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Hello, this is Alexei Navalny, and now I
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will present you with irrefutable
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proof that our country is
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occupied, and that President Putin is personally
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involved. The people who received
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the most money from this very
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system of state procurement, from the state
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budget. But first, let me remind you what
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state procurement is. The state
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is constantly buying things. It spends money on
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all sorts of things: it buys schools,
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it buys bridges, tunnels, wires,
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paper clips, pens, cars for officials.
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A trillion rubles is spent on this.
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When the state says, "We built a
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school," that simply means it
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ordered someone to build a school,
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paid some commercial
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company to build it, and so
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the total amount of money spent
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on purchasing government goods and
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services is what state procurement is: trillions of rubles.
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Now let's take a look at who those
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lucky people are who received the most
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money through state procurement.
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We'll look only at the top five, and like in an
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old-fashioned music countdown,
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we'll do it in reverse. In fifth place
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in our ranking is Igor Rotenberg, or
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Rotenberg Jr. He is the son of the famous
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Arkady Rotenberg, an old St. Petersburg
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friend of Vladimir Putin. The younger Rotenberg
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is a rather empty and
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useless figure. He represents the interests
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of his father, but he has still managed to become quite
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notorious for introducing the Platon system
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that collects money from truck drivers across the country.
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I made a separate video about that,
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you can
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watch it. In the ranking of the kings
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of state procurement, Putin's friend's son is in fourth
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place. In fourth place we have a truly
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remarkable character: President Putin's son-in-law
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named Kirill Shamalov. Shamalov became related to
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the president not so long ago, but as
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you can see, he wastes no time, and over the last
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year he received state contracts worth
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148 billion rubles, and that's only in government contracts.
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You can watch the video about how I even
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sued Vladimir Putin over
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the fact that he transferred to his
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wonderful son-in-law $2 billion from the
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National
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Welfare Fund. Fourth place: Putin's son-in-law.
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Third place: out of the budget, 161 billion rubles went to
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Putin's friend Gennady
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Timchenko, one of the businessmen closest to him.
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Some even call him
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"Putin's wallet." He made his first billions
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by reselling Russian oil
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through a Swiss offshore company, but now, as
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you can see, he profits from state procurement.
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Interestingly, despite being so close
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to the president and to Russian citizens' money,
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Timchenko gave up his Russian
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citizenship and became a citizen of Finland.
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A typical patriot. Third place:
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Putin's friend. In second place is Leonid
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Mikhelson. He is a fairly well-known figure in the
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oil and gas business. He received
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344 billion rubles in state
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money. Let's be objective and honestly say:
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he is neither Putin's friend nor his relative.
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He is simply one of the oil oligarchs.
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Second place: a veteran of the raw materials
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industry. And in first place—the place
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of the king of state procurement—there
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could simply be no other person than
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Arkady Rotenberg, Vladimir Putin's oldest and closest
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friend. He received 555
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billion rubles. It is his son who holds the fifth
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spot in our ranking. Arkady
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Rotenberg is no businessman at all. He was
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a nobody until his friend, patron, and
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judo partner, Vladimir Putin, did not
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come to power. But when that
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happened, Rotenberg's fortune began
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to grow in simply fantastic
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fashion. Now he is one of the richest
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people in the country, whose interests are present everywhere
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there is state money that can
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be skimmed off—from supplying pipes to
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Gazprom to building the bridge to Crimea.
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For this man, the light is always green.
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In a sense, all power in Russia
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now exists so that
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Rotenberg can, like a pump, transfer money
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from our pockets into his own. First place in the
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ranking of the kings of state procurement: the closest
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friend of Vladimir Putin. To sum up, there are
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five main recipients of state
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money. Last year, together they
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received 1.3 trillion rubles. Of these five
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people, four are Putin's friends, and one more is
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Putin's friend's son and Putin's son-in-law.
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All these people are not some kind of
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brilliant businessmen. They control
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our money not because they invented something,
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achieved something, or because
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they are good or smart. They are simply standing at
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the feeding trough because they were put there
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by the president of our country. That is why I
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believe that the regime in our country can confidently
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be called
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an occupying one, a kind of family-based
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mafia system designed to siphon
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resources from the population and take them for itself.
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This is a real occupation, and I
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maintain that this could not have happened
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by accident. How could it happen by chance
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that all state procurement would be divided up by
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people close to Putin? It happened because
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Vladimir Putin personally placed
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people close to him over all the money flows,
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and this is outright corruption, and Putin is not merely
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connected to it—he
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organizes this corruption. He is the
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chief mafioso standing at the top.
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They won’t explain this scheme like this on television.
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