Alexei Navalny speaking at a rally on Pushkin Square in Moscow
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Yesterday was a hard day.
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I've heard that many people were disappointed.
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>> Is there any room for disappointment?
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>> Did you really expect this gang of
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crooks and thieves to do anything different? No.
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>> Did we expect anything other than
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fraud and theft?
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>> No.
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For 12 years, every day, these people have smirked
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at us from our screens and said: "We will
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rob you, steal from you, and
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cheat you." And yesterday they did it yet
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again. They robbed us,
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>> but all they did was give us another reason to repeat
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what I and many others
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said on December 5 at Chistye Prudy (a public square in Moscow).
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Who holds power here?
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>> Who holds power here?
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>> Who holds power here?
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>> Is there any legitimate authority sitting in
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the State Duma? No.
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>> Is there any legitimate authority in the Kremlin?
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>> No.
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>> Who holds power here? We do.
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>> We are the power here. We do not claim
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a monopoly on it, but we are the people, we have
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votes, and to the extent of our votes
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we are the power here. We are the power here.
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You,
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>> I hope those deeply
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sick people heard this. They suffer from a grave
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illness called bulimia. You
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know, that's a person who is always
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hungry. He eats breakfast and is still hungry.
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He eats lunch and is still hungry. He eats dinner
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and tomorrow's dinner too, and he is still hungry. He has devoured
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the oil, he has gobbled up the gas. He has swallowed
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the pipelines and the roads and the railway
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stations. And he is still hungry. He keeps gobbling, gobbling, and
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gobbling.
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They will never stop. They cannot
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stop on their own.
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Who will stop these people?
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Who will stop these people? We will.
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>> We will take pity on them and save them. Those who cannot,
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we will teach. Those who do not want to,
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we will make live by the law, because
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we are the power here.
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>> We are the power here. We are the power here. We
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are the power here. We are here
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we are here.
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We are here
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we are here.
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>> Everyone is asking,
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we will teach freedom,
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>> whether we will win, when it will happen, and
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what needs to be done. I have two words
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that answer all these questions. They are
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truth and faith.
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We know the truth about this government. We
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know that it is a government of crooks and thieves.
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>> We slightly overestimated our strength. We
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thought that everything we know was known
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to the rest of the country as well.
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Starting tomorrow, we will create
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a universal propaganda machine,
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>> that will work no worse than
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Channel One (Russia's main state TV channel),
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but instead of stupefying people, it will
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tell the truth.
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Starting tomorrow, thousands of people will tell
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the truth about the government of crooks and thieves to 50 million
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people.
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In six months,
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we will make sure that every citizen
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of Russia living in a small town
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will, at the word oil, think of the crook
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and Putin's associate Timchenko, who steals
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billions and lives in Switzerland,
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adorned with our money.
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At the word gas, everyone will think of
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Putin's cronies, the Kovalchuks and
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the Rotenbergs, latched onto Gazprom.
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>> At the word prosecutor's office,
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everyone will think of the son
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of Prosecutor General Chaika, implicated in
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illegal gambling and now being
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covered for by the entire prosecutor's office.
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And at the word Putin,
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everyone will think of a simple three-letter
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word.
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It's the second word that came into your
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head.
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Putin
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>> is a thief
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>> Putin
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>> is a thief
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>> Putin
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>> is a thief
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>> Putin is a thief
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a thief
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>> Putin is a thief
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>> Putin is a thief, Putin is a thief, Putin is a thief, Putin is a th-
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Putin th- Putin th- Putin out
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will
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>> faith
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we know the truth. We are confident that we are
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right, and we know that we will win.
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The crooks in the Kremlin think that we will get tired
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of taking to the streets.
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>> Will we get tired of it?
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>> Yes or no?
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>> No.
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>> Yes or no?
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>> No.
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>> They think this will stop being
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fashionable and stop being cool, that we will
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get tired of writing funny slogans.
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>> They think we will get tired of jokes about
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hamsters, and so on.
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>> We don't care about slogans and jokes.
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>> We believe that sooner
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or later we will achieve our goal.
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We will not get tired of taking to the streets, because
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we have a conscience and a sense
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of dignity.
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We will not get tired of having a conscience.
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>> We are beginning preparations for the protest.
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We call on all citizens to engage in peaceful
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acts of civil disobedience.
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>> We will take to the streets of Moscow, we will occupy
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the streets and squares, and we will not leave.
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>> I want to feel your determination.
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>> Will we leave or not?
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>> Will we be afraid or not? No. Will we get tired of this
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or not?
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>> From the city of Piter (St. Petersburg), I brought a slogan
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that some of you may have
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heard,
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but here, much closer to the Kremlin, they
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will hear it better. How much time do we give
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these people to pack up?
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>> Crooks and thieves,
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>> 5 minutes to pack up.
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>> Crooks and thieves, 5 minutes to pack up.
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Crooks and thieves, 5 minutes to pack up.
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>> Crooks and thieves
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>> 5 minutes to pack up. Crooks
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5 minutes.
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>> Faith and truth are on our side. We know, we
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will prove to everyone that there are millions of people in this country
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ready to live by the slogan: "Do not
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lie and do not steal." We will win.
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>> We will tell everyone the truth. We will occupy
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the streets of Moscow. And we will not leave. Drag us away,
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we will not leave. Fine us, we will not leave.
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We are not afraid. This is a thieves' regime. This is
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nobody. These people have seized the Kremlin, but they
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are not the authority. Who is the authority here? We are.
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>> Who is the authority here? We are.
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>> Legitimate and honest authority will be where
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it belongs: in the Kremlin and in the
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State Duma. Crooks and thieves. 5
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minutes to pack up. We will win.
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Where from,
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>> friends?
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Well done,
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well done,
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well done,
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well done,
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well done,
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well done,
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well done.
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I cannot chant as loudly
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as you can. I salute you. You are the authority here.
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You will win. There is no need to wait
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for anything or place your hopes in the people
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standing on the stage. We are the authority here.
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>> We are the authority here.
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>> We will do everything ourselves. Expect nothing from
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the presidium. Ask yourself: "What have you done
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to fight the crooks and thieves? We are the authority here.
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authority.
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>> We are the authority here.
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>> We must say this without a smirk and without
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irony, because it is true. We are the authority
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here. I salute the authority of a free
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Russia. We are the authority here.
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>> We are the authority here. We are the authority here.