A chance meeting between turner Valery Trapeznikov and Alexei Navalny
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No, I am involved.
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My letter regarding Yakunin.
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Well, you see.
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I specifically wrote that I have...
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It got through. My letter to you.
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I wrote a separate letter,
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because when he speaks, he addresses the workers of Uralvagonzavod and so on.
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I am presenting Yakunin's corruption scheme, and I want you to raise
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this issue in the State Duma. Where does Yakunin get it from? You speak on behalf of the workers.
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Well, Yakunin knows these workers.
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I agree with you, but I represent Perm Krai, and I have nothing to do with Uralvagonzavod.
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What difference does that make?
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Russian Railways is Russian Railways, and everything else is secondary.
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How much does a ticket from Moscow to Perm cost?
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Well...
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It's expensive.
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3,800.
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What class is that? No, that's a compartment car.
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What kind of compartment ticket to Kirov are we even talking about?
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A branded train.
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Workers travel like ordinary people.
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In any case, there is Russian Railways, where 1,000,000 workers are employed.
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But I'm not Chaika (former Prosecutor General), not Bastrykin (head of the Investigative Committee).
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You are a State Duma deputy, a member of the ruling party, and a leader.
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Come on, I have the facts, the facts.
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I prepared a letter for you, I brought you a diagram this big.
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I am not in
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your office, the State Duma, right now.
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Vacation for an overreaching head of the Russian Federation Code.
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I have always fought for human rights.
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A deputy has no right to prosecute me.
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A State Duma deputy, a representative of the workers, cannot be on
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vacation.
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Because workers' rights are not just workers' rights.
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I am supposed to rest.
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Yakunin, without vacations and without rest, is robbing all these workers.
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Because he is not complying with the labor agreement with the Russian
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Federation. Please. Excellent.
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But we must live by the law. That's how it should be.
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No problem. Here, look at the diagram.
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A diagram of Yakunin's business empire and his family's.
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Here is Yakunin, his two sons, and his wife,
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they organized an entire chain of offshore companies,
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to rob the workers you talk about at rallies.
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Yes, I am sending this diagram officially.
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Why didn't you write to Chaika (former Prosecutor General)?
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I wrote to Chaika, to Putin. It's a nightmare!
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Everyone is staying silent already.
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That is why I am writing to you separately,
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because I hope you will make some use of this separately.
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All right, fine, agreed. I will wait for your official response.
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Only on September 1.
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Until September 1, I am working and...
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They will have re-registered all their offshore companies by then. Seriously?
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Can workers' rights really wait until September 1?
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To keep robbing them?
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You understand, I have worked all my life, I am entitled to a vacation, I have to work.
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Do you journalists work?
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Are you telling me now that I defend workers' rights from four to seven,
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and as for families, I have rights too.
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As for the workers, I need to go once again
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to the library, do some reading, watch Ksenia Sobchak, the program about me.
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Actually, look.
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Let's be serious, no jokes.
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We have uncovered an offshore scheme.
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I am defending this, and for me this is very important as a State Duma deputy.
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Therefore, within your authority, I ask that you raise the issue
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of an investigation and of resignation.
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So, write to me; I promised, but I have not received it.
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I still haven't received it.
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Write to the State Duma deputy, though for some reason to me.
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Unfortunately, you are officially registered in Moscow.
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Why are you making this a federal matter?
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But we work by region.
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But in principle, I am ready to answer your question.
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I will send it on behalf of...
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Look, there is simply an important point here.
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I believe that I must defend workers' rights.
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As a lawyer, I defend the rights of every worker, and every non-worker too.
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His rights, and the rights of all these people.
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We have an understanding, we will come to an agreement.
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Once again,
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I can say that
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worker and representative of workers' interests Trapeznikov together with me
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is fighting with me. That will never happen.
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Send me a parliamentary inquiry, and I will read it carefully, review it,
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consider what you are saying. I will check it.
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And then the inquiry.
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I thought the labor movement could not be like this.
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I fought employers this way; otherwise they cannot be beaten.
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Sometimes you can only hit straight into the wall.
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I am speaking plainly: how is one supposed to fight Yakunin and his corruption like a slave?
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Let's start from the beginning. Of course, one must fight in general.
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I believe that fighting corruption is the main task of my President of Russia.
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And we will defeat corruption.
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Don't worry, I...
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I am ready to become the President of Russia, with whom you will fight together.
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You will be the president. Of Russia.
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I won these elections in a free vote,
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and a Free Russia, with your efforts, will definitely support me.
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Seriously, we will never support you, because you are not an industrialist,
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and we need to revive industry.
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And a lawyer as president, of course...
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I am telling you that there is no industry left at all,
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and all of this industry has been sold off and carved up.
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And you do not know.
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You know, I don't know, I can't.
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I mind my own business.
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We have nothing to talk about. Agreed?
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You make a lovely couple, I take my hat off to you.
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Yashin is taller than I am, and he has a beautiful wife.
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Thank you, I will pass that on.
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Yes, a worker.
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