Timestamps for yesterday’s broadcast:
00:00 Start of the broadcast.
00:39 Kira Yarmysh and Georgy Alburov on the air with the program Russia of the Future.
02:33 “Penal Colony No. 2, where Alexei is being held, is, you could say, notorious for categorically refusing long family visits to prisoners, no matter how much they ask. It’s a method of pressure, and it is illegal.”
06:36 “You cannot retroactively declare someone an extremist. She had no way of knowing this was an ‘extremist organization.’ Taxes were paid, the office rent was paid, everything was done openly. And now Lilia Chanysheva is sitting in pretrial detention.”
11:54 🎥 Lawyer Vladimir Voronin on Lilia Chanysheva’s case.
19:05 To write a letter to Lilia Chanysheva: Federal State Institution SIZO-1 (pretrial detention center), Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Bashkortostan, 450015, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, 39 Dostoevsky St., Chanysheva L.A., born 1982.
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20:58❗The liquidation of Memorial (the Russian human rights organization).
23:16 “Even if you are simply talking about past repressions, the current state already sees you as an enemy, and you must be eliminated.”
25:20❗How a priest was exiled to a monastery for supporting Navalny.
25:59 🎥 A priest on being sent to a monastery in exile.
28:00❗Actors being denied roles.
29:29 🎥 Pavel Derevyanko in support of Navalny.
32:18 “Censorship is monstrous. But self-censorship is probably much worse. Because you can fight censorship from the outside, but self-censorship is inside you. You gradually slide into this world where it seems to you that you can’t say this, can’t say that, because you’re afraid something might happen.”
36:00❗New all-time lows.
37:07 “The authorities bear full responsibility for the fact that people in Russia are flatly refusing to get vaccinated, because they have done everything possible to make sure no one trusts these vaccines.”
41:55 “No one believes the state will use QR codes in a genuinely honest way. Everyone thinks the Russian state can use them only for a new wave of repression. No one is discussing whether they are useful or not useful in fighting coronavirus. That is the reputation of the Russian state.”
44:00❗ACF poll: https://navalny.com/p/6564
49:03 “If election results used to be a kind of exaggerated reality, where United Russia was shown as slightly bigger and the other parties as slightly smaller, now election results are an upside-down reality. All elections in Russia are an upside-down reality.”
50:36❗Poklonskaya’s apartment and a symbol of the ‘Crimean Spring’ (the pro-Kremlin term for Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea).
52:15 🎥 Poklonskaya complains that she has neither an apartment nor a house.
55:04 “Russian officials have effectively built a state within a state for themselves. They assign apartments to themselves, they build palaces for themselves where they live behind enormous fences, and they build casinos there, even though gambling is banned in most of Russia. They have their own terminal at Vnukovo Airport, which they use for their flights. They have absolutely no contact with the general public.”
55:30❗SOGAZ’s secret clinic.
57:17 🎥 Journalist Sergey Dobrynin on the investigation into SOGAZ’s secret clinic.
01:06:50 “A young man in Tomsk tricked his way into a hospital’s red zone and spent three days caring for his grandmother there, because the hospital simply had neither the staff nor the resources to care for her properly. That is what happens to ordinary people in Tomsk, while in Moscow hospitals for officials, in one place you eat red caviar worth 13 million rubles, and in another, girls are being vetted who later turn out to be escorts.”
01:08:00 Answers to questions.
