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Hi, this is Navalny with you again after
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a month under arrest. I did the math, and it turns out
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that over the last 12 months I have already
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spent 75 days behind bars.
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Even so, the first thing I want
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to tell you now is this: don't be afraid of these
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arrests and detentions. I just did another
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month, and of course there was nothing good about it,
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but nothing terrible happened to me either.
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But I wasn't afraid of the crooks, and I didn't
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stay silent when I saw injustice.
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And now I can consider myself a good
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citizen of my country.
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What you should fear is not arrest, but having
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your future stolen.
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What is happening out there on the outside looks
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worse than the food in the prison cafeteria. In just
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a little over a month since
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Putin's inauguration for his fifth presidential
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term, we already have a rise in the retirement
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age—a scam on a massive scale
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and a direct violation by Putin of his
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promise.
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After all, he said verbatim: "As long as I am
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president,
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such a decision will not be made. I am against
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raising the retirement age, and
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as long as I am president, such a decision
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will not be made." And then there is the insane rise in
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gasoline prices. Even in the special detention center (a facility for administrative detainees), people
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talked about it nonstop—everyone from detainees to
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police officers. And you and I understand perfectly well
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that once gasoline prices go up,
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the price of everything else will rise too. And against
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that backdrop, our government is discussing a plan
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to help whom? That's right—oligarchs,
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billionaires hit by sanctions. Heaven forbid
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their fortunes
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shrink from $14 billion
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to $12 billion.
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We absolutely cannot allow that.
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We must urgently give them even more budget money.
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Plus a whole bunch of new idiotic laws,
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restrictions, bans, and so on and so on.
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Someone might object and say, but on the other hand,
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there is something good—the World Cup
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started
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today. Yes, it did start. We wish our national team
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good luck and we're rooting for them. It's just that
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somehow it's still impossible
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to forget that Russia's World Cup
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became the most expensive in history: more than
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$14 billion that you and I
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spent from the budget. And who profited?
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Of course, the first match hadn't even started yet,
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and the main winners of the championship were already
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known to us: the list of the biggest contractors
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is once again topped by those insatiable people,
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friends of President Putin. So
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the World Cup is, of course, a celebration
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of sport, but in our country, unfortunately, it is
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also a feeding trough—a chance to steal from
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citizens tens of billions
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of rubles. Looking at all this, can we stay silent and
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sit at home? I believe we cannot. And together with
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my friends, colleagues, and allies
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across the country, I will continue this work
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no matter what. And you too—do not stay silent.
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Do not be afraid to act. Do not be afraid
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to speak the truth. Don't forget
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