An atmosphere of total intolerance toward corruption
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Hello, this is Alexei Navalny, and here with me in the
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studio is the press secretary to the President of Russia,
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Dmitry Peskov: the fight against corruption in
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Russia is a systematic effort whose
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main goal is to create
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an atmosphere of total intolerance toward
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corruption in any of its forms. What a
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great phrase. We really burst out laughing when
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we heard it, because it was said
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by one of the most hopeless crooks and
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corrupt figures around. And where was it said? At the
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Council of Legislators, a special
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meeting on corruption issues where
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the main participants were, attention please, Vyacheslav
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Volodin, who still cannot explain to us
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the origin of this
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magnificent palace worth 152 million
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rubles (about 1.5 million USD), Valentina Matviyenko, whose son became
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the leading property developer in St. Petersburg
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when she was governor there. And then
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the man chairing this anti-corruption meeting
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was the mafia boss himself, Vladimir Putin.
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Listing his wealth would
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simply take more time than this video allows.
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It’s all horribly funny, and it perfectly
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shows that there will be no fight against
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corruption under the current authorities,
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and there cannot be one. But the phrase itself
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really is great, and you know what I
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thought? Let’s make it the official
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goal of our June 12 rallies. Already 91
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cities have signed up to hold events. I’m
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sure there will be more. It’s Russia Day, the
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official national holiday. We are coming out
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under flags, and in the rally application we will
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write, in the Kremlin’s own words, that the purpose of the rally
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is to create an atmosphere of total
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intolerance toward corruption in any of its
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forms. And at the rallies we will say—well,
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just as it is—that we regard with total
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intolerance Medvedev’s palaces, yachts, and
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vineyards. We regard with
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total intolerance the watch on Dmitry Peskov’s wrist
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worth 37 million rubles (about 370,000 USD),
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his honeymoon on a yacht, whose weekly
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rental costs 26 million rubles (about 260,000 USD), and his
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house worth 1 billion rubles (about 10 million USD). We
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regard with total intolerance the fact
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that our Minister of Agriculture is
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at the same time both a minister and the largest
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landowner in Russia. We regard with this
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total intolerance
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the seven-room apartment of the head of the
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Pension Fund, worth 240 million rubles (about 2.4 million USD).
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We also regard with total intolerance
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Vladimir Putin himself, who made
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all his friends and
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neighbors in his dacha cooperative (a country-home association) billionaires, and made his
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son-in-law the youngest dollar
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billionaire in Russia. And in general, we regard with
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total intolerance
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the corruption that is ruining our country and
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making the population poor while turning a narrow group of
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officials into the super-rich. Just think about it:
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how could they possibly deny us permission to hold
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rallies on such a theme? You could say we are
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directly carrying out an instruction from
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the Kremlin. If, for example, Dmitry
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Medvedev came out to one of our rallies—oh, I think
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he would encounter such total intolerance
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that he’d be lucky to get away in one piece. In the
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description of this video there is a link to
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groups organizing rallies in different
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cities across Russia. Can’t find your
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city? Great—submit the application yourself,
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contact us yourself, and that means you will be
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the organizer of the rally where you are. It doesn’t matter
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how big your town or settlement is,
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it doesn’t matter how many people come—for
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creating an atmosphere of total
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intolerance toward corruption, even solo
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pickets may do just fine.
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The main thing is: don’t be afraid, and be
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active. Because if we remain
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silent, then the fight against corruption, instead of us, will continue to be handled by
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Putin, Volodin,
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Matviyenko, and Peskov. Subscribe to our
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channel—here they tell
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the truth.