Timestamps for yesterday’s broadcast:
00:00 Start of the broadcast.
00:34 Lyubov Sobol live on the program Russia of the Future.
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02:58 News about Alexei Navalny.
05:55 “No one is interested in Sergei Naryshkin. He’s using the Navalny name as clickbait online. If he hadn’t mentioned Navalny, no one would have read or even noticed Naryshkin’s interview.”
08:05 The Sakharov Prize for Navalny.
08:39 Daria Navalnaya’s speech at the Sakharov Prize ceremony: https://youtu.be/K1eaRJoc37g
11:29 “It’s very sad that Muratov is afraid, or simply unwilling, to say the right words — the words that would resonate in Russians’ hearts. But Daria Navalnaya, a young student, hits the mark and says the things that are truly important for our country right now.”
11:58 Putin the “taxi driver.”
14:56 Putin on working as a taxi driver.
17:30 Putin on serving as an artilleryman.
18:43 “Putin doesn’t want to be associated with the ‘bunker grandpa’ image — someone out of touch with real life, sitting in his palaces worth 100 billion rubles (about $1.3 billion), afraid to go out and interact with ordinary people. He says, ‘I’m with the people, I’ve always been with the people.’ That’s complete nonsense and a lie.”
26:12 “Without market conditions and competition, prices go up. And all of that gets passed on to us, the consumers. We buy these products, and we pay the price — for this inefficient state management, for these monopolies, for this cronyism.”
32:26 Years in a penal colony for taking part in elections.
35:03 “Lukashenko plays the role of batka (‘father,’ a paternal strongman image) and claims that without him there would be no Belarus. That’s absolutely not true. There are many impressive, brave, intelligent people who could lead this country. Sergei Tikhanovsky was someone who intended to run for president in a fair election.”
37:18 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on her husband’s sentence.
40:39 Alexei Navalny on Sergei Tikhanovsky.
43:23 The Ingush case.
48:37 “The authorities got scared and started taking revenge. They were frightened that people had come out into the streets. When people protested at Bolotnaya in Moscow (the major 2011–2012 anti-government protests), the authorities loved to joke it off: ‘These are protests by rich people in fur coats, just spoiled Muscovites.’ But here, it was the Ingush who came out.”
50:07 The case against Yuri Zhdanov.
51:10 The case against communist politician Rashkin.
55:54 “Obviously, all this state propaganda is now making a huge issue out of Rashkin’s parliamentary mandate, while ignoring the fact that the State Duma and United Russia only recently allowed the shooting of endangered animals listed in the Red Book (Russia’s official endangered species register).”
56:54 Fired from law enforcement for subscribing to Navalny.
59:28 “It’s no surprise that there are people in the Interior Ministry who genuinely sympathize with us and follow what we say. And not because they need it for their work reports, but because they also want to hear an alternative point of view.”
01:02:18 Osechkin’s new archive.
01:03:47 “Putin absolutely does not care about torture. He stands at the top of this system; he leads it. And when he is asked about torture at the Human Rights Council, he refuses to talk about it.”
01:07:18 QR codes will stay.
01:11:47 “Putin will avoid the topic of QR codes as much as possible; he is very afraid that his approval rating will fall even further. The authorities are afraid even to say the word, because people really dislike it.”
01:17:18 Mizulina, the online snitch.
01:19:03 Mizulina on Morgenshtern.
01:20:33 “Mizulina files denunciations that courts then review and rule on. She has certain levers of pressure and certain powers. But what she says is absolute nonsense.”
01:24:35 Mizulina on the band Agatha Christie, whose lead singer is one of Putin’s official campaign surrogates.
01:31:15 “Yekaterina Mizulina is involved in all this because it’s very profitable. She gets her little grant, her little bit of money from it. On the one hand, she talks about how terrible the West is, and on the other, she funds Western business by buying jewelry.”
01:31:50 The cancellation of stand-up comedian Ruslan Bely’s shows.
01:33:31 Ruslan Bely on the cancellation of his shows.
01:36:28 “There are no rules in this country; there is only Putin. If Putin says Bely’s show can go ahead, it will go ahead; if he says cancel it, it will be canceled. Rules exist in a democratic country. Under an authoritarian regime, there is nowhere you can go to appeal.”
01:43:24 “I don’t give a damn about them”: Martirosyan on why he feels no solidarity with other comedians.
01:49:30 Beglov is failing to cope. Snow chaos in St. Petersburg.
01:49:40 Beglov’s staged phone call.
01:58:14 How the case against Khovansky is being fabricated.
01:59:58 “These witnesses are now claiming they supposedly heard this song performed in 2018 so that the criminal case against Khovansky does not collapse, and so that Yuri can be kept longer in pretrial detention.”
02:07:33 An official’s son was forced to return an apartment.
02:11:35 Putin’s approval rating collapses.
02:13:27 “Putin’s approval rating is falling because people are tired of him. Everyone is sick of him.”
