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Of course, I am satisfied with the verdict right now, and

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I believe the victory is ours, and this is

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a precedent that will have far-reaching

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consequences in the future.

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What

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will you be filing?

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It’s just that there are people here too.

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It has not yet entered into legal force; it will

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be appealed, and accordingly it cannot

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serve as grounds, logically, for

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choosing or changing a preventive measure.

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I would like to say to my family

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exclusively through my lawyers, because

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I am only allowed to communicate with them, which

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it is clear that today’s decision is very

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strange, and this United Russia (the ruling political party) junkie

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is costing all of us suspiciously dearly.

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But it is absolutely clear to me that this is simply

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yet another step aimed at

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trying to drive us into some corner. This

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is forbidden, that is forbidden—they put me under house

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arrest, but recordings still keep appearing,

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there are fines over recordings at night, and so on.

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So I would like to tell you, and through

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you tell everyone, that if someone thinks

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that this United Russia junkie, or anyone else,

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can make the Anti-Corruption Foundation or me or us

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stop publishing investigations,

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that is not going to happen. In the near future we

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will, incidentally, publish a couple more

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investigations. We will not stop our work,

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and we will not stay silent about

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anything; among other things, we will not

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stay silent about what was done to Oleg today.

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Today we have already published documents that

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clearly show that this case

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is completely fabricated. The company Yves

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Rocher itself stated that there was no damage,

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no claims whatsoever. Nevertheless, the case

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continues, even after this statement

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by Yves Rocher. I have nothing more to say to the judges

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for now, but still, I think we will

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say something. That is essentially all I

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wanted to tell you, my dear lawyers.

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Thank you very much to everyone who supports me.

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Please pass on my great thanks

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to everyone who supports me, of course.

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We will definitely appeal all of these

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decisions, because after the victory

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of the forces of good, we will overturn all these decisions, and

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we will punish all the judges. Thank you.

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Anyone who is involved in the kind of work

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that I and my colleagues at the Anti-Corruption Foundation

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are engaged in—they

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must unfortunately, in the conditions of

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Russia, be prepared for the fact that they may

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end up in custody. There is nothing

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unusual about that; it is not some amusing part of our

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work.

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But nevertheless,

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this verdict records the fact that he

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went online on March 5, and

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theoretically they can ask to change

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the preventive measure; the grounds and basis of an already entered-into-force

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verdict can be used to change the preventive measure

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within the framework of the Yves Rocher case and the Kirovles case.

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A review in the Kirovles case cannot be

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carried out, but the inspectorate can file

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a motion to replace a suspended sentence with a real one,

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that is, there the punishment is in the Kirovles case, while

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here it is a preventive measure.

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