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Hi, this is Navalny. I'm holding in my hands
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a sheet of paper that our investigations department sent me,
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and on the one hand I want
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to tear it up immediately, in a fit of rage,
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but on the other hand I can't do that
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because I want to read this
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paper to you, and I assume you'll also
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be disgusted. That's not so important. Let me remind you
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that Rosneft is the largest
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state-owned oil company,
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which means that by law it belongs to you,
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dear viewers. It is run
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directly by the Russian government,
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our government, and it appoints the entire
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management of the company. More than that,
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the company is effectively run personally by
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Putin, who together with his close friend
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Igor Sechin is in charge of the key
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issues inside this company. So now I'm going
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to read out the prices of some
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interior items purchased by a company
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owned by a state where 19
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million people live below the poverty line. I
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think that half of those watching
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this video right now earn less than
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30,000 rubles a month, and you'll especially enjoy this:
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Rosneft purchased a vodka shot glass
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for 11,000 rubles
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while at the same time the salary of a teacher
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at a secondary school in Tambov Region is
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7,500
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rubles. Ice tongs for
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rubles, while at the same time a loader in
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Novosibirsk earns 23,000
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rubles. Sugar tongs for 29,000
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rubles—you can't buy them with the monthly pay
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of an underground mining installer who
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earns 25,000 rubles in Kemerovo Region.
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A napkin holder for 32,000
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rubles. Sadly, an electrician in Nalchik earning
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30,000 rubles a month wouldn't be able to buy it
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even after working a full month. But Rosneft
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can. A beige blanket for
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124,000 rubles—we can afford that. We're not
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just, I don't know, general practitioners
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from Rostov-on-Don earning
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16,000 rubles a month.
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A caviar dish.
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A caviar dish for 83,000
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rubles—why not, perfectly affordable. A mere
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two months of work is all it would take for
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a commuter train driver from Nizhny Tagil
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to buy such a stylish
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and essential household item. And so
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on. Looking at all this, I want to say
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that these people who have seized power in Russia—
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the Sechins, the Medvedevs—they have truly gone mad
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over luxury. What is all this for? Why
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all of this? Because all of it is essentially
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being demonstratively thrown in the faces of people
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who are barely scraping by. And if
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you happen to think this is some kind of
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super-unique purchase and that Rosneft is
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buying these items just in case
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the Lord God comes down to Earth and says,
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"Bring me caviar in your finest
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caviar dish," then no—they're
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buying this for a helicopter. Because really,
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you can't just fly in a
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helicopter without having a
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beige blanket for 124,000 rubles, a vodka shot glass
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for 11,000 rubles, and sugar tongs for
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29,000 rubles. Otherwise it wouldn't be a flight,
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it would be a disaster. Personally, I
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really
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never leave the house without ice tongs and
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a napkin holder. And Sechin all the more so. They
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have become utterly shameless, and they will never stop. Here's
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the seemingly logical question: why are they
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taunting people with this? What is a
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pensioner supposed to feel looking at such
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purchases? What is a long-haul truck driver to think when
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they are trying right now to squeeze
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additional taxes out of him while at the same time
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buying caviar dishes for 83,000? The logical answer is:
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they shouldn't do this, they shouldn't taunt, they shouldn't
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provoke people. Right now, after all, basically
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no one has any money. Life is fairly hard right now.
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But the explanation is that they
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simply cannot stop. They cannot
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put an end to this feast during the plague
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(a Russian expression meaning lavish excess in a time of disaster), neither in big things nor small, neither in their palaces
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nor in their cutlery. Just look:
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their fork costs 11,000 rubles
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apiece, their knife 12,000 rubles apiece, and damn it,
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a teaspoon for 14,000 rubles apiece. And
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this madness will not stop until
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we stop staying silent. I very much
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ask you: if you know people who
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earn less per month than this
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damn napkin holder costs—32,000 rubles—then
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send them this video so they can better
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understand what the Russian government is, what
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Russia's state companies are, and
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where their money goes. And please
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do two more things that irritate
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our authorities more than anything else. First,
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sign in support of my nomination for the
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presidential election—the link is in the description.
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And second, be sure to come to the
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anti-corruption rallies on June 12
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that will be held across the country. Already 193
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cities have signed up. Otherwise we just sit
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at home, and they think that we
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all agree with them buying themselves
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teaspoons for 14,000 rubles at our expense.
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But we do not agree. Personally, I absolutely
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do not agree with this, so on June 12 I
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will go to our peaceful rally
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to say so, and you
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should join us. And subscribe to our
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channel—this is where the truth is told.