Voronezh штаб, explains how he was removed from the election.
1:19:45❗Belarus on the eve of the showdown.
1:21:13 🎥 Observers in Belarus have to monitor early voting through binoculars from behind a fence.
1:24:14 🎥 Lukashenko’s address to parliament and the Belarusian people.
1:25:44 “This whole gang of crooks from the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), who seized power after the collapse of the USSR and declared themselves presidents—whether in Russia, Belarus, or Turkmenistan—say exactly the same thing.”
1:27:46 🎥 A two-minute ovation after Lukashenko’s speech.
1:29:49 “Everyone understands this is absurd. People are against it, people are getting poorer, nobody wants it, and Lukashenko just keeps pushing ahead.”
1:31:14 🎥 A statement by Belarus’s interior minister.
1:35:10 🎥 A rally in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
1:36:49 🎥 Belarusian security forces in Soligorsk detain people ahead of a rally.
1:37:03 “An island of stability, the best country in Eurasia? Seriously? If you have the best country, do you really need to drag someone away like this with your faces covered?”
1:39:43 🎥 At a rally in Minsk, sound engineers played Tsoi’s song “Changes.”
