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Hi, I’ve just come back from the Lyublinsky District Court in Moscow.
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There, in a lawsuit filed by billionaire Alisher
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Usmanov, a decision was made ordering
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me and the Anti-Corruption Foundation to remove
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our film *He Is Not Dimon to You* and the entire
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investigation accompanying the film, including
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all the documents related to the court case itself. I
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won’t go on about it for long. You can
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read about it on my blog or in the newspapers.
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I’ll just say this: the atmosphere in the courtroom
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is best captured by a joke I
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read on Twitter: Why does Usmanov need
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a lawyer if he already has the judge? Our
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witnesses were not called, our documents were not
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accepted into the record, and our motions were denied
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in twenty-two cases. And the funniest part is that the court
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refused even to watch the film *He Is Not
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Dimon to You*, whose removal it
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had just ordered. Now let me answer the question: will
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you, Alexei, comply with the court’s ruling? Well,
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what do you think yourselves? Of course not. Under no
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circumstances will I remove either our film
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or our investigation. I do not recognize this court ruling.
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In fact, I do not recognize this as a court at all.
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These are simply the actions of Medvedev’s servants
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with the aim
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of covering things up. And I ask you to help me with this, since
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they want to ban it. Well then, let’s answer them
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with a new wave
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of sharing links to our film. And most importantly,
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how should we respond to them
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if the court’s ruling effectively sounds like this:
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“Be silent. Don’t say a single word to us
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about corruption. You must sit quietly
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at home, and if you so much as
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write one word on the internet about how we steal, we
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will delete it.” Well, the natural response to that
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is of course the words: “No, we
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will not be silent.” And those words
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must be said not at home in front of your computer monitor
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but out in the street. Remember, the main reason
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they steal is that
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we stay silent. We need to stop being silent. On June 12,
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I’ll see you in the streets of cities across our
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country. Subscribe to our channel — here
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they tell
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the truth. L