The weekly news and analysis program "Vesti Nedeli" on the Rossiya TV channel.
http://youtu.be/6QD4kaxHGeI (tip from Davydov) All in all, the President’s Address is not just what he says at a specific time in a specific place; it is also what is happening in the country. Putin did not mention the string of criminal corruption cases, but: the defense minister has been fired; investigators are unraveling "Oboronservis"; "Rosagroleasing" is facing a criminal case involving billions of rubles; St. Petersburg utility officials—underground billionaires—have been hauled to Moscow; and searches were carried out in the case involving fraud and money laundering by the Navalny brothers. Serdyukov, Agroleasing, the Navalny brothers. A perfect match.
And somehow I missed this. This “TV host,” Dmitry Kiselyov—wasn’t he always considered one of the “relatively respectable” ones? Or is that outdated information? When I looked at his face, my association was: “a crook, but gazing plaintively into the camera because he thinks of himself as a European and likes drinking coffee in Vienna.” Apparently that phase is long gone. Did they catch him in some pedophilia scandal or something, so now he’s working it off? I don’t know how else to explain such zeal, because later in the program he also said that “Magnitsky stole 5 billion rubles.” Today I was at the Investigative Committee. At last they officially informed me that another criminal case has been opened against me. So now I’m under two separate travel restrictions. This time, though, it’s only Moscow, not the surrounding region. The enemies are closing in. The general idea of the new case is this: Navalny was a founder of a company that was a founder of a company that provided transport services “at a disproportionately high, knowingly inflated price,” while my other relatives were supposedly engaged in laundering that money. On that basis, the entire revenue for three years has been declared the “amount stolen.” The case is astonishing, and it seemed to me that even the investigator felt a little awkward. It opens up magnificent prospects for criminal cases against more expensive stores selling goods at “knowingly inflated prices” compared with neighboring shops. Poor Azbuka Vkusa (a premium Russian supermarket chain)—how will it explain prices like that? And any subcontract is theft too. If you are, for example, a management company that won a tender and hired subcontractors, that’s it: fraud. And all profit is money laundering. Most importantly, some rather piquant details have emerged. The case was opened on December 13, absolutely for certain, after the meeting between Putin and Bastrykin, on the basis of a complaint and a report submitted to the investigator, both received on the same day—December 10. That was exactly the day when, as you may recall, I announced that the December 15 rally would take place at Lubyanka, regardless of whether City Hall “authorized” it. Now that is unheard-of speed. To untangle such a knot of criminal acts and financial transactions over three years in such a short time. Although, one has to bear in mind that the best forces have been thrown into the fight against especially dangerous fraudsters and money launderers. This time the investigative team on the case includes 9 (nine) investigators, 5 (five) of them assigned to especially important cases. The FSB is providing operational support to the investigation. The sinister crime is practically solved, since they are already set to charge me on Wednesday or Thursday. I’ll read it and then write in more detail.