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Hello everyone. It's 8:18 p.m. in Moscow, here in the studio of

Navalny Live. Alexei

Navalny — or Alexander Lukashenko, as

businessman Boris Titov called me this week.

Businessman Boris Titov, who

is also running for president,

you can vote for him too — a worthy

man. With me is my new Christmas

gadget on top of the Christmas thing — you'll

see a kind of donation progress bar.

Today we're raising money to

pay the fines of those who were unlawfully

fined for organizing various

rallies, so don't spare your money.

Chip in, because later, if you — God forbid —

get fined, someone will

send you your 500 rubles (about $5.50) back. We seem

to have set up a system where I

can read your questions off the screen,

so you can ask me questions

either via Twitter with the hashtag #Navalny

2018, or through

this very screen here —

the question will appear and I'll read it.

Actually, to be fair, since you've

paid, I'll probably even read some

insulting messages or comments

that you write to me — but only

if they're fit for broadcast. We don't want

to get in trouble, and we don't want to upset

the parents of minors who

are watching this broadcast. Today I'm in

an excellent mood, really. Though this morning

I was in a bad one, because for the last

few days I've been busy running around

to banks collecting all sorts of certificates that

we have to submit to the Central Election Commission,

about property, accounts, my wife's accounts — all that.

It's an enormous amount of paperwork, and

it's incredibly irritating. But

this evening the news came that

Artyom Chaika has been added to the American

sanctions lists, and that's wonderful.

My friends, it's simply marvelous,

because Artyom Chaika is absolutely not

our friend. I want to say right away to everyone

who

who may be thinking: yes, he's a bad, evil,

villainous person, not a good man, but still

he is a citizen of Russia, and we don't

like the fact that a foreign state

is somehow restricting him. Well, he is

not really a citizen of Russia at all, this

man. Of course, he holds a passport of the

Russian Federation, but he is not a citizen

of Russia — he is an enemy of all Russian citizens,

because he robs all of us and

moves his money to Switzerland. I am very

glad, I repeat, that he ended up on these

lists, and the Anti-Corruption Foundation did

a lot to make sure that Russian citizens

learned who Artyom

Chaika is. Please, a few seconds from

our 2015 film, when no one yet

knew who he was. Who paid for such a

large-scale celebration, and whom personally

the Minister of Culture congratulates from the stage?

They write that the owners of the hotel are investors from

Russia. It seems like this must be some

well-known oligarch or hotel magnate, but that's

not the case. In this video, the real owners

of the hotel

solemnly cut the ribbon. Recognize him?

This is Artyom Yuryevich Chaika,

the son of Russia's Prosecutor General. There,

you see, Artyom Yuryevich Chaika. In the film

we say that you haven't seen this man before.

And indeed, no one had

seen him before. Now everyone knows him. I consider that a major

achievement of our foundation, because

we wrote a lot about this man.

Now almost everyone who

is interested in politics knows about him. We know the rules of

his business, his brother's business; we know that

he became one of the monopolists in

the salt market in Russia, and so on and so

forth. But I just want once again to draw

your attention — take a look at our

investigation if you've forgotten, or

if you haven't watched it at all. Artyom Chaika is not

just some corrupt official, you know, not just

a villain — some man in a tie,

a shirt, a suit, whom you all

imagine sitting around moving money. This man

killed.

He is a participant in organized

criminal groups. He

— we made this accusation and still

stand by the position that Artyom

Chaika, together with his family, under the protection

of his daddy and other leaders

of the prosecutor's office, killed the head

of the Far Eastern Shipping Company, and all of this

was cooked up in such a way as to make it look

like it was a suicide. We believe this and will

continue to insist on it. We say that all

the documents point to this — that the Chaikas,

senior and junior and every one of them,

were involved in business with the Tsapki gang (a notorious Russian criminal group), that is,

with people who killed repeatedly.

If you want to give yourself a scare and

possibly ruin your mood, type into

Wikipedia 'Kushchyovskaya stanitsa' (a Cossack village in southern Russia) and read

the description there of how children were thrown alive into

the fire by those very murderers. And the Chaikas

did business with them. Therefore every

citizen of Russia should welcome

the fact that the Americans included Artyom Chaika

— for starters, Artyom Chaika — on the sanctions

lists, and regret only that the Russian

Federation will not do the same. Which in

practice means this is what Chaika will now

be facing: he has landed on the so-called

SDN list, which is the harshest

part of the sanctions list, which means

that any of his property, shares, and money in

bank accounts—in short, everything, everything, everything that belongs to him—

will be immediately

frozen as soon as it falls under

U.S. jurisdiction or ends up within

the sphere of influence of any American companies.

Besides, this will make it much harder for him

to deal with any banks, because

well, in practice, that means he will

simply find that within a couple of days

the credit cards of any

foreign banks will stop working, and it will seriously

complicate his business and, more broadly, his

life in Switzerland. Let me remind you

that he earns his money here, while

he moves it all over there, and

that is where he is trying to get a residence permit.

In other words, he is a typical representative

of the Russian elite, who in fact

... As for the question, what is the plan if they allow

participation in the election—wait, 24...

...people out in the street right now... about Chaika (likely Yury Chaika, former Russian prosecutor general), yes?

Yes, yes, I’m getting to that—I’ll explain everything.

I lost my train of thought after all; I’m still inexperienced

when it comes to reacting instantly to these

questions. Anyway, Chaika has landed on

a serious sanctions list.

It will now be very difficult for him to conduct

any kind of business abroad—practically

impossible. He will resort to

various tricks, probably trying to reduce

his stake in certain companies. He

will remain a salt monopolist inside Russia,

but as for any exports,

that is out of the question. Only some

third-rate banks located in some

place like Somalia might open an account for him,

or maybe in some...

in Syria, perhaps, he could open an account.

In Russia, sure—but in any respectable

country, he will not be able to do that. So

we welcome all of this

and regret only one thing:

that Russia itself does not do this. Comrade... incredibly...

On all channels he says that he is in contact with

you. Don’t believe that, for example, you will be allowed

into the election—he is deceiving either you or...

I didn’t manage to read such a huge

question, but the person paid 2,000 rubles for it

(about $20–25), so: how does an opposition Duma plan to work?

Will there be an attempt

to dissolve it? We see that we need to raise

the price for questions, because there are too many of them.

So, what is the plan if they do not allow it, if

I am not allowed to run?

We will declare a voters’ strike.

We will not take part in

a campaign in which the main

candidate was not allowed to participate.

There was a question about... and about some kind of

rates. To be honest, I did not

understand it very well, even though it was huge.

And the third question—the third question was...

Remind me, what was the third question? I keep

trying to remember, but I can’t right now. Sorry.

Please, what was the third question? Meanwhile,

I want to move on to the next topic—my

main topic, the one that currently occupies me the most.

The entire headquarters team is working on it too,

all of us, all of us, all of us. It is the nomination process. We

ran the campaign—we ran

the campaign excellently. I am proud that all these

wonderful people worked with me. It

was, and still is, very cool. And now we

are approaching an extremely important

event.

The actual nomination itself—this is how

it works: we have to hold

an initiative group meeting, one or several.

Under the law, you can hold as many as you like;

there is no limit. And we are

quite vulnerable at this moment because

we have to gather 500 people, and they must vote

for you: who is in favor of

nominating Navalny? Then we take

the documents to the election commission. But as you understand,

it is fairly easy to disperse this group of

people, or spray something in the room—

some kind of canister with

tear gas—or send

some thugs (gopniks, Russian slang for street hooligans), five people or

a thousand people, to disrupt the meeting.

There is a lot the authorities can do,

because we do not even need to hold a rally;

holding a rally would actually be easier. But this is

precisely this formal procedure for

registration that is vulnerable.

But we have a major advantage: we

can hold this in many, many

cities, because we have real

activists and a real organizational structure.

So we decided to hold

such 500-person meetings in 20 cities. In the description

of this video there is a link to all the cities, and

you can sign up for one of these initiative

groups and take part. About plucking Chaika—

thank you very much. I do not know, somehow they plucked...

or felt around—probably. I do not know, but

thank you. Anyway, we are holding these

initiative group meetings both in Moscow and in all

the regions. There is a link in the description—go there,

click “participate.” You cannot

sign up for Moscow, because in Moscow

it is the riskiest and most problematic

event, so it will be by invitation

only. We are inviting people and planning it as a

working event. We are not inviting

any stars or celebrities there, because

it will be fairly long and tiring,

lasting many hours. And in fact, we still

do not fully understand where we will

hold it. Most likely it will be

literally on the beach in Serebryany Bor (a park area in Moscow),

where we will put up a tent—or they will not let us

put it up, and we will end up on

a snowy field, which is rather funny.

I have already seen that there were many comments.

Claims of this kind—that Navalny’s nomination event

will take place on a nudist beach—are false.

Because the nudist beach is located

nearby, a few hundred meters away; we will be on a

regular beach, so everyone will be

clothed. And what good are sanctions if Putin

just compensates for everything at our expense?

Exactly right, Yevgeny Radchuk. That is why

we are running this campaign, that is why we

are trying to change the government so that

Putin can no longer compensate for anything

at our expense. That excuse has already appeared,

and we do not want him to be paid even more.

That is why we are holding these initiative group meetings.

Join us.

Vityaz, so, the Central Election Commission seems

to have said that it will attend

our events in a number of regions. In

other regions—for example, in Vladivostok—

there is real pressure, and they are saying this

will be an unauthorized rally, that they will

disperse people—they are trying to intimidate us. But this is not

a rally at all.

This is an initiative group. The notification

is submitted to the election commission, and we have done all of that.

Misha Kuzmenko, I love you, be OK.

That cost 2,018 rubles.

Misha Kuzmenko—or someone else who wanted me

to say it—Valeria let me know. Right, Misha

Kuzmenko, okay, that’s it, now I have

finally figured it out: Valeria and Misha

Kuzmenko, you’ve confused me again. I mean,

in different regions this is going very

differently. In many places, the election commission simply

writes, “Everything is fine, we will come, we have

no complaints.” In other regions,

there is some pressure. It is clear that the authorities themselves

do not really understand what to do about it. They

must realize that the law is

completely on our side. There is simply no

other way to hold this

initiative group meeting. You submit

a notification to the election commission, and then

you gather 500 people somewhere—

outdoors, indoors, anywhere—and

there is absolutely no reason to disperse us. But we

will probably see some methods

of obstruction used against us.

Still, I just want to say once again

that we will definitely

hold these meetings in 20 regions. Some may be

disrupted, some may not, but in Moscow, on the

beach—we really did discuss today at our staff meeting

whether to hold it in

a parking lot, or in a business center cafeteria,

or in any indoor space, or at a metro station.

But we simply submitted notifications to the

election commission for many different locations,

so we are not violating

even the letter of the law, and we can hold

all of this in different places, including outdoors.

We will absolutely hold it in Moscow,

and in other regions we

are doing everything possible to make it happen.

It’s just that, guys, those of you taking part in this

movement, please be

patient. It is a tedious, unpleasant process,

with registration taking many hours.

But it has to be done, because we

do not want to undermine all of our enormous

work. In fact, we are the only ones who really

have this huge structure, these

volunteers. I assure you that no

other candidate—well, Putin probably could—

but no other candidate

could gather 500 genuinely real, truly their own

supporters even in three or four

cities, let alone hold such

initiative group meetings. But we can

hold them. We could hold them in all 83 regions

where we have campaign offices, but that would require

a significant amount of resources.

So we limited ourselves. Now, why

“campaign of short stature”? All right, I

read this: “Why is the pony short?”

No, I have no problem with short people

or people of small stature. The person whom

you are calling a pony—Putin, Vladimir

Vladimirovich—that is not his problem. The point

is not his height. The point is that he is, first,

a corrupt man, and second, he is dragging the country backward.

That is absolutely terrible. But I, I will continue

reading the messages.

Because I remember that 2,018 rubles

for each one of them

will go toward paying people’s fines. Ten such

messages from Valeria saying “Misha,

I love you,” or asking why someone is some height—that is 20,180

rubles for someone’s fine. That person

will be pleased. Vlad Antelope, today we

released an investigation, and that is also one

of the reasons, on the one hand, for my good

mood, because we finally

finished and published something we had had

for quite a while: material about Peskov and his

family, who bought an apartment in

Paris for almost 2 million euros.

On the other hand, of course, what is extremely

irritating is the complete lack of reaction.

Not only from the officials themselves,

but journalists too—good Lord, journalists.

There are still some independent media outlets left, or

semi-independent ones. Surely at least one of them wants

to get some likes, I don’t

know, some clicks. This topic really

does attract major public attention.

Call Peskov. Call his daughter.

Call someone on the anti-corruption committee,

call Natalia Poklonskaya—she

will tell you all sorts of funny things. You can make

them into a headline and get a ton of clicks.

But nobody is doing anything. That is very bad.

Let me show you one minute

of this 15-minute investigation, just

to remind you what is going on there. And

today we are asking Dmitry Peskov,

the press secretary of the President of Russia,

to explain to us not only... well, and also

People of Russia, this is who you see in the photo.

You see Elizaveta Peskova, and she talks so much

and lives such a glamorous life

that sooner or later a logical question arises:

where does she live? In Paris.

The apartment is located

in one of the most expensive districts of Paris, and

it has an area of 180 square meters (about 1,940 square feet). It has

an entry hall, a living room, 4 bedrooms, and 3 bathrooms,

a laundry room, and a balcony. It was purchased in

September 2016 and registered to

a French legal entity, Sirius. Seventy-five percent

of it belongs to Ekaterina Solotsinskaya-Peskova,

and 25 percent to her

daughter, Liza Peskova. And the most

interesting part is the price: it is

1 million 770 thousand euros,

which is 125 million rubles.

Irochka Meduzka is swimming in the Persian

Gulf.

This has nothing to do with what I just showed,

but someone paid for

this message,

so I had to read it. Before that there was

a message I forgot, sorry, about

whether the Duma (Russia's lower house of parliament) should be dissolved. Of course it should be

dissolved. It does not represent our

interests. The people sitting there hold stolen

mandates. Continuing on Peskov, what else

needs to be done? Well, there was also this story about

the watch worth 37 million rubles, and a yacht vacation

costing 26 million rubles a week. He spent

two weeks there, that is,

so roughly 50 million rubles. He also

didn't pay for that either—he effectively received a bribe.

A house worth a billion rubles. A billion-ruble house does not

just appear out of nowhere. You missed my question.

So now they'll start demanding 24,000

rubles back. I'll file a complaint with Sportloto (a Soviet-era state lottery, often invoked jokingly as a pointless complaint destination).

But I did read it. Attention: we will return

4,000 rubles to you.

What else needs to happen for this

government to at least try to pretend

that it is somehow asking questions too?

Peskov should be asked—Yulia, that's a task for the investigation—but no one

has explained where Peskov could possibly get

so much money. They told us

that Navka, the figure skater, his

wife, paid for his watch or whatever else,

but a figure skater simply cannot be that

rich

as to buy a house worth a billion rubles,

throw away tens of millions of rubles on

various expenses, and on top of that buy her husband's ex-wife

a house for 2 million euros

and an apartment in Paris for 2 million euros.

That's impossible. And yes, of course, it's outrageous.

Why are we running an election campaign?

Because enough is enough—we cannot keep tolerating this.

They are throwing all of this

right in our faces, with absolutely no concern.

This is Peskov's wife, who works in the

French branch of Rossotrudnichestvo (Russia's federal agency for international humanitarian cooperation),

in Paris—she heads

Rossotrudnichestvo there, representing

Russia, and she doesn't even know French.

That is stated in official

documents. Well, she...

You've probably seen the investigation devoted

to the musketeers and so on. In other words, people at

our expense... Someone sent 10,000 for a fine—excellent.

Great donation, thank you.

People live at our expense.

They really have turned on

this new aristocracy, and this is exactly how

they live. Have you seen the interior of that apartment?

A cheetah, aluminum... some kind of 'The Last Days of Pompeii' décor.

At our expense. Come to

the signature collection tomorrow.

It will be rush hour, so check your information in advance.

Come for verification. It really will be

peak hours—we'll try to avoid that, but for

verification, of course, come early, and

we will keep hammering away at Peskov, and

we call on everyone to keep pressing him too.

I urge everyone to share this video.

Why is this especially important?

Because you have a chance—you need to offer Putin

something a little more than immunity.

Please think about this. Putin, we

are offering you something a little more than

immunity: we'll take Peskov's

apartment in Paris and give it to you, Putin,

if you agree to a peaceful transfer of power.

Why is it important to spread this video?

Because we often release

investigations about people

the general public doesn't know, but

everyone knows Peskov. He's constantly on

television. Every grandmother knows who

Peskov is, and every grandmother understands what

an apartment in Paris or a wristwatch worth

30 million rubles means. So it is very

important that together we make sure

that any citizen of Russia, when

they watch the Direct Line (Putin's annual televised Q&A), reaches the point where

they look at Putin, then look at Peskov,

and think: you thieving mug, how can you

sit there, and why is the president sitting

next to you? And how dare you say anything about

fighting corruption? This is very, very

important. So the reproach that I

only read paid questions is unfair—I am also watching

Twitter.

Hurry to download... There are a great many questions in 2017 about

Vitaly Rukanov.

He was a volunteer for several years

in various election campaigns

that we ran, a volunteer lawyer, and in recent

months he worked in... I didn't

manage to read it—please repeat it for me.

I mean, don't pay again now, just

repeat the question you asked.

Sorry. He worked at the election...

I was receiving a salary. And if you are not aware

of what happened, you can go to

his social media, scroll back a little, and

see posts about Tochka and the campaign headquarters.

Volkov's best election campaign

A heroic person would stand firm even there in the sand.

So, basically, Volkov's arrest is on the record.

But that's the price of a successful campaign.

Today, he suddenly burst out with a post

saying that this is the worst campaign in the world.

Under no circumstances should you even think of

commenting on the election campaign.

Sobchak, did you write that to me for this purpose?

So that I would say it out loud? I won't.

comment on the election campaign.

As for Sobchak, I've said many times that, well,

at this particular stage, only fools

spend their time commenting on it.

So anyway, he put up a post saying

that this is, supposedly, the worst campaign in the world.

Everything is terrible, Volkov is a scoundrel, and that would be

easy enough to explain, but if he had written:

"Navalny is such an idiot and a bad person, I..."

I've been a volunteer for several years, and I want

to meet with you, I want to attend

the December 24 event. Is it worth going?

Will you be speaking there? About the December 24 event,

I'll say a bit later.

It would be understandable if you, Vitaly, had written: "Navalny

is an idiot. I worked for many

years as a volunteer, and then I was fired

from the headquarters." But there's also just this kind of

marker: why did they drag in, specifically,

the December 24 event, the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation) provocation?

Navalny is my president. I love my wife, Liliya.

Thank you, Alexander Kh. Thank you for these three

thousand rubles.

So anyway, he was pouring it all into this thing,

footbag, and together with Yashin they organized

a provocation—meaning the event on the 24th.

The authorities act by the law—they act

illegally. That's just a marker, that's all.

Right. Do you remember that in the event of victory

to put forward a proper candidate who

is at least in favor of a transfer of power?

In the event of victory, to hold a proper election

for president? But listen, all candidates

are formally in favor of rotation of power.

Putin always says that he is a candidate

for a replaceable office, but not all of that is real.

Those aren't real candidates. That's all. It's very simple.

They do not run real

election campaigns. Don't get distracted

by reading this message. 4,000 rubles.

Thank you. So anyway,

remember, we also had a volunteer like that,

Turovsky, who

heroically suffered, and then suddenly

burst out with a post about how we are all

awful and terrible. At first we didn't understand

what was going to happen, and I—would there be a neighborhood event?

The neighborhood event will happen. We didn't

understand. I said on air as well

Alexander, can you bring it along, can you—

they're tormenting me. Alexander, I'll help, and yes, I

give us a signal. But if you now

read what he writes, you'll be convinced

absolutely: he was simply planted

from the very beginning, because all his

posts

now are absolutely no different from what

the Kremlin propaganda says. Who is

the best broker on the market? I will definitely

entrust a huge part of the budget.

Okay, but that's advertising, guys. Advertising can't

cost 2,018 rubles on such a high-

rated program as Navalny 2018.

Sorry, I won't read that kind of thing on air.

Well, this Turovsky was once brought

into the headquarters by Rukanov, and well, I

Nadezhda Andreeva is the best mother-in-law.

I can't put them all through a lie detector.

It's very easy to plant someone among us.

Someone just came in off the street, and in fact,

have you noticed that after Rukanov, people like that every

day come out with posts: "I was a volunteer, they

called me, and now I want to say that all of

this is very bad." It's very easy

to plant someone among us, and I can't

check all 190,000 volunteers and 83

headquarters. Here at the staff meeting—I was there

less than two hours ago—there are 100 people standing there.

Obviously.

Sorry, but some people there have clearly been planted.

And some people are waiting for their moment

to also burst out with some kind of

post. Notice that before every

important event, before every

especially every rally that the authorities want

to ban, certain people appear,

immediately record a video address, and within

three minutes those video addresses

appear across all the hellish social media

channels—the same utterly vile faces every time.

The usual suspects comment on them,

spread them, write columns about them.

Everything happens the same way every time. But

that's normal. There is a certain number of

people who usually weren't planted by anyone;

they got offended, upset, or simply disagree with us.

And there are those who are planted.

Overall, our campaign is going wonderfully, and

everything is fine at our Moscow headquarters.

Despite the fact that we have had to

move four times and work under pressure, I am very

pleased and grateful to all the volunteers

who continue to work with us. Among

us there are foreign agents—those

foreign agents, naturally, decided

that the dislikes mean computers are infected

with a virus and are being used for artificial boosting. We need

to pay attention to this, clean

the computer, and change the YouTube password.

I'm not sure that's really the right

thing. But there, you read about the dislikes, and in

fact we really do see that

a large number of dislikes are clearly

Do you work with lawyers from Team 29?

Those guys are making a strong contribution to the fight against the current

lawlessness. We can see that there is clearly

a bot network being used for this, along with infected computers,

to leave dislikes.

That really is the case with the lawyer from

Team 29 (a Russian legal and human rights group); we do not work with him directly

directly as of today.

For example, they published a great

investigation titled something like

"How to Revive Manufacturing." I'll answer that in a moment.

Team 29 published today an investigation about

how student

groups in support of Putin are being created at

universities. It's an interesting thing, especially against the backdrop of

how we were criticized for the fact that we

work with students. As for how to revive

manufacturing: you need to free up the economy.

So, Shariy is talking to you about Kremlin

...not responding to the substance of his accusations is the same

thing Medvedev did after *He Is Not Dimon to You* (Navalny's 2017 anti-corruption film), no matter

who Shariy is.

Comment on what he said. It's not hard

to comment on some of his statements

because I don't watch Shariy. I watched

him—well, not regularly—I watched several of his

videos. At one point he

focused on Ukraine. He was constantly

criticizing Ukraine; now he's constantly

criticizing me for all sorts of reasons, but

as for Stanislav Belkovsky, there seems to be some kind of

personal dislike toward me. Is it connected with the fact that you

used to be a nationalist? That's rather funny

because very often, a long time ago,

people said that Stanislav Belkovsky

was organizing nationalist

groups that I worked with. So my

godfather of nationalism... Time and

place in each of our lives are determined by fate.

If the hero doesn't show up,

there will be no heroic deed. Guys, I hope you

won't start writing poetry for me to

read. All right, I promised that during this

broadcast I would read every message, and I will

do that patiently. Please forgive me that

I couldn't... Is Pumpa Europe a joke or

serious? At least briefly, how do you see

the development of this sector in Russia? Thank you.

Fortunately, this sector in Russia is, broadly speaking,

developing wonderfully on its own, and we can see

that it is one of the few sectors that

was developing as long as the state didn't

interfere. As long as the state didn't interfere,

everything was great. On the internet, we had

excellent indicators; everything

was good. So the IT sector needs to

be left alone first and foremost for now.

Please pass on the message:

good luck with the exam session, and kitty Ulyana

sends you greetings. I'm passing that on—thanks for the kitty. As for

"foreign agent,"

there are foreign agents, and the Federation Council's website

has decided to expose them. Let's take a look

at the criteria by which they classify

people, by which they decided to designate even

individuals. As for this mistake in your program,

can one only allocate a percentage to a

special account where the...?

For details and proposals, please go to the website

Plan of Change, to the program website, simply to

the Navalny 2018 website. There is a contact

email there—send it there, and we will forward it to whoever

needs it. So now any person can essentially

What about the video *The Millions of an Anti-Corruption Fighter*?

from 2017, where you say that

you earned 5.5 million rubles in a year

from legal consultations, but did not

handle cases. Who are your clients?

Well, that's not me saying it—it was published in

my declaration for the 2013 election.

And soon there will be published

a declaration... Every Russian family

should have the right to 2 to 4 hectares (about 5 to 10 acres) anywhere

of land by the sea in Russia, so this

does not look like a utopian idea at all.

So, my

property declaration will be published in detail, and my

wife's and mine—you will be able to see all of it.

You can look up how much money I

received from the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights), almost as compensation.

All of that will be visible. I wish

Navalny to win the presidency.

Those are insults.

They say it's a good wish. I still can't quite

get to the foreign agents issue. So,

they are trying to fight people

who express some opinion of their own, and

that is why they introduced a new, absolutely over-the-top and

draconian law. Venediktov...

...is stirring this up. It's a disgrace.

Alexei Alexeyevich, it's a disgrace. I agree that

you very often play along with

...which is very, very bad when it comes to

foreign agents. For that, Alexei

Alexeyevich, even an indicator screwdriver could be declared

a foreign agent. Right now, any

person can be designated under two criteria.

A foreign agent. Criterion number

one—happy upcoming holidays, I hope everything

works out for you. No more big questions

left, thank you.

Criterion number one: you distribute

information. Criterion number two: you

receive money from abroad.

Right now I am sitting here distributing

information, and maybe this very

comrade—who wrote, "Happy New Year"—

Denis from Kazakhstan,

or Artyom Ryzhenkov, who just now

sent us 2,018 rubles from Belarus, or

from America, where he lives while holding a Russian

passport—and all the money I received came from

abroad, and I am distributing information, so

there you have it: a foreign agent. You have a

YouTube channel.

What do you do there?

Take baths in potato chips, get

a ton of views, and

for those views YouTube pays you. Alexei, you'd

better stick out your tongue—well, no, excuse me,

please. You know that for YouTube views

you get paid

because they sell advertising on your blog.

You received money from abroad, and you are a foreign agent.

A foreign agent. You write something on

Facebook and work at a Western

university, and you received from there

a scholarship or a study grant or

something else. Basically, you made an app

for iPhone or Android and receive money;

people pay you, they are sitting here in Russia,

they bought your app for two

dollars, it took 30 percent from you,

and brought the rest of the money to you from

abroad — and you are a foreign agent.

So, hinting through this whole story that

populists rushing to power will ruin

the country. Alexei, your comment is very

detailed — as I understand it,

it is about Movchan.

A detailed one. Maxim Mironov published

a comment where he tore apart Novchina, which

simply makes a whole bunch of factual errors

when talking about this. Listen, guys, make

the font a little smaller, nothing fits

on my screen. Someone there 'developed Siberia,'

Abramovich and Khodorkovsky privatized things, simply

said, 'These are ours.' Will there be a trial for them?

But as for Khodorkovsky — note this:

he was tried twice; the man spent 10 years in prison.

Abramovich did exactly the same thing

as all the other participants, so

what we really need here is equal

treatment for everyone. Alexei, as for supporting

the cycling movement: today I was almost

hit twice, this is impossible to tolerate. 6,666 rubles

(about $70) — sent by a devilish cyclist, many

thanks. Yes, no need to whine — the cycling movement needs

support, it needs to be developed properly,

bike lanes need to be built, but not done

idiotically, as in Moscow, where you get

nearly hit twice; it should still be more

normal. Hello, wonderful... so that your

great volunteer corps — definitely

I will come to you again.

Thank you very much, Sergey. So, about foreign agents:

do you know who introduced the foreign agents law?

My former classmate.

His name is Andrei Klishas; he studied

together with me, by the way, at the University

of Peoples' Friendship (RUDN University in Moscow).

Send in questions, and then answer

five at a time along the main line.

Cannabis — legalize it? Legalization of

drugs has practically happened nowhere;

what is needed is the decriminalization of this

sphere, because right now people are being imprisoned

for 5 to 10 years for, say, one gram

of hashish. Drugs are evil, terrible evil; nobody

should use drugs. But the fact that we have

driven tens of thousands of young people

into prisons for minor

offenses — offenses, not

serious crimes — is of course completely

wrong. Andrei Klishas, the senator

who introduced it again — I remember that I

need to say this about foreign agents:

he introduced this bill under which

absolutely anyone... I know — what do you think of the project

Venus by Jacque Fresco? I know nothing about it,

I am hearing about it for the first time; I will look it up on Wikipedia if

I do not forget. He introduced this bill, and

now they are trying to create a situation in which

every single person can, in effect,

each of us, one way or another, be

declared a foreign agent. They do not

like your Facebook posts?

Foreign agent. Which means under the post

you must write: 'I am a foreign agent.'

And if your handle is UnstoppableWritesMisha190, you must

write: 'I am a foreign agent.' And if you

do not write it, you can be fined

5,000 rubles, then 50,000 rubles, and then some other

fines.

huge amounts, and then

bailiffs will be chasing you endlessly. In other words,

this creates a kind of global

threat for everyone. Please do not

get distracted by these messages, it is awful.

Leave 15–20 minutes for them at the end

of the broadcast. Sergey Zotov — well, listen, since I

promised to read them, it was probably a mistake,

yes, but still, I promised. I will not

read... What is Senator Klishas famous for?

Besides the fact that this man, because of

Navalny, and besides the fact that he is my

former classmate, he is famous because we did

an investigation about him, and this guy

who is chasing after us and wants to declare us all

foreign agents turns out to be the owner

of a wonderful house in

Switzerland.

Let us take a look at it, at this house.

Seven hundred... nine hundred fifty-seven square meters

— this house costs about 7 million euros.

Kanata goddess power goddess.

This senator's house costs about 7 million euros, and

at one time we caught

him failing to fully

declare his real estate holdings.

Even for a smaller property, he should have

been kicked out of the Senate, but that did not

happen. Read it with feeling, properly,

and with emphasis. All right, Black, I read it.

For this, he should have been thrown out of

the Senate altogether, but he is still sitting there, and he

still has... in Switzerland. Note

this: formally, he and his family

are forbidden from even having bank accounts abroad.

Do you think it is possible to own this

property there, pay utility bills,

pay taxes, pay for the maintenance of this house,

little bird, little doggie, pay for

the upkeep of all of this without having

accounts in Switzerland?

Impossible. Well, you can pay for some things

from a Russian account, but to actually manage

real estate worth 7 million

euros without having

a foreign account, a disguised

foreign account, or a secret offshore company

either through a relative’s bank account or through

a front person—it’s impossible. We understand perfectly well

that Senator Klishas, who runs around after

us shouting, “You are foreign agents,” is himself

violating the law and is himself

a foreign agent, and he comes up with

this crap that he keeps pushing into

the State Duma and the Federation Council

while sitting in his property in Switzerland.

This—this really is infuriating.

Such hypocrisy—a bunch of crooks who simply

By the way, how did Klishas make his money?

He worked at the State Property Committee (Goskomimushchestvo, the Russian state property agency)

and helped Potanin effectively steal

the enterprise called Norilsk

Nickel.

After that, he left the State Property Committee and ran off

to work for Norilsk Nickel, where he

basically legalized his money.

Alexei, really—oh Lord—thank you

very much for everything. You’re welcome, my dear.

Trotsenko, thank you for everything. And these people,

in order to protect their right

to buy Swiss real estate and

manage it through their secret accounts,

want to declare all of us foreign

agents. I hope they won’t succeed. Let me

remind you that all the money today—where

did Ignaty go? A minute ago he was here with

us in a black cardigan, pink jeans, with

a white handkerchief in his pocket—some kind of

crematorium group, I know what that is—they

were defending it, basically.

To sum up: Klishas’s law on

foreign agents is terrible.

Support me as a candidate for

president too—I’ll put an end to this filth and

nonsense. And join my active

campaign groups. New Year’s broadcast.

I’m not going to defend... well, the audience

Kira Yarmysh, the agony of the broadcast...

Give the microphone back to Yarmysh—Yarmysh herself

doesn’t really want to sit here

in the evenings, and

during the program she tries to quickly

slip away home. Senator Klishas—the last

thing I want to say about him: Alexei, when

you become president...

Bookmaker and poker websites?

Well, that topic needs to be looked into. I’m

not sure about it. As for Russian sites, probably

obviously they should be unblocked.

After all, it’s a game, though some kind of

sport, apparently, and I don’t really see the point

of banning them. If you want to play, play; if you don’t,

don’t. There isn’t

any direct fraud happening there, so they

can exist perfectly legally.

Klishas, among other things, is also the kind of person who...

Hit like, folks...

He is the chairman of the All-Russian Society

of—let me say this correctly—

our investigations department has a magazine, you can ask

the investigations team—he’s the owner of dachshunds,

or rather the owner, the keeper of dachshunds.

What’s the right way to put it? He’s obsessed with

dachshunds—I didn’t write it down in my notes out of irritation.

That is to say, Klishas is the head,

the chairman of the national dachshund club,

and he didn’t say a single word about the horrible

act of Dmitry Rogozin. Hello—

what do you do about the copyright hardliners now?

Can you be jailed for using unlicensed Windows?

That’s a separate conversation. As for

copyright enforcers and the fight against piracy,

it’s all fairly complicated. Probably in

some future program I’ll talk more about it

in detail.

Rogozin tortured a dachshund, and Klishas

is silent about it, despite the fact that representatives

of the national dachshund council...

What do you think of Trump’s statement about

Jerusalem and the response to it?

How does it affect international relations?

Well, I join the entire international

community, which believes that Trump’s statement

will most likely complicate

everything that is happening

right now in efforts to resolve the situation in

the Middle East. Rogozin allowed

a dachshund to be publicly submerged—well, not drowned, but

still, the dog must have thought it was the end.

Now, in the corner: why don’t you come to Krasnodar?

There are fierce grandmothers there

in the majority.

I don’t come to Krasnodar because

it’s simply impossible to get approval

for a rally. We very much want to come through

Krasnodar—it’s a huge city, with huge

support, and many viewers from Krasnodar.

A video will now play in the corner.

If this makes you nervous, you can

just cover it like this. This is what

—well, I can see people sitting here,

some of them have already closed their eyes. There are

people—we watched this, all of us watched

how they took the dachshund right in front of

Rogozin and simply shoved it into some kind of

capsule, and then crammed it in there.

That poor dachshund, of course,

must have thought, “My God, what is happening? I was just

sitting in someone’s arms and seeing some

important people, and now suddenly they’re drowning me here

in front of Putin, and suddenly they’re drowning me,”

or “These people are trying to kill me, and

now I’m going to die.” And the dachshund, as it were,

decided it was dying and started swallowing

air—or rather, that water—but it was

oxygen-enriched, so the dachshund didn’t

die. They pulled it out, and it was vomiting in front of

everyone. And yes, we’re not—of course we’re not

hypocrites. We understand, we are fully aware

that there is animal testing, but what kind of

thing is this?

To put it simply, there’s nothing to comment on. It’s exactly

how the Kremlin crowd behaves, one for one.

It’s not profitable—quality work

is sometimes replaced by poor-quality work by them.

they consider it quality work, and not by

not in Ukraine, not in Russia — this is some kind of

strange person, and

he is completely uninteresting to me, although

it seems to me he already devotes 80 percent of his

time to me. They conduct experiments on

animals — be sure to do it in the carriage

a greeting with the Kremlin in the background and a glass in hand

I’ll think about it. Give me, so to speak — oh my — the topic

the topic worries everyone. With dachshunds, they do not

conduct experiments on dachshunds. There is Sakhno

animals, first of all, on which experiments are conducted

there is a rat. Today I was just thinking, I

will say on air that experiments on shares are not

conducted, and I googled it, and, well, uh

Google tells me: you probably meant

experiments on rats. Libertarians should

realize that being young and healthy

is good, but there are also children and old sick people

this is called populism, not a violation of

the principle of liberalism, but an expansion of

humanism. An excellent answer to libertarians

and Google, in horror, gave me: you probably

mean experiments on rats, because

well, as if the little gnomes who are in

the corner counting — they were horrified

experiments on shares, and in any case, well, no

that is not how animal experiments are conducted, but

there is some kind of protocol; you definitely do not need

to film it for federal television, well, well

what happened was animal cruelty

to animals. Are you for it or against it?

free energy — well, Maltsev is for it

you know, that kind of free energy

so I can’t say whether it is really

nonsense. Animal cruelty, and also

an attempt simply to throw dust

in everyone’s eyes by demonstrating

a technology that was invented

in the 1970s, but it is simply stupidity, nonsense

and of course Dmitry Rogozin should be

ashamed — damn it, Navalny

thank you. Dmitry Rogozin should be

ashamed. Now he is trying to make up for it by

apparently adopting it, so now

we are probably imagining, somewhat bewilderedly,

Dmitry Rogozin coming home

his wife opens the door, he is standing there with a dachshund and

says: I tormented her, and therefore

I am forced

to adopt her. Well, I don’t know — looking at what

he did, we all hope that Dmitry

Rogozin will not roast her and eat her for dinner, but

all of this is very bad. According to such

an expression: people out there, chasing after train cars, world

walk over others’ heads and live without knowing sorrow

for people. I am trying to understand — do I agree with such

an expression? I don’t know, it seems very

confusing to me. I’m not ready to say. I missed

one question, which was that in the statement

by Siru Kanov it is stated that we have some kind of

bad situation with signatures. That is not at all

the case. In Moscow we only need

seven and a half thousand signatures. How

do you live under such constant pressure?

How do you cope with stress? They — well, how

to cope with stress? Reading. All these

things — this is one of the biggest

stresses I have experienced in recent

times. Things are excellent with our signatures in

Moscow, a gigantic city where only

seven and a half thousand signatures are needed

everything is very good for us. Siru Konov is simply

just lying again. Then why did he write

a week ago about how great things were for us and

post photos saying, look how many people there are

Nike verification — it is painful to watch how

reasonable people quarrel. Holiday 24

is insane, it would have been more effective than

with him. We will discuss Holiday 24 now, but

moving from that to a special subject of success

of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation — he was drowning a dachshund, and now following

our publications. Kuzmich, thank you

very much, 2,700. Remember, it’s just that

last — last week I

showed you the video, you yourselves can, you

saw it — it spread across the internet about

the special subject, the son of the head

of the Investigative Committee in Volgograd Region

who now — I will literally in just

a few seconds show what he was shouting

there are grounds, of course, I am glad, to pepper

back, and secondly, throw the lama out the door, and Putin

has decided to violate the Constitution outright. Yes, this is

a direct violation of the Constitution if he

still does not address the Federal Assembly

I believe that is a violation

so, in my previous program

I said that, well, nothing would

happen either to this man’s father or to

this man himself. Last time I, by the way,

forgot to say that this guy here

the investigators whom you will make

key ministers closer to — closer to

the end, to choose for the campaign, we will talk about that

talk with Li, who is himself

an investigator in Moscow. He ran over and killed

a person last year. After all, all of that

ended in nothing, because

they said, well, the person was drunk, but

now, looking at this — hey, I’m asleep

subject — in general, there are a great many doubts

about who there was drunk, and I

said, and I was mistaken, that with the head

of the investigative body — together we will win

thank you — saying that nothing would happen to

the head of the Investigative Committee for

Volgograd Region, whose father — I

was mistaken — something did happen to him. What happened to him?

Let’s look at the website of the

Investigative Committee of Volgograd

Region

a little picture, a little picture, a little picture will now

appear — but it is not there. But if you

go to the website of the committee

of Volgograd Region, you will catch a nice

picture of how the head of this

Investigative Committee and this very same

Papa Bastrykin, meaning the father,

this man is shaking hands with them,

and the only news, the only thing,

the only sanction the father received

was that he was presented with

an honorary badge from the Investigative Committee

for some kind of excellent work, and everything is

fine for him—in other words, he is being rewarded. Of course,

you could say that a father is not responsible for his son,

although in this situation he clearly is

responsible. Great—these idiots made him an

investigator and

are clearly covering for him, using their official

position. But good Lord, could you at least

not reward him publicly against the backdrop of

all this? It’s just impossible—they made it so that

the whole country saw all of this.

And now this person

needs to go out to some region and

in front of everyone, so that a couple of people see it,

thank him, shake his hand, say

what a fine fellow he is, so that everyone knows

all those Navalny viewers, that no matter how much

they tell you on the internet,

no matter how outraged they get, we

will support these people. The same thing, well,

only on a much more horrifying scale,

happened when, remember, Nemtsov was killed like that

and the first testimony and

evidence began to emerge that Kadyrov was involved in it,

so what did Putin do?

He rushed to reward him.

Under President Navalny, would Artsi... sea

guinea pigs... would Tesak (Maksim Martsinkevich, a Russian far-right activist) be released, or

Well, I don’t have much love for

Martsinkevich, Tesak, but judging by Article 282

he has already been convicted some number of times under it, and

despite the fact that he held some absolutely

monstrous views—I’ve said many times

that I believe everyone imprisoned under Article 282

should be released if they were not

involved in actual violence. So here

you have to look at the specifics. So, anyway,

the fact that the very worst

very specific, awful crooks are getting rewarded

—one thing really struck me this

week, and not just me, but still.

Navalny Topchik, for him, Lermontov Square

December 24. What struck me was the statement by the head

of the Pension Fund that in Russia there are no longer

any pensioners left who

are living below the poverty line.

It’s simply monstrous. In a normal

country, this should have immediately triggered

a parliamentary crisis, and all politicians, all

candidates—especially anyone who wants

to be elected—

right now, in the election campaign, should be

talking about decriminalization and amnesty.

Should they be decriminalized now? I don’t

think that’s what matters here at all. I mean,

these people are running for

president—there are lots of them.

Every day they make statements, they shout

that everyone should come to the elections, that we must

do something—well, do something right now.

Pensioners are the main voters. The head

of the Pension Fund, looking everyone in the face,

is simply lying when he says that, when he talks about

this in response to the question.

What’s stopping me from watching and replying? I

don’t have time to watch videos. Can you

imagine how many videos are recorded

by all sorts of idiots and layabouts against

me because they want me

to enter into some kind of interaction with them

so that they get more

likes and everything else. I do actual

work—I work at the Anti-Corruption Foundation

(FBK). That is my job. Alexei,

Anatoly, thank you for such an advertising

platform, for smart people there—I can see that

people get publicity for Article 282.

I don’t understand why the presidential candidates

didn’t jump on this issue. They insulted

all pensioners in Russia, and they are practically

publicly treating as idiots 100 percent

of Russia’s residents, because they created

a simple trick—they invented

the so-called pensioner subsistence minimum

which is even lower than

the official subsistence minimum, that is,

the official minimum living standard. So they

basically say there are normal people, ordinary people, and then there are

pensioners, who need a little less,

because they eat less, need less clothing, and

apparently don’t need to pay for utilities and housing services.

So this is an even lower threshold. If you

receive more than 8,000 rubles in Moscow

(about $90 / €80),

Aska, best girl in Europe, what do you

think about restricting travel abroad?

It’s a working tool, yes, but in some cases

it is necessary—just not on the scale on which

it is applied in Russia. They seriously believe

that any pensioner in

Moscow who receives more than 11,500 rubles

(about $125 / €105) is already above the poverty line.

So there you have it—not such a poor person anymore, apparently. Well,

that is brazen and insulting.

A son was born to me in

... and we at Kazantip congratulate you on

the birth of your son. And that is how all state

statistics are built, you understand—like this.

That is how they say that people in Russia are not

so poor, that wages are not so low,

because they set these

subsistence minimums. If only Anton

Drozdov, the head of the Pension Fund, whose apartment

worth a billion rubles (about $11 million / €10 million) we uncovered,

could try living in Moscow on 11,500 rubles

a month—I’d like to see what would happen to him. But

this is, of course, absolutely outrageous

and I’m saying it once again.

I wrote about this before. I would like all

presidential candidates to speak about it.

If they are not talking about it, if they are not

discussing it, then once again, they simply are not.

real candidates, and I want to express

my gratitude to Yevgeny Roizman

for drawing attention to this.

Let's watch a very short clip and see what

Roizman—a hands-on practitioner, a city mayor—has to say

about this minimum.

of pensioners. Hello everyone, this is Yevgeny

Roizman. The Russian Pension Fund has stated

that there are no longer any people in Russia

whose pensions are below the subsistence minimum

level.

Explaining this to everyone: such pensioners could disappear

only in one case—if they

have died. In our region right now, the minimum pension

is 8,800 rubles, and in fact there are a great many such people.

At the same time, you have to understand

that their utility bills are often 5,000 to 6,000 rubles,

with all that implies, and they come in and

say: here, look at the bill—

there's nothing left to save on. Here's my pension, look.

Tell me, how am I supposed to live on this money?

How am I even supposed to get around by tram,

how am I supposed to go grocery shopping?

And they may come in wearing

a coat from around 1980,

still making do with old things.

Stop turning a good program

into a circus, guys. I admit

my mistake—it was the wrong

decision.

I did promise at the beginning

of the program that I would read everything, so I'm reading it. Running for president—

I keep my promises. Roizman drew

attention to this. By the way, Gulya (likely a channel/user name) also

wrote about it on her Telegram channel.

But the presidential hopefuls are silent.

That is absolutely wrong and bad.

I have several more topics here, but I

would still like to move on to the Day

of Free Elections on December 24. All of this is

the most important topic, the key

political confrontation taking place

right now—and it is already a political

confrontation not even between citizens,

but between one authority and another.

When Alexei Navalny, or the staff of the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation), or

anyone else, excuse me, says that

talking heads were being used—well, that is

just a simple example of going too far, for example.

A Black Mirror-type situation. Yes, I myself fell into that

trap too. Once again, I promised, so I'm reading. When

Navalny files an application, you can

say: well, he and some citizens—

they may represent someone, or they may not.

Yes, Navalny represents

many people, but we do not know how many

exactly he represents, although in Moscow, as we know,

he received 30 percent of the vote.

So some kind of Moscow

Kremlin-backed authority

has no right to deny him something. Here we

see a situation in which people went to

the polls and simply crushed United Russia

—Putin, Sobyanin, and everyone else—

specifically in their own district. They are the authority there.

People came and voted for them in

fair elections, despite the fact that they had

much worse, naturally,

starting conditions than United Russia.

They formed a majority

and, in the most literal sense of the

law, they became the authority. They elected Yashin

as the representative from the municipal assembly, and within

their powers they are doing many

great things. They are genuinely working for

us.

And that has greatly irritated Moscow City Hall.

What would you do about Abkhazia and South Ossetia?

As for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, let them live

and prosper, but I do not think Russia

should finance them. We do not have enough money

to be sending it there.

And now, within

their powers, they have announced

that they will hold a Day of Free Elections.

It is a municipal holiday; they have every

right to do it, and everyone living in Moscow has seen similar things

a hundred times.

Events like this—organized by district initiative groups on the 24th in the capital—

thank you very much, a birthday, a

cookie day, a marmalade day—this

happens constantly in Moscow. But a Day

of Free Elections? Oh no, that is forbidden, prohibited.

What does the government do? Its completely

classic trick. There was already

a statement: so, a rally like this, a rally

like that.

They always do the same thing. Regarding the

holiday on December 24, first of all

they are trying to confuse us and

shift the focus of the discussion.

Just a week ago, on the previous program, everything

was clear: the municipal deputies, within

their powers, announced

a holiday, and City Hall would not let them hold it.

After that, some kind of

application for a rally appeared, which for some reason

Dmitry Gudkov submitted. What would you do

if Putin offered you the post

of prosecutor general under Putin's

regime? The post of prosecutor general

has no significance at all, because all

key political decisions are made

by Putin himself.

They took the application to City Hall, and City Hall absolutely

illegally accepted that application, in violation

of the deadlines, and approved that rally.

Naturally, while refusing everything else to people.

After that, Yashin, of course,

became outraged, Gudkov withdrew the application,

and now we are already discussing some kind of

who did what there, and whether we were

supposed to go to the rally, or whatever,

everyone is writing about getting under OMON batons (riot police batons).

What OMON batons? Where did

OMON batons suddenly come from when the local authorities

are the authorities?

They are announcing a holiday, and yet we are discussing this instead.

Nonsense. They do this all the time. They are very

cunning people. In fact, they are

you can't really catch them out except in

one thing: that they actually have

people with advanced degrees and professors and so on

engaged in lies, deceit, and manipulation, in fact

.

Whether in the Kremlin, the mayor's office, or the Central Election Commission,

they are really holding meetings about how

to deceive everyone more effectively, and

and remember how, with marches and rallies about

renovation, there was a huge protest movement,

after which the mayor's office itself, with the help of

its puppet people, organized

some kind of rally against renovation, and that

rally turned into complete chaos; I was

there with my family,

and then after that the initiative

group split apart. Where is the

protest movement against renovation now?

It's gone. Remember, they did exactly the same thing

in 2011 and 2012. They

always do this. We need to be clear-eyed

about the fact that we are dealing with very cunning,

very deceitful people, and here there is only one way

to fight them: we must ask ourselves

what would be the most proper and

morally right thing to do in this case.

As for criticism of this campaign in the country

by Anatoly Shariy, I'm for you—well, I...

On the one hand, I'm glad that people about Shariy

sent 3,000 rubles (about $30–35). Once again, I really

don't think anything about him. A huge number

of various commentators are critical

of me on the internet. I

try to respond to criticism from people who are

more decent and respectable, and

I don't watch and am not going to watch

some person's videos. They rented such venues

for the zone.

Meduza (an independent Russian media outlet) has excellent political figures

In your view, are there any plans to create and

oversee your own project of that kind? Well, we

are not ready to create an entire media outlet; we already

have a ton of work as it is. So when we

see all this trash into which

every public

event turns, where the authorities try

with the help of either misled or

controlled people to create confusion,

we need to ask the question: what is the

right and moral, ethically sound thing

to do under the law? The right thing is

this holiday organized by municipal deputies,

because someone doing the right thing for you

Mikhail Pozharsky wrote that it is impossible

to fight for freedom and to fight for

fair elections through dishonest

organized events. That is,

when everything is done through trickery,

it can never serve a normal

good end. So if we are for the law,

then we are for the law; we must always

stand on the ground of moral rightness. We

are for you, and Kim Jong-un-style or Lukashenko-style methods

should be rejected. Great—good health to you,

take care of yourself.

So I certainly believe that Ilya

Yashin is absolutely right about this. Let's watch

literally one minute from his

speech; if anyone hasn't seen it, watch

the whole thing—it's a very good speech.

For now, here's the short version.

Hello everyone, my name is Ilya Yashin, and I

am forced to address all residents

of Moscow in connection with the lawlessness that

the mayor's office has created around the event called the Day

of Free Elections on December 24. Using the example

of the Krasnoselsky District, it is important for us

to clearly demonstrate how

normal deputies differ from

the tiresome United Russia party members, and how

a deputy who truly

represents his voters can work. They were

appointed by the administration's decision, whereas we, in

accordance with our lawful

powers, initiated on December 24

a district holiday, the Day of Free Elections.

And as soon as we made this—I emphasize—

legal decision of a lawfully elected

council of deputies,

the mayor's office effectively declared war on us.

For the mayor's office, it is fundamentally important to confirm

its monopoly right to approve

any street activity, whether

rallies and marches or a district holiday.

So let no one in the mayor's office or in United Russia

harbor any illusions: we will stand our ground

and defend the rights of local self-government

with all our strength. On December 24 at 3:00 p.m., I will be

at Lermontov Square. I am sure that

together with me there will be truly

independent deputies, my neighbors, and

citizens who believe in Russia's future.

We have raised a truly important issue,

so I ask everyone to help spread

this video.

That was amazing, because I can remember, unlike

Putin, even though I'm not

being interrupted. Actually, that's not true—I have already forgotten half

the questions. There was a question about... well, alright.

Um, and with everyone who won the contest

we'll settle up this week. There was a question

about

the law on animal cruelty.

Of course, I support it. There was also a question

just now, I think, about the fact that

in Stavropol people are for you—thank you—about the fact that

you have enough time for Chaika and Medvedev

but not for Shariy. Yes, that's absolutely true. I

would like to concentrate on

Medvedev, Chaika, and everyone else. So, now about

Yashin.

You know, as I would put it, for me

there is an important event on Sunday, and I

cannot do anything that

would allow our esteemed police officers

and everyone else to detain me before the 24th for

some kind of call to go somewhere or do something—I think that

on the 24th, by law, and the event is being organized by

the deputies of the Krasnoselsky District, and they

are doing a great job. I know that already

right now they’ve already brought in

an ad—I won’t read it—they’ve already brought in

a pen, or pressed the button to record

What would you say, Navalny? I’d put it this way:

under no circumstances should you come to

the Day, the holiday of free elections, but I cannot

under any circumstances call on people to come to this

Day of Free Elections in anger

Lermontovsky Square at 3:00 p.m. on December 24

Let’s all make sure that

please, don’t be Putin—sorry

please, Happy New Year in advance

Luzin and Mari Anatolyevna, I’m not Putin

Let’s all make it so that as few

Muscovites as possible find out about this

wonderful, great holiday—the Day

of Free Elections, which will take place at

Lermontovsky Square, near Krasnye Vorota metro station

at 3:00 p.m. on the 24th, because

such great municipal

deputies will be speaking up for their rights there

there will be many of them, from different districts, and

of course, let’s absolutely not

do anything that would make lots of people

come there. I know that Yashin will be there, and I

think he’s doing a great job. I wouldn’t

put it exactly like that, very clearly. I have

plans on the 24th, in the morning, but I think

that I personally, for this holiday on the 24th at

3:00 p.m.—Turgenevsky

Square—Lermontovsky, sorry

Lermontovsky Square, Krasnye Vorota metro station

I think I might make it, but of course I

don’t want you to do everything possible so that

more people find out about it

I’m certainly not urging you to come to

this event, because it is a very

proper and good event, of course

you definitely should never go to proper

good, honest events

Have you seen the film *The Fool*? There was a line in it:

“Things here will never be any different, never.”

What do you think—are there any chances of bringing

order to Russia, raising salaries, and so on?

Is that unrealistic? An excellent closing

question. It is realistic, and for it to become

real, we have to do the right

things. So please take part in

the initiative groups supporting my nomination

in 20 cities across Russia. Do the right

things, and we do not want some lines

from the film *The Fool* to hang over us, over

our lives. This is our country.

Under no circumstances, in no case,

do not come on the 24th to Lermontovsky

Square, and make sure that as few

people as possible do not come there with you

See you next Thursday. I won’t

make such a stupid mistake again and read

all the questions one after another. Thank you very much.

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