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Right now, we're going to conduct an important
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experiment. Our signature wallet.
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With a little duck, we take a credit card out of it.
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We go over: Hello, could I please have one of
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these sandwiches?
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How much is it? 67 rubles (about $0.75). On my
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card, there were definitely exactly 67 rubles (about $0.75).
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Insufficient funds. Maybe something didn't
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work. Let's try again.
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No money. This is what happens when the authorities
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celebrate the anniversary of the release of the investigation
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**He Is Not Dimon to You** (a famous anti-corruption investigation about Dmitry Medvedev) — it came out exactly 3 years
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ago.
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And today, all the money was stolen from my card.
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I don't know whether this is really connected to
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the anniversary of **He Is Not Dimon to You**,
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or whether this is just a routine crackdown on those who
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fight corruption, but I have just
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learned that all of
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my bank cards, my wife's,
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and my retired parents' have been completely blocked. And the most
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absurd part is that even my 11-year-old son
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Zakhar's. Well, “absurd” isn't really the right word — he is not amused at all.
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He's furious. We specifically
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opened a children's account for him and regularly
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gave him 5,000 rubles (about $55) at a time toward a new
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computer, and he had already saved up 30,000 rubles (about $330),
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which Putin has now gotten his hands on.
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They didn't just go after my relatives.
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Actually, they forgot about me. This morning I
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woke up, left the dormitory,
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went to buy myself breakfast, and there was no money on
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my card. Putin stole both my breakfast and
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dinner at once. The account of Ivan Zhdanov's father (Ivan Zhdanov is a close Navalny ally) was also arrested,
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too.
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And the 5,000 rubles (about $55) that were there were stolen as well.
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His father's account was also frozen, and on top of that,
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I have just learned that
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I am being sued
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by oligarch Oleg Deripaska. I don't yet know
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what he wants, but apparently the Kremlin taught him
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a few things. Formally, all these
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account freezes are being carried out as part of the so-called
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criminal case against the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation). Under it,
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personal accounts had already been frozen before
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for hundreds of people, to the point that
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they even froze child benefits and
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survivor's benefits.
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My accounts had not been frozen before because
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even Putin's lying judges, after going through
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all the financial records of me and my family, can see
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that I have never in my life received
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a single kopeck from the Foundation, even though they lie endlessly
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that I live off donations, when in
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fact I make donations myself, like many
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of you, but I have never taken a
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single kopeck from it. But then again, the Kremlin has long since stopped
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even trying
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to pretend there is any legality here.
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By the way, I don't rule out that **He Is Not
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Dimon to You**
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really is just a coincidence, and that Putin
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is furious because we recently found
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and published proof that
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his new prime minister,
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Mishustin, bought several apartments a few years ago in
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New York
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using money that had been siphoned out of
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Russia through tax schemes, exactly at the
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time when Mishustin was head of the
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tax service. So they decided, as
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a retaliatory gesture, to make life as difficult as possible
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not only for me, but also for my
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parents, who now cannot even receive their pensions.
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But yes, for some time we'll have to
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improvise. I have no
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shadow capital. I try not to
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keep cash, and for now it's not very
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clear how to pay, for example, for a rented
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apartment
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or even just go to the store for
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groceries. Nevertheless, I want to say
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to that whole gang of thieves sitting in the
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Kremlin: don't worry.
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Both I and all my colleagues will get through this
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situation, and we still will not leave you
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in peace. This is our country, and even though you have
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subjugated the courts, the police, and television,
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you still remain
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a bunch of thieves and occupiers. At the end of this video,
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I would like to call on all of you to support
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us — not me personally.
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Please send money to the Anti-Corruption Foundation
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and to support our regional штабs (campaign offices).
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But to make it easier for you
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to decide how much to send us,
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here's what you can do: think of
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any number and multiply it by the number of
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those masked idlers who
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stormed our office the last time.
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Stay with us — a new
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investigation is coming soon.
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but
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