An episode from the film The Term. Alexei Navalny at Russian Flag Day
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What? Red or white?
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White. White.
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So, what kind of white one should we get then
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to buy?
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No. These ones.
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We could get this thing here.
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How many people do we have?
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Six for each person. Six. Give me
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six of these, please.
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There.
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Here are the two fearsome tools
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of our struggle: an iPad and an iPhone. No, there's also
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a third tool. The third tool is
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Yota internet.
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And crutches too, so we can
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give someone a beating later.
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Unfortunately, there's no signal in Khimki. Right now we're
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driving along—no phone service, no internet,
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so it will of course be difficult for Chirikova,
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but I think we'll definitely push through and
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win this election.
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The authorities have gone with a tightening-the-screws
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scenario, but people won't put up with it
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for long. I think in a year and a half to two years we'll
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see a split within the elite that will
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bury this whole system. I can already
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feel it; I can already sense these moods in the State Duma
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because there are a lot of
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decent United Russia deputies there
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who came in and do not want to be executioners.
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Yes, they sat silently; yes, they voted
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for
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the wrong laws there, from our point of view,
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and now they are being forced to move from one
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state—as quiet, silent people—into
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the role of executioners, to become executioners. Many
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are not ready for that. Many are not ready.
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Many understand how this could end
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for them. I speak with deputies
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from United Russia. They speak about the authorities
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in the third person: "they." They don't say, "we." They
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say, "they decided so." Well, they need to
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be told that this is wrong.
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Well, that's their point of view. This is what
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deputies from the United Russia
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faction are saying. In the coming years we will see
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a struggle within the elite. It is completely
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obvious.
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And many dictators in our country have ended
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badly. And they ended badly not
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because they were overthrown, but because
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their own people understood that their so-called national leader
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was dragging them down. He becomes
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a liability to everyone. Everyone wants to be
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part of the global elite. Everyone wants
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to travel to the United States and Europe. They—officials—have
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children there, bank accounts there,
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you know. And now the threat of
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the Magnitsky List has already
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appeared on the horizon. I think that sooner
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or later that list will be approved.
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Therefore,
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considering how much real estate they have bought there
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and how much money they have abroad,
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I think they simply will not allow
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this slide into some kind of dictatorship
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to happen. It won't happen. As
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Gandhi said, first they ignore you,
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then
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they laugh at you, then they fight you, and
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then you win. So we are already at
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the third stage.
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We have practically passed the stage when they
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fight us. Now comes the stage when we
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win. I think it will be soon,
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within the next two years. That's how it seems to me.
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The wreath-laying is here, but the rally won't be here, right?
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The rally isn't here. Here, this is for you.
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Listen, can you carry it for now?
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Sure. Okay, go on, go on.
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Alright, guys, take them.
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Come on, come on.
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Two for you,
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two for you. These are for me and Dima. Let's go.
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No, Lyokha. What about you? You were detained too. And
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a little bit
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how many? 97 people, right, that's what it came to
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Let us through,
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come on, forward.
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Okay, the disabled person and their escort,
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please.
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Give me
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Dima, we'll get through now
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Mr. Navalny,
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please, guys,
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I won't create a jam here,
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thank you. Alexei, one day after the Pussy Riot trial,
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what can you say about the state of democracy in
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Russia right now?
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Democracy does not exist in Russia, unfortunately.
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And we saw that
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the Pussy Riot trial symbolized
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the final destruction of judicial
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institutions. Russia has not been
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a democratic country for a long time. Well,
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the Pussy Riot trial simply
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demonstrated some things that should have been obvious.
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To everyone who may previously have had some
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doubts. Well, this probably isn't a very good place
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to stand.
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Alexei!
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other citizens. Move to
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the opposite side.