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Hi, this is Georgy Alburov, and I want
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to talk to you about patriots — but not
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the kind who want us to have
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good roads and new hospitals, and for our
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pensioners to spend their savings on
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boring retirement cruises around
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the Caribbean. Let's talk about those who
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love wrapping themselves up
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so fanatically that they foam at the mouth, insisting that anyone who
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says to them, "Guys, you're thieves," is actually
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someone who hates Russia, while the greater
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patriot, in their view, is the one with a house on Rublyovka (an elite, ultra-wealthy area outside Moscow),
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a luxurious lifestyle, and who shouts the loudest about
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their love for Putin. Actually, the idea for this
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video came to me completely
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by accident. A couple of days ago, we were flying over
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Rublyovka with my friend Volodya — there he is,
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by the way — looking around, and below us was
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Rublyovka. Suddenly, some pro-Putin
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patriot seemed to be lurking there, and then my eye fell on
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a painfully familiar silhouette. Wait — that's
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old man Sablin's house. "What Sablin? Who the hell
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is that, anyway?" you're probably
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asking. Well, I'll tell you. Here he is:
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the Anti-Maidan movement, a State Duma deputy
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from United Russia, and until recently
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he was a senator. And
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attention — this is the title I like
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most of all: he is the head of
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United Russia's Patriotic Platform.
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This patriot has been hanging around in public office
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for the last 18 years. Now let's take a look at
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the house of a man who has absolutely no right
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to be involved in business and who has been
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serving as a deputy for the last 15 years.
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Let's take a closer look. This is Rublyovka,
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the village of Zhukovka. Here, on a plot of almost
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9,000 square meters, Sablin built his house. The house itself
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for a very long time was not
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listed in his official disclosures until our Anti-Corruption Foundation
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wrote about this
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house, and the next year — miracle of miracles — the house
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appeared in his declaration. Its area is
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2,626 square meters. There's also a guest house and
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an outbuilding, with a combined area of
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about 700 square meters. And of course,
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what kind of head of United Russia's patriotic
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platform would he be without his own
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pond on Rublyovka and, by the way, a swimming pool too?
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Why invite sideways glances from your colleagues
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in the party, whispering behind your back,
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"Just look at this
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unreliable one." You know, all of this is rather
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sad. And I'm not even talking about the architecture
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of Sablin's house — though that too
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raises questions. What's sad is that for
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people in power, this kind of
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showy patriotism has become a way
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to acquire and protect their property. If
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you've stolen something and want to protect it, join
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United Russia. If you want to steal even
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more, become a deputy. And if you've gone so far as to
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head the Anti-Maidan movement and
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United Russia's Patriotic Platform,
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then that's it: anyone who asks you, "Man,
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where did you get a house on Rublyovka? And how does your
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boss Medvedev have palaces, yachts,
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and vineyards worth 70 billion rubles?" becomes
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automatically transformed into
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a revolutionary and an enemy of Russia. But that's
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not normal. We cannot allow these
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crooks and thieves to equate covering up
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their theft with defending the public
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interest. The Anti-Corruption Foundation has for many years
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been exposing crooks like
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Sablin and his buddies from
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United Russia, who lecture us
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about fake patriotism while thinking only about how
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to grab a bigger piece for themselves. In 2018, Russia will hold
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a presidential election, and
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Alexei Navalny will take part in it.
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But to do that, he needs your
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signature. So if, like us, you don't like it when
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officials, from behind their
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six-meter fences, lecture us on how
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to love our country, sign here
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and subscribe to our channel here.
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They tell the truth here.