Timestamps for yesterday’s broadcast:
00:00 Start of the broadcast.
00:44 Ruslan Shaveddinov and Leonid Volkov on the air with the program Russia of the Future.
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03:00 News about Alexei Navalny.
06:40 “This letter contains a very important message. Alexei is saying both to our team and to everyone now fighting this regime: ‘Friends, keep working, do everything you can to make things worse for this regime.’”
09:00 The new State Duma began by violating the Constitution.
12:18 “The symbolism is that the very first action of the State Duma begins with a demonstrative violation of the Constitution. Because this rule—that the first session of the State Duma is opened by its oldest deputy—is not in the chamber’s internal rules, not something made up out of thin air, not a tradition. It is a direct provision of the Russian Constitution, Article 99.”
16:14 “This is a story about a conveyor belt of torture. This is not a one-off phenomenon, it is a system. Hundreds of people have gone through it; hundreds of sadists have tortured hundreds of prisoners.”
19:27 “United Russia deputies voted against a parliamentary investigation into torture. We can now officially say: United Russia supports torture in Russian penal colonies.”
26:06 The detention of Rakova and Zuev.
29:27 “Within hours of Zuev’s arrest, a thousand students, alumni, and faculty members organized themselves, started writing everywhere, and began building public attention around the case.”
33:05 The Nobel Prize and journalists being designated as “foreign agents” (a Russian legal label for individuals or organizations receiving foreign support and deemed politically active).
37:17 “Worthy things should be encouraged, unworthy things should be criticized—that is completely normal. Obviously, the Nobel Prize is awarded for worthy things, and this one is absolutely deserved.”
37:42 Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, received the Nobel Peace Prize.
41:46 “Every week, the Justice Ministry publishes a registry that keeps expanding with new worthy journalists who are being punished solely for their work.”
45:43 Rising coronavirus case numbers.
46:55 “They can keep telling us on television all they want about how great Putin is, but people still are not going to get vaccinated.”
49:42 The “sanitary case” continues.
51:52 Russia and the internet.
55:20 “Putin is moving toward finally breaking the internet, because he is very afraid of it. He dislikes any space for free thought that is not under his control.”
59:16 Rosfinmonitoring proposed blocking the accounts of people connected to organizing unauthorized rallies.
01:06:27 Moscow City Hall decided to add the ability to track people’s routes and identify their companions to its facial recognition system.
01:08:35 Refusal to open a criminal case over the beating.
01:11:12 “Someone beats someone up in the metro, a guy steps in, and the guy gets 2 million rubles in compensation. But when cops beat up a member of our штаб (campaign office/team), nothing happens to them—they’re allowed to do it.”
01:11:58 Putin’s speech and Poklonskaya’s appointment as ambassador.
01:12:47 Putin warns against breaking the law.
01:16:22 Putin once again avoided mentioning Navalny by name, but told many lies instead.
01:20:20 Putin and lies about the media.
01:25:11 “Poklonskaya will no longer be a deputy in the State Duma; she will be ambassador to Cape Verde. The point is simply to get rid of her, to send somewhere far away a person with no diplomatic education and no relevant qualifications whatsoever.”
01:29:00 Putin delivered lofty remarks about traditional values and the importance of marriage.
01:32:10 Answers to questions.
