Timestamps from yesterday's broadcast:
00:00 Start of the broadcast.
00:38 Ruslan Shaveddinov and Kira Yarmysh live on the Russia of the Future program.
02:29 “A judge from the Lefortovo Court will specially travel to the penal colony to hold the hearing and the entire trial there, in the colony with Alexei. It's both absurd and brutally straightforward: ‘You know, man, we’ll come right to your cell and sentence you to 15 years.’”
07:20 We launched the #NavalnyThursday campaign.
09:25 Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova on the off-site court hearing.
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12:40 Putin and the “May decrees” (a set of presidential policy directives issued in 2012).
13:52 “Vladimir Putin has been in power for 22 years, and his United Russia party has been in power for more than 20. We keep hearing about Russia ‘rising from its knees,’ but in the end we see figures like this: 75% of teachers earn less than the minimum wage.”
16:20 Putin says implementing the “May decrees” is a top priority.
17:00 “In our country, teachers are used to rig elections, and they’re paid next to nothing.”
21:07 Fired over Kharms (the Soviet-era writer Daniil Kharms).
24:48 “Putin’s goal is to never let Alexei out. As long as there is someone free who is not afraid of him and openly tells the truth, Putin cannot live, eat, or sleep in peace.”
26:49 124th place in the Democracy Index.
30:17 Serenko’s arrest.
33:54 “All of this is being done for one reason only: so people see a couple of high-profile examples. So they get scared and stop supporting ‘Smart Voting,’ stop posting about it on social media.”
39:11 “None of the people who run prisons, detention centers, and similar institutions are under any illusion that you ended up there because you deserved it. They all understand perfectly well that this is political, that you simply disagree with the authorities. Everyone knows why political prisoners are in jail, but none of the prison staff try to do anything about it.”
42:16 Sex, lies, and video.
49:20 The verdict in the case of the “Kansk teenagers.”
51:09 “Nikita Uvarov was given five years. He is 16 years old, and the FSB sentenced a child to five years in prison over some fabricated terrorist threat.”
54:37 “What does the FSB do in Russia? It poisons Putin’s political opponents, hunts down schoolchildren, or destroys another batch of ‘sanctioned’ cheese (food imports banned under Russia’s counter-sanctions).”
01:01:10 Ilya Yashin’s address.
01:01:34 Yashin gave Kadyrov a direct response to his threats: https://youtu.be/qirqAIvv2S8
01:06:50 “The Kremlin is deliberately and systematically destroying people’s belief that by coming together they are capable of bringing about change. The Kremlin is teaching people helplessness. They tell us these petitions are meaningless, because they want to make sure people do not mobilize and instead just sit quietly and say nothing.”
01:15:00 Morgenshtern’s tattoo.
01:18:15 Morgenshtern on the drug propaganda case.
01:19:47 “The people currently in power in Russia act like saints, saying they are deeply moral people who live truthfully. And they say all young people are rotten, drug addicts, and criminals. But then it turns out that the people in power have countless mistresses, scandals, and ugly stories of their own.”
01:21:20 Putin’s meeting with Macron.
01:25:34 Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons.
01:27:45 “What we see is a boor who is thinly veiling threats of nuclear apocalypse—and this is the president of our country? To me, being a superpower means striving to make the world better and more livable, so that everyone, including yourself, can live comfortably.”
01:28:43 “Like it or not, put up with it, my beauty.”
01:32:07 Putin at the Olympic opening ceremony.
01:40:00 Rigged voting in Novosibirsk.
01:42:48 “This story shows that the authorities are ready to interfere with citizens’ expression of will even at this level. It was just a vote for a symbol of Novosibirsk, and even there they needed not the option endorsed by an independent candidate to win, but their white bear.”
