Timestamps from yesterday’s broadcast:
00:00 Start of the broadcast.
00:40 Kira Yarmysh and Georgy Alburov live on the Russia of the Future program.
01:36 Kira Yarmysh on the “sanitary case” (a politically charged criminal case tied to alleged COVID rule violations).
05:46❗Repression in Belarus.
06:21 “The length of the sentence means nothing. It’s the same with Alexei: he’s been given 2.5 years now, but we all understand perfectly well that they can extend that sentence at any moment by inventing new criminal charges. Our task, and the task of people in Belarus, is to resist as actively as possible a regime that is unlawfully keeping people in prison.”
08:15 🎥 Maria Kolesnikova and Maksim Znak in the courtroom as the verdict is announced.
11:35❗Ella and the three Borises.
13:22 “They take real, living people and force them to change their names, change their clothes, and alter their appearance somehow, then put them on campaign posters so that people coming to vote won’t understand who they’re actually supposed to mark on the ballot.”
16:12 🎥 Pamfilova promised to look into the use of spoiler lookalike candidates in the election.
17:59❗The scam of the century: why Putin needs electronic voting.
19:04 “You’re literally dropping a slip of paper into a black box, and what comes out is a completely random result, unrelated to your slip in any way, but exactly the one the authorities want. That’s the essence of electronic voting.”
22:00 “If you need an infallible indicator of whether electronic voting is good or bad, just remember that Margarita Simonyan supported electronic voting and said it was a wonderful idea.”
22:35❗Sheep farmers from Dagestan against “Smart Voting.”
27:36 “The state origin of this story is obvious from two things: first, how quickly they registered the trademark, and second, how quickly a Russian court imposed interim measures to block ‘Smart Voting.’”
30:17 Sign up and take part in “Smart Voting”: https://votesmart.appspot.com
32:20 Support us and our work by becoming a channel sponsor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxTPTFbIbCWfTR9I2-5SeQ/join
33:46❗Vote-buying.
35:19 🎥 Vladimir Putin on payments to pensioners and security personnel.
39:08❗The ministry of PR and Putin’s leisure time.
40:53 “There shouldn’t be many deaths in the army, but there were deaths in the Russian army. Shoigu’s entourage blocked the release of statistics on how many people die in the military.”
46:59 “Shoigu simply wants people to write well about him and never write anything bad. He wants his approval rating to stay strong and stable. That’s all he cares about: not the army, not its combat readiness, not people’s lives, and not the conditions soldiers are living in.”
48:20 🎥 Putin and Shoigu in the taiga (the vast northern forest).
52:25❗Beauty and the beast.
55:17 🎥 Alexei Navalny defends Maria Butina.
57:46 🎥 From kept woman to lawmaker: the shameful path of Maria Butina: https://youtu.be/0cxCysltIoY
59:15 🎥 Maria Butina and Paul Erickson.
01:04:33 🎥 The singing deputy from Kirov Region.
01:06:09 🎥 Russia’s most handsome deputy.
01:09:12❗She’s had her turn in the air: exposing Tereshkova.
01:10:06 “No matter who came to occupy the top post, no matter which party was in power, Valentina Tereshkova always adapted, pleased everyone, praised everyone, and thanked them profusely.”
01:16:07 “I really want as many people as possible to sign up for ‘Smart Voting,’ so that we can truly get revenge on United Russia in this election.”
