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So, this is a video that will violate several
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court rulings at once.
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Why am I recording it? Because
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I don't like thieves and corrupt officials. And
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I dislike Russian courts even more
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when they cover for these thieves and
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corrupt officials. For example, look
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at this face. This is Igor Sechin, the head
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of the state-owned company Rosneft,
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Russia's largest oil company and
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one of the largest oil companies
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in the world. Recently, several
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different media outlets published fairly
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credible investigations into the lifestyle
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of Sechin—his yacht, his new wife,
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his house, and his unimaginably huge
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salary. What do you think
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this crook did? Do you think he felt ashamed
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and decided to be more modest? No, he sued
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every one of those outlets, and
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the corrupt Russian courts not only
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forced them to retract what they had written, but also—
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in an unprecedented move in Russia—they
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ordered the physical destruction
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of the newspaper *Vedomosti* that wrote about Sechin's
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house on Rublyovka (an elite residential area outside Moscow). By the way, we
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filmed that house, and we're about to show it to you. So
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let me repeat what all Russian citizens
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should know about Igor Sechin, and
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ask you to tell as many
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people around you about it as possible. And
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as for the shameless Russian courts, you and I will
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collectively tell them to go to hell.
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Forbidden fact number one: love and
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a yacht. This is Igor Sechin's new wife,
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a lovely young woman named
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Olga. This is her photo from Instagram.
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The magnificent man Igor Sechin likes
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lavish gifts, and the wonderful Olga
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suddenly gets a beautiful yacht, which is actually
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called *Princess Olga*. The yacht is registered
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to an offshore company in the Cayman Islands and costs
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about $150 million. Those are the kinds of gifts
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the head
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of a state corporation can afford, and he quite clearly
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—you can just feel it—wants to call
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himself Prince Igor.
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Forbidden fact number two: the house on
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Rublyovka. It was precisely because the newspaper
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*Vedomosti* simply wrote about this house
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that the entire print run of that issue had to be
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completely destroyed. But we're even showing you
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what it all looks like. Sechin's estate
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is located among the estates of others like him
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and is occupied by a massive future mansion.
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The value of the house and the land already
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amounts to no less than
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3.8 billion rubles. Forbidden fact number
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three—and here I will finally answer
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the question that has probably been bothering you since
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the very beginning of this video: what are
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those numbers running along the bottom? Well, that's
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my friends, a counter showing how much
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Igor Ivanovich Sechin has earned in the time
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you've been watching this video. When
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*Forbes* magazine wrote that Igor
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Sechin had set his own salary at $50 million
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a year, our hero used the courts
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to force them to delete that information. $50
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million a year, at the exchange rate at
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the time, came to 5 million rubles a day. I'm not
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mistaken, I didn't misspeak: exactly 5 million rubles
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a day. That's the salary he set for himself—
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a man heading a state-owned
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company. And on top of all that, and this is already
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the fourth fact—not forbidden at all, but
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well known to everyone—Sechin has completely
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failed at his job in Rosneft. He is
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a pointless and talentless manager.
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He got the position because for many years
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he was Putin's secretary. He ran
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his reception office, carried his bags,
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proved his loyalty, and got this
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juicy, lucrative prize. Rosneft is drowning in
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debt, it signs extremely unfavorable
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contracts, and the productivity of its oil
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wells—which is the most important indicator
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of a company's efficiency—keeps steadily declining.
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They are underpaying dividends into the budget. Well,
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it's a state-owned company—they
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are supposed to give their profits to shareholders,
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first and foremost to the state. But what state?
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What public-sector workers? What
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military personnel? What veterans? When there are
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far more important priority expenses: yachts,
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houses, and the other charming little pleasures
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of officials. In closing, I would once again like
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to send my regards to Igor Ivanovich
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Sechin and his pocket courts. You can
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win in them as much as you like. But you still
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won't be able to make us stay silent.
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Subscribe to our channel—the channel where
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the truth is told. Uh-huh.