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Hi. This is Navalny.
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Hello, Digital Resistance.
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Thank you.
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Pasha Durov,
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for calling this resistance.
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Because resistance is when you act.
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When you do something, when you don’t stay silent,
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when you feel like you’re being crushed,
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and you don’t just lie on the ground or sit in an armchair.
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You resist. Are you ready to resist?
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Yes!
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One phrase
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keeps ringing in my head constantly,
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when I see what is happening in our country, when I hear
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what is happening in our country every day from morning to night.
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You turn on the TV, watch the news, and in my head there is this
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phrase.
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Putin is a dickhead.
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That too. That’s the second phrase.
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But the first phrase I hear is:
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I will not put up with this,
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I will not put up with this silently.
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I turn on the TV, and the news tells me
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that some guys with huge fat faces
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have suddenly decided, for some reason, that they should have
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the right to read everything I write on Telegram.
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That is their official state position.
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We are the authorities.
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These buses are guarding us.
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So we have the right
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to read everything you write.
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Will you put up with it?
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I am not going to put up with it.
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There are people I don’t know at all.
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But I read in the news
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that someone, somewhere, was jailed for a like.
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I don’t know him, I don’t know what he wrote.
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I will never see his crying relatives in court.
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I will never cross paths with that person.
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But I sit in my apartment, relatively free.
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And I say: I will not put up with this.
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Will you put up with it?
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We live in Moscow,
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a rich city, supposedly, right.
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But I know that our country is impoverished,
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truly a poor country,
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where no one has any prospects.
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The only sector that has developed in recent years on its own,
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without the state, without subsidies,
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without transfers, without all that—the internet.
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Right?
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And now these people say: in your internet
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you are behaving badly, so we are creating your internet for you.
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I will not support this,
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I will not put up with it.
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Will you put up with it?
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Against the backdrop of all this,
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officials from city hall somehow
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have seen their incomes grow by 128% in a year.
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Why?
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I can’t repeat it.
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They steal.
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They are thieves and crooks. And
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crooks,
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crooks.
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Am I ready to tolerate
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my beloved country being ruled by crooks and thieves?
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That is why I will resist.
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That is why we will resist, right?
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Every day.
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Wake up, wash up, have breakfast.
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Or even before breakfast, sit down
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and think: what can I do today
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to make things worse for this government and better for the people?
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Agreed? Yes.
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That’s how we must act every day.
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Do something to make things worse for them.
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Do something to make things better for the people,
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to weaken this, to weaken this government,
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because this is no longer even an authoritarian democracy.
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This is a monarchy, isn’t it?
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They have seized all power,
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they have seized all power.
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They killed from above, and now they sit here.
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It is a hereditary monarchy.
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They think their children will rule over you.
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Are we ready
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to tolerate that?
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I will not forget for a second that I am not prepared to tolerate it.
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When those terrorists tell me
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I will turn it on
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and hear the phrase
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from Alexei
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You know that right now our country
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is a monarchy, Russia is ruled by a tsar.
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I will say straight to the screen: help me.
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Yes. A king.
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Down with him!
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They talk about it.
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Regarding it.
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At this romantic moment I would leave the stage under escort,
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but these police officers are looking at me sternly,
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because when I came in here,
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and then twice more out on the square, they came up to me with a paper from the prosecutor’s office.
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They told me, Alexei,
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under no circumstances, not under any conditions.
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I am calling for May...
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How could I possibly urge you
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with these epaulettes watching?
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Look, those handsome gold badges—those are serious police officers.
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So
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first I want to ask you: are you going to the rally on May 5?
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Yes, May 5.
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Well, what will it be like?
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It is called
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which street,
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which street?
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Don’t you want to?
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Because if you go, the authorities
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will see that many people are against corruption—so don’t go.
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If you go, they will see
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that even despite the ban, people are coming out against censorship.
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Will you go out against the blocking? Yes.
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I’m trying to persuade them, but they won’t listen.
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Let’s try one more time.
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Please, don’t go
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and don’t shout.
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Apparently, he...
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because you might suddenly say that.
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Oh! How?
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I do.
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Is Putin right about you?
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An uncontrollable, unconstructive position.
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Don't go, because there's a tsar.
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If they come after you, will people take to the streets?
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Will you go?
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May 5, Tverskaya 14.
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Russia will be. Free.
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About the tsar.