USMANOV II: Pah on You Once Again
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Apparently, soon my entire channel will be
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made up exclusively of emergency
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episodes, because the richest man
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in Russia and the UK, the oligarch, and also
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aspiring video blogger Alisher Usmanov,
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continues to record his
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video addresses to me. Just now
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another one came out under the code name
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"Shame on You Once Again," and once again I, as an
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honest man, am obliged to show you this
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video address in full. But first,
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a couple of brief remarks. First, Alisher
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Burkhanovich was very sorry that you
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refused a debate. Although I appreciate that you
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correctly described the reason: it would be a debate
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between truth and lies. Exactly so, and people
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can easily tell your lies apart, which is why you
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got scared. Shame on you. Second: what
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documents do you keep talking about? In
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our investigation *He Is Not Dimon to You* (a reference to Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption film about Dmitry Medvedev), there are
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lots of documents. There is even a special
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file with documents. But in your videos I
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see, well, only a table and a glass, and
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endless chatter about some documents
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that no one has seen. Shame on you.
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Third, Alisher Burkhanovich, there will be an answer for you—
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just wait a little. At the head of Russia
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there are many corrupt officials right now; I can’t
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drop everything and deal only with you. You
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may be a major crook, but don’t flatter yourself—
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you are far from the most important. Shame on you. And
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even in our investigation into Medvedev’s palaces and
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yachts, you gave a bribe in the form
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of one of the many estates that we
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describe. My main goal, our
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main goal, remains those who received
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bribes, although we will punish people
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like you too—the ones who gave bribes. As for a
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response, I’ll put one out for you. Be patient. You
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live in comfort, so relax. And
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lastly, please stop
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artificially inflating the likes on your videos.
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It’s undignified. Now let’s watch Usmanov’s
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address to
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me. Navalny is a very bad person,
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he should be
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removed from the face of the earth altogether. No, that sounds similar, but
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that’s not the video. Please play Usmanov’s
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video.
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Hello. Thank you to everyone who supported
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my video address. Thank you also to those who
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simply found the time to watch it.
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Thank you even to those who, after watching it, expressed
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very unflattering opinions and
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descriptions of me. Still, it was very important for me
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as I said then, to tell you
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the truth and defend myself against lies and
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insults. As for a response
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from Alexei Navalny, I was actually expecting
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an apology, not a debate, and instead
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I heard yet more insults from him,
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lies, cheap populism, all sorts of
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statements like, "You stole ore from us,"
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or "Where did your first money come from?" Or even,
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"Where did the first million come from?" The point was not that everyone—
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everyone stole, therefore Usmanov stole.
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Honestly, a long time ago already
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the great Russian writer
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Bulgakov, in the novella *Heart of a Dog*, described
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such a character, with enormous devastation in
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his head—Polygraph Sharikov—who
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dreamed only of taking and dividing everything. So you,
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Alexei Polygraphovich, are becoming quite
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a worthy successor. But whereas Sharikov
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was simply a foolish, uneducated
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demagogue in the book, and
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yes,
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when your lies are refuted by someone
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holding documents in their hands, you begin
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to panic, in my view, and say that you are being
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threatened. It’s absurd. Or, as in the case
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of the fabricated rape conviction article,
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you were caught lying. Your own readers immediately
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did too. You hide behind a book by the British ambassador,
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in which he supposedly wrote about it,
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and then we find out there is nothing of the sort in that
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book.
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So once again, this is just another
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lie. And it’s like this with everything you say—with salaries,
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with miners, and with
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the industrial plant—maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t. And
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the moment anything comes up, it’s "I didn’t make it up, everyone
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says so, we all say so." Who is this "we"? What mythical
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"we"? It’s not everyone. In any case, it was you who lied
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personally, and it is you who must apologize
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personally. And in general, take the first step.
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Just say at least, "I was mistaken"—you’ll feel better.
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Alexei Polygraphovich Navalny. And anyway,
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what debate? It would be the same as holding
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a debate between truth and
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lies. Our debate now will take place
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in court. Especially since you are trying
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every day to provide as many grounds as possible
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for that. There they will explain to you
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the difference between truth and lies, Alexei
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Polygraphovich Navalny. Shame on you once
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again.