0:24 On air: Alexei Navalny, or “the man Belarusian border guards made look ridiculous.”
4:09❗Dr. Putin’s vaccine.
5:54 🎥 Putin claimed that Russia was the first to invent a vaccine.
7:42 “We know that dozens of countries are developing a coronavirus vaccine, and Putin’s lie that Russian scientists have tested one and are already ready to use it on a mass scale provoked nothing but laughter.”
9:51 🎥 The Doctors’ Alliance explains why it is unsafe to get this vaccine.
13:26❗The protests over Kushtau.
17:17 🎥 A protest action in defense of Mount Kushtau.
17:55 “Bashkortostan is a completely scrubbed-clean territory: elections are always rigged, the authorities act with total lawlessness, there is a rich and brazen elite making money together with local oligarchs, and now a major protest of nationwide significance is underway there.”
20:03❗Let’s not forget Khabarovsk.
20:45 “Khabarovsk has been marching for 34 days in a row — it’s incredible. The authorities waited for public attention to fade a little. As soon as that happened, several people were arrested and jailed for 15 days.”
25:06 🎥 A staged appeal by schoolchildren to Degtyarev, asking him to keep the yacht.
31:59 🎥 A report on Khabarovsk TV claiming that protest organizers are using children to pad their numbers.
33:23 “They’re spouting nonsense because they have to say something. They have to talk about international forces, because the slogans being heard after 34 days are fairly radical.”
34:17 🎥 The slogan “Putin 2%.”
36:15 “You can’t say this is just young people and schoolchildren, because the scale is too large. Anyone can see that these are completely ordinary people, most often middle-aged. Putin has nothing to say in response, and he clearly doesn’t want to discuss it at all.”
36:56 ❗Long live Belarus.
39:01 🎥 In the city of Smarhon, a serviceman refuses to use force against protesters: “We swore an oath to the people.”
41:19 🎥 Striking BelAZ workers chant “Let them out!” and “OMON, out of the city!”
48:26 “On voting day in Belarus, they shut down the internet. Everything is obvious to everyone: Lukashenko’s real percentage is so low that he doesn’t want any communication between people, and he doesn’t want anyone to see the vote tallies.”
49:48 🎥 Lukashenko says his opponents are not even worthy of repression.
51:13 “They came up with completely repressive laws and took away all rights, but it’s written down on paper! They say: ‘We wrote this, so obey it — and if you don’t, we’ll beat you.’ There is only one answer to that: ‘Go to hell.’”
56:18 🎥 At one polling station, the commission reads out the honest election results.
58:28 🎥 In Vitebsk, a district head forces election commission members to rewrite the official tally.
1:01:30 “The real heroes, the people who deserve the most praise, are those who went out into the streets and called on everyone else to join them. Elections are great, but elections must come with a call to take to the streets — that’s the key point.”
1:06:46 🎥 A strike at the GEFEST plant in Brest.
1:08:42 🎥 A march in Brest on the night after the election.
1:11:29 “Firing rubber bullets at people is a serious step — it happens rarely. It is an emergency measure, but in Belarus they immediately began with mass beatings and the use of force,” Navalny says about the brutality of the security forces.
1:11:59 🎥 Security forces use force on the night after the election.
1:13:23 🎥 OMON riot police detain people in a café.
1:15:56 “For Lukashenko, this was a matter of principle. The key word is ‘blitzkrieg.’ It was important for him to crush everything on the very first night.”
1:21:00 🎥 A demonstrative beating of people in the streets.
1:24:30 🎥 OMON riot police strike passing cars.
1:28:01 🎥 “This does not look like the dispersal of protests — it is genocide against citizens.”
1:30:34 🎥 OMON riot police lower their shields as a sign of support for the protesters.
1:35:48 “It was all presented under the banner of stability. But when your stability is framed by screaming people whose cries can be heard in the next building, nobody wants that.”
1:38:39 ❓Why did opposition leader Tikhanovskaya leave Belarus?
1:44:02 🎥 Tikhanovskaya’s video address from the office of the head of the Central Election Commission.
1:48:23 “She was dealing with monstrous fascists; of course she read that address from a script.”
1:52:15 Alexei Navalny on Russia’s reaction to the situation in Belarus.
1:55:58 🎥 Coverage of the protests on federal TV channels.
2:01:40 🎥 Solovyov criticizes Lukashenko.
2:16:21 “A strike is an important and extremely powerful mechanism that is relatively safe. They’re not shooting at you, but you can choke the regime even faster.”
2:20:38 🎥 The sugar factory where the wave of strikes began.
2:22:20 “And then the strikes started, one after another. What can you do about them? You can bring in OMON, but you can’t make them work.”
2:23:37 🎥 At a meeting at the Khimvolokno plant, workers stand up if they voted for Tikhanovskaya.
2:24:20 “There they are, standing in their work uniforms — Lukashenko always used to say about them, ‘They’re mine.’ And now they’re voting for Tikhanovskaya.”
2:26:56 🎥 BelAZ workers walk out of the workshops in protest.
2:31:43 Navalny on the mass refusals by special forces officers to turn against the people.
2:33:03 🎥 Special forces officers throw away their uniforms.
2:36:56 “They are acting exactly as their conscience, the law, and their oath require.”
2:41:43 🎥 Employees of the Minsk Philharmonic express solidarity with the protesters.
2:48:29 “I very much hope Belarus succeeds. Any success of theirs will also be a tremendous success for us.”
