How I made money off the fools at LifeNews
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It was my wife's birthday, and we
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decided to go to
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France for a few days. But as you know, the authorities
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scrutinize my every move under
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a microscope, and of course the pro-Kremlin
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TV channel LifeNews immediately announced
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a reward:
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50,000 rubles (about $800 at the time) to anyone who sent them a video of
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Navalny filmed anywhere in the world.
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The main condition was that the date had to be visible and that it had to be
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clear where the video was shot. And so,
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today the shocking
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report finally came out: how Navalny is vacationing
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abroad—apparently as a response to yesterday's
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investigation about Peskov (Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary), and
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just imagine,
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it even includes video. As Life
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News reported, it was sent to them by a certain citizen
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journalist.
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There I am, walking through the streets of the French city of
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Rouen. What a journalistic coup. Who could
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who could this lucky person be who secretly
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filmed me and earned 50,000 rubles (about $800) from it? But
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we are, after all, the Anti-Corruption Foundation,
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we know how to find people, and this morning we made
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every effort to find
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the person who filmed me. We managed
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to do it, and we even got the full version
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of this video, and we are happy,
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very happy, to show it to you.
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[music]
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Maybe
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I love you.
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Alexei, Alexei, what won't you do
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I'm trying to earn 50,000 rubles (about $800)
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from LifeNews footage. As you understand,
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it was filmed by my wife Yulia, and this is a
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great moment to brag:
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just imagine, I made money off those crooks
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at LifeNews—50,000 rubles (about $800)—and
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sent it to my election campaign fund.
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But the best part of this
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story is that LifeNews cheated us too, and
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to the person who sent them this video
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under the guise of a citizen journalist,
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they transferred not 50,000
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but 10,000 rubles (about $160)—so it's just some kind of
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triple scam, really the height of it. Needless
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to say, the details described in the article
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about my stay in the city of
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Rouen, with lunches at Michelin-starred restaurants
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in the company of certain representatives
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of the regional elite, are of course completely
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made up
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from the first word to the last. In other words,
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exactly as expected.
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The Kremlin-aligned LifeNews are crooks, fabricating
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news and scammers who cheat
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even those who help them. On the other
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hand, as the saying goes, even a mangy sheep yields a tuft of wool.
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Those 10,000 rubles (about $160) are going to the campaign fund.
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