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Hi, this is Navalny, and I still can't
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hold back—I have to say something about
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that lovely pair of fugitive former lawmakers.
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Let me remind you: the two spouses are both former
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State Duma deputies, both major pro-
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Putin loyalists and patriots, who recently fled to
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Ukraine and are now testifying there in a
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Ukrainian court, and now refer to Russia
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as nothing less than a fascist state. The husband
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in this wonderful couple is
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Communist deputy Denis Voronenkov, and
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his wife is United Russia deputy Maria
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Maksakova. It was their parliamentary wedding
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that was celebrated with such pomp just
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a few months ago. Back then they called
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it
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an inter-factional event in the Duma, and they hung up these
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posters and signs. At their wedding, singing was provided by
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none other than the Chairman of the State Duma
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himself, Sergey Naryshkin. Just take a look,
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please, at these wonderful
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shots. The couple was so, uh, beloved and
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pampered. Even back then I really couldn't stand
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them—especially the groom, Voronenkov—and
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we even released a special
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investigation in which we proved that this
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figure, who had spent his whole life in
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public service, including, incidentally, the
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prosecutor's office, had income and spending that somehow
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didn't match up at all. After all, we
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found that he owned an apartment
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on Tverskaya worth 291 million rubles
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an apartment on Rublyovskoye worth 100
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million rubles, and the deputy's car collection included
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a Mercedes, a Bentley, a Range Rover, and a Land
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Cruiser. Meanwhile, Voronenkov's annual income
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—Voronenkov's—
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as officially declared, was 2.5 million rubles a year. So
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as you can see for yourselves, there is simply no way
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a man with that biography could have honestly
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earned that kind of wealth. But back then,
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when we made a scandal over this and wrote
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letters and appeals to the State Duma and to the
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prosecutor's office and every other authority,
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the authorities told us:
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don't you dare touch the honest patriot,
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Deputy Voronenkov. And anyway, it's none
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of your business where he got such
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real estate. And your investigation is
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a hit job connected to the fact that the deputy and his
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wife take such an active
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patriotic stance. And they
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really did take such a stance—
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an active patriotic one. They voted
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for all the most hellish, disgusting
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laws the State Duma passed, and introduced
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the craziest bills. For example,
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just look: Voronenkov demands
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that Russia ban the game Pokémon Go. And of course,
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needless to say, they both actively voted
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for any aggressive actions against
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Ukraine. And then, suddenly, Voronenkov—well, he
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apparently fell out with his former
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colleagues in the security services, his accomplices in his
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criminal business, and they decided to take
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that business away from him. And, as is usually
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done in Russia, they simply
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opened a criminal case against him, and our hero
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quickly found himself in Kyiv. And then it came out
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that—for several days now—I have simply been
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reading their various interviews and I just
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want to cry. It turns out they were both simply
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forced to vote for the annexation
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of Crimea—literally by force—and
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Voronenkov was personally told that
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if he didn't vote, he wouldn't make it even 50 meters from
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the State Duma—they would simply kill him.
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"I was directly told that I wouldn't make it even 50 meters from
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the State Duma. Right here,
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they said, nothing will save you here,
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nothing will help, do you understand?" And now, for example, I
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am looking now at this tweet of
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Voronenkov's from the time of the annexation,
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where he says: "A photo from a trip to
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Crimea. I was struck by its beauty.
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I fully support its accession to
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Russia." And now I understand: he wasn't
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writing that voluntarily—he simply
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had no other choice. He was being tortured.
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How did I not realize it earlier? My God.
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So all that time, while they sat in the
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State Duma and received a salary of
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450,000 rubles a month, they understood that
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Russia was a rotten state and Putin
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was a terrible dictator. But all those
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disgusting laws—they voted for them
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because they were very afraid. Apparently of the
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people who were singing at their
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wedding. And with the bride, Maksakova, in particular,
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the depths of it all were revealed, because she
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has now announced to the whole world that
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it turns out she had German citizenship
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all that time, and everyone around her
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knew about it. And despite the fact that this
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100% disqualifies a person from being a
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State Duma deputy, she remained
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a deputy for the entire term. Now, of course,
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after her interview, the leadership of United
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Russia is screeching in panic, screeching to the whole
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country that they knew nothing. But that is
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obviously not true, and the facts
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Maksakova provides look quite
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convincing. All in all, the story turned out
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to be very funny, and above all it speaks
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to the astonishing moral
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qualities of the people from whom these
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pro-Putin ranks are recruited. And Professor Solovey was absolutely right
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when he recently said: if you want
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to see Russia's future, look
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at Deputy Voronenkov. Exactly so.
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Because the core of United Russia, and indeed
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of this entire Putinist nomenklatura (Soviet-style ruling elite), is
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just a pack of sellouts whose only concern is
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what the classic once said:
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money, money, money—that's all they want,
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money, money, money. And if any one of them
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gets squeezed tomorrow by their own colleagues,
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they'll all end up in Washington in
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In London or Kyiv, they’ll be standing there in
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a local court, with burning eyes
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full of tears, testifying that
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in fact they had always been opposition figures
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and dissidents, and that they were simply forced
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to vote, or to serve as ministers, or
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to be judges. But I’ll tell you even more:
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if tomorrow some kind of major
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showdown breaks out within the Kremlin
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mafia and they devour Putin and put
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Shoigu in his place, or someone like
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Lavrov, we may yet see Putin himself making
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statements saying that, actually, for all 17
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years he dreamed of making Russia free.
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He wanted, desperately wanted, to release all
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the prisoners, but all his decrees on the matter
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were blocked by the bad boyars (a reference to the old Russian trope of “the good tsar, bad boyars”). And as for all those
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billions of dollars that he received, and that
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his family received, he was simply forced to take them
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under threat of, of course, certain
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death. So whenever you get the chance,
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vote and
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campaign against this gang of liars and
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hypocrites that has now seized
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the Kremlin, the State Duma, and all
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regional power. They all need to be driven out
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with a filthy broom, and a good way right now
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