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Hi, this is Navalny, and this is my beauty
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blog. As a stylish guy, I decided to start one too
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of my own.
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A beauty blog—well, almost. Actually, I
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was definitely not planning to launch a beauty blog,
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but the moment has come when even we can
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talk about detox, herbal tea,
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and weight loss. The reason is that Ksenia
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Sobchak recently told a story about how
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she and her husband went to an elite
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Italian resort specializing in
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health and detox treatments, and there she
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ran into—who would have thought it—one of the closest
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associates of Vladimir Putin, a fiery
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patriot and great lover of public
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money, Igor Ivanovich Sechin. “I saw him,” she said,
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“standing by the kettle with some tea that stimulates
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the removal of all toxins, so to speak.”
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Sechin. Sechin. I saw Sechin. And this
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might have seemed like a purely private matter,
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not really worthy of our attention, if not for the fact that
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first, as Sobchak herself pointed out,
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Sechin flew to the resort on a
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business jet belonging to
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the state oil company
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Rosneft. “As I was leaving, I saw—what do you think?”
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“A Rosneft plane. So clearly he was doing this
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as if it were a business trip.” And second, this is
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the very same Sechin who so resolutely
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condemns the West, who speaks so contemptuously
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about foreign sanctions, and who so passionately,
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together with his boss Putin,
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defends this supposed
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Eurasian model of development. “It is not the company
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Rosneft that is the target of these sanctions, but
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Russia’s implementation of its own sovereign,
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independent
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policy, and an attempt
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to worsen the economic situation of our
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citizens.” And yet, imagine that—he didn’t go to
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a local public clinic, and he didn’t travel
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somewhere like Kislovodsk (a Russian spa town) to smear himself
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with healing mud, or to Siberia
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to rub himself with cedar cones,
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which supposedly contain all the power of nature. No, he got
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on a private jet and flew to Europe, where that very
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detestable democracy reigns, along with
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that accursed freedom of speech. And meanwhile, just
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the market cost of this
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private jet trip
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amounts to several million rubles. That
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means that, in effect, our
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state company Rosneft
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paid those millions for
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Sechin’s desire to look good.
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And this minor fact, really,
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about Sechin’s life, it seems to me, simply
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completely
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completes the portrait of an official who acts like the master
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of modern Russia. This is a man who
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can do nothing and knows nothing. His
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only merit is
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that he once carried Putin’s
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briefcase. Then he was put in charge of
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a state company, which he treats
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as his personal property, and
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pays himself a salary of 2.5 million
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rubles a day. I made a special video
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about that—you can watch it later.
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Then he buys himself a yacht for 8.5 billion
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rubles and names it after his wife,
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Princess Olga. We also have
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a video about that—you can watch it later too.
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Then he builds himself an estate so lavish that
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the land alone is worth almost 4 billion rubles.
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We covered that too—you can
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watch it. He runs the state
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company—Rosneft in particular—
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with absolute incompetence, and by the end of
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2016, Rosneft’s total debt
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had reached 3.5 trillion rubles,
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setting a new all-time record. Even after
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ceasing to be a government official, he still
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drives around in a car with a flashing beacon. And when
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asked, “Why are you doing that? On what
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grounds?” he answers all of us to our
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faces: “That’s none of your business.” “On what grounds?”
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“No, I cannot, and I will not, and I am not obliged
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to explain that.” He goes off to
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Italian resorts where he is massaged,
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rubbed with oils, and wrapped in fragrant
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sheets, all so that he can come back here
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looking more handsome and smoother,
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and appear on television here telling people
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that Russia must unite
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around President Putin and tighten
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its belts for the sake of the dear party and government.
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But it’s all disgusting, isn’t it? And
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it’s impossible to put up with. I don’t
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like any of this either. And then you’ll ask me:
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“So when will all this end?” And I’ll answer you:
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never. Never. It really
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will never end as long as Putin remains in power, and
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that is something we need to understand very clearly.
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Because Sechin specifically is one of Putin’s closest
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associates and his wallet, because
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for the last 17 years, Putin’s entire system of power
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has done nothing but create people like Sechin
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and provide them with comfort in life and
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immunity, and nothing will ever happen to
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them as long as this regime
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remains in power. That is why
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this government must be changed. I stand for that, and
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I urge you to support me in it.
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In that sense, I become president, and you
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will very soon all simply see how Sechin and his
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crowd go not to Italy, but
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in a completely different direction—and
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certainly not on private jets. For
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that to happen, let’s unite.
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Let’s not stay silent—let’s be outraged,
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let’s spread information. Let’s
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sign in support of my
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nomination—I really, really need those signatures.
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