Nailya and Svetlana are flying above us, Medvedev and Ivleeva, a Nashi activist in Germany

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Good evening, everyone. In Moscow, it's exactly 8:00 p.m.

which means that we're live on air

with the program *Russia of the Future*, and I am the host,

Alexei Navalny, or "the aging blond,"

as I was called

by Margarita Simonyan during our

rather amusing exchange on the social

network Twitter, where, it seemed to me,

I made a fairly successful joke. All of this was

connected to Medvedev's plane, and today we will discuss it.

Today I will have a guest,

Georgy Alburov, and together we will discuss

the details of how we conducted

the investigation into Navalny's—sorry, into the plane, the yacht,

everything else, and also Svetlana

Medvedeva's plane. And on top of that, in connection with

this, we have a prize giveaway in our

store. There's a new

collection: T-shirts, absolutely

wonderful ones,

and there is—I'm not sure I can even say this

word live on air—a bandana. I don't know

why bandanas exist in this world at all.

What's more, tomorrow I will post on my Instagram

a photo.

Don't get your hopes up, of course, that I—

our guys did, after all, make me

put the bandana on—not on my head, no, on my

arm, actually—but I still

felt rather strange.

But anyway, a T-shirt, a T-shirt, and

a bandana—we're giving them away, we're

inviting you to take part in this

giveaway. To participate,

you simply need to go below and

look in the description, follow the link,

send us a donation of any amount there,

starting from 200 rubles (about $2), and guess which place,

which next city the plane will fly to.

Absolutely wonderful.

The wonderful TV host—Navalny, of course—

which city will the plane fly to

of Svetlana Medvedeva?

Well, Svetlana's plane is nicer,

so the T-shirt goes to whoever guesses

Navalny's plane, and the bandana to whoever guesses

Medvedeva's plane.

But one important thing that Georgy Alburov asked me

to clarify: except for Moscow

and St. Petersburg, because right now these

planes are currently in Dubai and somewhere

in the Netherlands, so to Moscow and

St. Petersburg they will most definitely

return. Those two cities do not

count—you cannot guess them.

All other cities are fair game, please.

Imagine yourself as Navalny—or rather,

imagine yourself as Svetlana Medvedeva.

Think about where you would like to fly

to relax or hang out, write it in, and maybe

you'll guess correctly. Next time, accordingly,

in the next broadcast I will say who our

winners are, we'll sum it up, and we will hand out

these wonderful T-shirts and other prizes.

Please send your questions on Twitter with

the hashtag #RussiaOfTheFuture; I will

put them on screen and read them. Once again,

I remind you that all the conditions

for participating in the giveaway are below in

the description of this broadcast. Well then, let's begin with

today's live broadcast. I wasn't the only one

who was live today. First, as a kind of warm-up,

Dmitry

Anatolyevich Medvedev appeared before me.

Let's be honest: it was a weak performance, and the most

interesting thing about Medvedev's broadcast

was exactly what he did not want: the audience was

running wild in that chat column on

YouTube—and everywhere else too. I mistakenly wrote on

Twitter that it was only there,

on NTV's YouTube channel, that they had opened

the chat. But it was also open on Rossiya 24 and

on some others as well—everywhere.

Thank you very much, huge thanks

to everyone who took part in this

action.

Demanding that journalists ask

Medvedev about Svetlana Medvedeva's plane.

We, in fact, from Medvedev

were not able to get an answer to this

question, but it was simply wonderful

to watch. So let's

just take a few seconds to see

what this broadcast looked like and how people

were reacting in the chat.

For the purpose of coordinating this reform—well, he began

to talk about the garbage reform. That sounds

rather grim, so we still try

to use a different term.

It's clear that that's not the main issue, but sometimes it is

partly about that too. It really is an entire sector

that exists in practically every

developed economy, namely methods

for disposing of solid municipal waste.

I think that, of course, Dmitry Anatolyevich

Medvedev and his PR people were quite upset

today, and yesterday too, of course.

They were upset when we released our

investigation about his wife's plane, the one on which

she flies, and it's unclear who

pays for it, because there was clearly

an attempt there to boost and improve

Medvedev's image, which of course was badly

shaken—or rather, I would say it collapsed—after

our film *He Is Not Dimon to You*.

Now the whole country knows that Medvedev, despite

the fact that he may not outwardly

look like some crude crook,

is in fact one of the biggest

corrupt figures in the country. He is the leader of the ruling

party, United Russia—not Putin, but Medvedev is its

formal leader.

I don't even know whether there are plans for him

to lead United Russia into the elections in twenty

twenty-one, but nevertheless there was clearly

some kind of plan to improve his image, and we

of course disrupted that a little.

I’m asking only about the plane, and he said nothing.

He didn’t answer. I watched the whole thing, absolutely all of it.

In our coverage afterward,

of this call-in show, it was basically like:

20 TV channels and zero questions about

the plane. Of course, that says a lot. But on the one hand, I want to say it shows the terrible level

of Russian journalism; on the other hand,

when you look at all those people there,

it’s hard even to call them

journalists.

Sure, their employment records probably say

“TV journalists”,

but they’re some very strange people

who ask questions that aren’t just

pre-approved, but also completely

bland and fake. And overall it all looked

exactly why I called this segment something like

“Good Night with Dmitry Medvedev” — the only thing missing

was for Khryusha and Stepashka (characters from the Soviet/Russian children’s TV show *Good Night, Little Ones!*)

to pop out from somewhere. Honestly, it was like some kind of

God...

Timur Batrutdinov was there too, asking

some question. Anastasia Ivleeva was there too,

asking a question. Some girl

from KVN (*Club of the Funny and Inventive*, a Russian comedy TV competition) / the *Ural Dumplings* comedy show was there too.

There was also just some cute little

girl with a question — or rather, he asked her something like,

“So, little girl, what books do you read?” and the girl

said something in response.

I mean, since we know for sure that

all of this was scripted,

there was an excellent piece on this in *Proekt* (an independent Russian investigative outlet),

by the way — go read it.

You won’t have the slightest doubt

that these were prepared setups. I mean,

you understand — they told the girl:

“Little girl, Dmitry Anatolyevich (a formal way of referring to Dmitry Medvedev by first name and patronymic)

is going to ask you what books you read, and you

please answer.” And we, the viewers, are supposed to

say, “Oh my God,”

“how wonderful,”

“look, Medvedev is talking to a little girl.”

And maybe, just maybe, we won’t hate him quite so much

for stealing

several billion dollars and building

various palaces — instead we’ll love him, and

love the United Russia party too.

So yes, it was a very strange

idea. Even if there hadn’t been the whole

story about our plane, it still would have been

a super weird idea. The saddest thing for me,

besides the fact that he said nothing

about the plane, was the participation of

Anastasia Ivleeva. She’s a great

girl, really — good for her, wonderful,

funny, and most importantly, she doesn’t depend on this state

for anything, and her whole life story is one she made

herself.

She was doing manicures in St. Petersburg, then made it through

Instagram and became the main

Instagram girl, and probably the most famous

kind of

female celebrity in Russia right now.

She did all of that herself, especially at the beginning,

without television, without any kind of

support — she built it herself. Good for her, that’s cool.

Why she came and acted as a backup singer

for this crook from United Russia,

I don’t understand. Of course, she could have — she really could have —

actually asked him about the plane herself.

No one would have killed her or done anything to her.

Though clearly the Friday TV channel probably

has some leverage over her and either made her

come or persuaded her to come. She looked

pretty strange there, and clearly out of place.

It’s unclear why she did it. I mean,

it’s clear why Medvedev needed it; it’s not clear

why Ivleeva did. And I’m very upset by it.

I hope she won’t take part anymore

in things like this,

in these rather shameful

stunts where she clearly gains

nothing. In fact, Medvedev

didn’t gain anything either. Watching all of it

was very interesting, generally speaking.

With these call-in shows, you can always

cut them up somehow,

pull out some especially juicy bits, and then

tear into the person hosting the call-in show,

the way various Kremlin guys do even with my

broadcasts. And as always, it’s easy to do that with Putin,

because Putin says all sorts of strange,

meaningless, stupid, dishonest

things — little bits and pieces

you can latch onto,

pick apart, discuss for at least a few minutes.

Some phrase here, some hellish story there.

But Medvedev is, well,

just such a

completely useless guy — he simply said

nothing interesting. Apparently the whole

PR strategy was to say absolutely nothing

sharp, nothing irritating,

and nothing interesting, because, well,

they’re afraid Medvedev might blurt out something wrong.

The only thing, of course, that caught my attention

there was

an interesting bit of reasoning from him about

healthcare. Let’s listen to how

Medvedev talks about it. It was supposed to be

some kind of “human moment” there,

where he simply

decided to speak human-to-human and explain how he

actually knows that in

Russia healthcare is in bad shape, how hard things are

for the Russian regions. [41 seconds]

At the same time, every year —

and often every month — I visit either

a clinic, a district hospital, or

a rural first-aid station, and the situation there

is very difficult. Vladimir Putin and I have, in a way, shared

these kinds of national impressions

on this subject. It just so happened that he was talking to people

in a small town, and I was in

others, naturally. And of course the overall

state of this primary care network

in a whole շարք of regions

is problematic.

depressing

Apparently, the idea was that we

would watch this and think, and say to each

other, “Well, look at Dimon (a nickname for Dmitry Medvedev) — he travels around the

regions, knows the country, sympathizes

with doctors.” It’s like this ordinary

conversation between ordinary people. You yourselves have said this a hundred

times and heard it a hundred times

— this exact phrase. He says there,

“You drive just 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Moscow — it’s a nightmare

what’s going on.”

Everyone always says that phrase because

it’s the pure truth. And he says,

“My God, what a horror, what things are like on the highway,”

“100 kilometers (62 miles) out — it’s a nightmare what’s going on.” And

it reminded me of a very recent

similar bit of commentary. There was a really super-mega

viral video where three pensioners are sitting there and

criticizing the authorities because the authorities do

everything badly, plainly — and they looked so sweet, so

natural, so convincing

and you really look at these three

pensioners and believe them: three old men on a bench

sitting there and telling the truth. Let’s

please take a look. 30 — not the nominal amount for

a bench in a commuter train — 37 seconds

the minimum amount is 11,000... 10... 83

million 200 thousand people

and on top of that employers, employers

quite often, unfortunately, break the law and

pay less... and how many millions of people

after those figures, and pay a little more

for this certificate, and look at the station, well

it really is like Vladimir Semyonovich is riding in a

commuter train, and people are saying to each other, “Did you hear, someone

heard? The government wants 5,000 rubles for a

certificate.” “Are you serious? 5,000 rubles — how is that even

possible? 5,000 to pay? People here have

salaries of 19,000 rubles, and some

and can you imagine, some have salaries of 7,000 rubles there

and for some maybe not 7,000 — there are 20

million people like that. And what about Fedyukovo there

985 thousand for a certificate... I’m not following... what madness

lawlessness

It’s just astonishing to watch all this, and

they’re plainly telling it — one thing is obvious:

this is also staged. They show these things on the news

so that, apparently, we

would look at it and say, “Ah, yes,”

“the government really is thinking about us, it remembers

that for an ordinary person, 5,000 rubles

for a certificate is a lot.” What’s striking is — I’ve got

a question here, I see: Viktor Medved...

“Alexei, why, against the backdrop of low ratings

and declining interest, don’t they cancel the live call-in shows

with Putin and the big press conferences

of Putin and Medvedev?”

Well, because apparently they are in all

seriousness convinced that this is great

— that these press conferences are great PR moves

You’re constantly surrounded by ultra-mega

bootlickers. In Putin’s case, and in

Medvedev’s too, but especially Putin’s — for 20 years

you’ve simply had people gathered around you

who don’t ask even any kind of

uncomfortable question. And coming back to it,

I just didn’t have time to include this video in the program

— Proekt, the publication Proekt,

published

a story about how the presidential

press pool works, and there’s an absolutely first-rate

story there. I didn’t have time to show the video; there’s

even a video where someone explains

— a person who worked for four years in this

presidential press pool. He says that

the main rule is: you must never

ask Putin an unsanctioned question — neither negative nor positive

you must not create any unsanctioned situation for Putin

never, under any circumstances. And he gives

as an example the time when, remember, Putin was driving across the

Crimean Bridge

some guys were sitting there, driving

a KamAZ truck, and an RBC correspondent got out of the truck

and said, “So, Vladimir Vladimirovich,

did you enjoy riding in the KamAZ?” And

Putin replied, “Super.” They published it,

and the correspondent was kicked out of the pool. Great

to be working as a journalist and get punished for asking

whether he enjoyed riding in a KamAZ truck.

Just imagine the degree of isolation from

the normal world, and the degree of their servility

in everything that’s happening around

them. He really likes it all; they surely

must have brought Medvedev the reports and said,

“You were incredible,”

“My God, Ivleeva (Russian TV host and blogger Nastya Ivleeva) was looking at you

with lovestruck eyes,”

“and Batrutdinov (Russian comedian Timur Batrutdinov) practically

looked ready to throw himself at you, and everyone adored you,”

“and you can’t imagine what was going on in the

chats, Dmitry Anatolyevich,”

“it was all hearts, hearts, and little airplanes

being posted constantly.” Apparently that means

those little airplanes were illustrating how your

approval rating would soar into the sky.

Well, maybe with Medvedev it’s harder to do that

— Medvedev knows how to use a

mobile phone and uses

the internet — but with Putin it most definitely

works. They like all of this; they

are convinced that it really is absolutely

great. Roman Zubakov asks me:

“Excellent investigation about Kosinsky

— by the way, how did you find out about the plaque

in Central Park in New York? Soon

Alburov will come here, and we’ll

ask him all these questions. But before

that, I wanted to say one important thing: there was

still one thing in Medvedev’s appearance that genuinely

outraged me — the part where he talked about

protests. Pay attention — now I’ll play you

1 minute 17 seconds.

The guy is basically admitting it. He says, “Well, these

protests arose as a kind of demand for

justice, but then there was blah blah...”

Basically: if you go to a protest, you shouldn’t be going to a protest

— but at the same time we understand that

you are driven by a desire to achieve justice.”

What drove it? Well, you went to the rally, and that's why—

—you were jailed.

At 1 minute 17 seconds, we can see that

the mood in society is changing, well, at

least in Moscow, there was a whole

wave of protest activity over the summer. It all started

with the Moscow City Duma elections. What do you think—

why did these sentiments in society

emerge at precisely this moment? And, well, if

that mood exists, then something must be creating it.

Obviously, there are probably some

shortcomings in the work of the law enforcement

system, and they need to be taken into account and, in some

way, something needs to be changed. But overall,

this triggered quite a powerful

demand for justice. In itself, that is

probably completely normal. The only question

is one thing: you and I understand perfectly well

that such problems cannot be solved on social media or in

the public square.

You can express your opinion—that is

absolutely normal—but expressing your

opinion still has to be done in the manner

provided for by the rules currently in force. And

no matter how much people say, well, that we

filed something or other and weren’t

allowed to do something—the law may

be to your liking or not, that's understandable,

but it still has to be obeyed. Otherwise we

could slide into very dangerous

situations that, in our country, could

turn into something really bad. That is,

you can feel that, basically, he is saying:

yes, well, this is normal, it's

normal, it really happens—people

felt injustice and started

fighting against injustice. But of course

they broke this rule. And he sits there

talking about it so calmly, as if the day

before that

they hadn’t demanded four years in prison for Yegor Zhukov over YouTube videos.

They demanded four years of

imprisonment.

Four years in prison. Initially,

they tried to accuse Zhukov of, well,

organizing some kind of unrest.

Then they realized they had simply, excuse me,

screwed up with that charge, when

they said: well, you know, in his

indictment it says the following:

"Zhukov experiences a feeling

of political hatred and hostility toward

the existing constitutional order in Russia,"

and "decided to involve an unlimited number

of persons in his extremist activities,"

which are "aimed at destabilizing

the socio-political situation in the Russian Federation."

Any normal person feels

political hatred and hostility toward

the existing system.

Any normal person. To some extent, I’m even

sure that Anastasia Ivleeva and Timur

Batrutdinov feel that

hatred and hostility too. Because, by the way,

I was just told that neither

one nor the other—I wanted to show you

some of their Instagram posts after

that meeting—but neither of them posted

anything, because they were ashamed. Their

TV companies made them go there.

Come on, they’re not idiots. Should they

post a picture on Instagram saying, "Oh, I asked

Medvedev a tough question"?

What would people say about them? But they don’t—

Ivleeva and Batrutdinov simply do not want

to take part in this. They know how people

feel about the current regime, and they

are actually jailing Zhukov. It’s just, well, I

don’t know—on a completely baseless

charge, they are trying to imprison him. I very

much hope that the hellish commotion

that the Higher School of Economics (HSE) stirred up around him—

in particular, that female candidate

from United Russia whom we

—thank you once again—managed to knock out of

the election—they feel some degree of

guilt

that their student is being imprisoned for nothing, and they

will probably, in the Kremlin, I very much hope,

manage this

to get him a suspended sentence. And, by the way,

I want to warn right away

those who will write:

"Oh, what a relief, a suspended sentence." No—

there is nothing good about a suspended sentence. In any

case, Zhukov will receive a verdict on the 10th.

Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. in Kuntsevo District Court,

so come support him. And

there, too, there will one hundred percent be an

guilty verdict—an unjust

guilty verdict. We hope it will be

a suspended one at least, though for an innocent

person even a suspended sentence is still a conviction. They really—well,

there will be a guilty verdict there, one

hundred percent, absolutely one hundred percent. And so,

well, Medvedev says, yes,

I repeat, sorry, people were demanding

justice. Now, taking into account

a certain demand for social

justice, these people who

were demanding social justice were brought to this point

because we are going to jail them. Another

person, Nikita Chertov, was yesterday requested

to receive three and a half years in prison.

Let’s watch the video—33 seconds—showing

what exactly the state is demanding a

three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for.

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That’s it. Nothing else happened. He pushed the riot police officer in the chest

in the crowd. In court, the OMON officer (Russian riot police) said

that he experienced discomfort because he was

pushed in the chest with palms, despite being such a big guy.

Pushed in the chest—three and a half years

in prison. The person is absolutely

completely innocent. Tomorrow is actually

the day of verdicts in the Moscow case.

Zhukov’s starts at 10:00 a.m. in Kuntsevo.

in court. After that, at 11 o’clock, there will be a verdict for you

at the Tverskoy Court, and then also at the

Meshchansky Court there will be a verdict. Go to the

Mediazona website if you want to support someone

— choose whom to support and

come to this court hearing so that, well,

so that at least these people

feel that we are expressing

solidarity with them. We are certainly expressing

our solidarity with them. Right, I’m reading questions.

Medvedev says—Naric Vader writes to me

—Vadersky, Vader-something—about how one must

speak out without breaking the law. If that’s the case,

then, I confess, the article about freedom of speech can go to Jesus

because it no longer applies at all.

Exactly right. What does it mean to speak out without

breaking the law, if you nasty United Russia members

keep constantly changing that law? You’re just

constantly hemming us in.

A “foreign agent” here, a “foreign

agent” there—everyone who receives money

for example from YouTube monetization, they’re

foreign agents. A question from Vlevo Segodnya ("Left Today"):

what was Dmitry Anatolyevich thinking—won’t you

reopen YouTube for us? For me,

income from YouTube matters.

Dmitry Anatolyevich, the leader of the ruling

United Russia party, should be explaining

that, you know, Anastasia, maybe we won’t

switch it off, but really you’re only one step away

from being declared a foreign agent, because

you receive money from an American

company, on servers in California

terrible things are happening, and videos with

your jokes are stored there, so you are potentially

a foreign agent. And they themselves

keep piling on with new

rules, inventing new bans,

and then they say: but please, here, your

space is narrowing, narrowing, but

if you want to speak out, we’re all

for it—just please, right here, right there,

stand in the pen, put a

muzzle on yourself, and then speak, because

in the law that we, United Russia,

passed,

it says that freedom of speech exists, but

only, well,

only with a muzzle on. The law is the law, the law

is harsh, as the Romans used to say:

*dura lex, sed lex*—but it is the law. And these very people

who declare us foreign

agents and tell stories about some

monstrous West—they themselves live there, they themselves

move there. In that sense, with the exception of

the story about the plane, or

and Medvedev, the third biggest story

that happened this week is,

of course, my old acquaintance, one of the

leaders of the Nashi movement (a pro-Kremlin youth movement), which was

created to support Vladimir Putin—

Robert Shlegel. I’ve known him since those

ancient times, from way back when.

A long time ago I even organized a debate between

that Shlegel and the writer Dmitry

Bykov. In fact, I’ll show you a small

clip of a video where I’m interviewing him

and so on, from those ancient days, uploaded to YouTube

some hundred thousand years ago.

You asked how the debate I

organized went—let’s take just two seconds.

So, the Kremlin-backed Nashi movement, about

the Kremlin-backed Nashi movement, to think about

debates—well, that was worth mentioning.

The anti-fascist Nashi movement—but in any case we

congratulate you on your recent

birthday.

Here’s the person off camera supplying

us with birthday kompromat (compromising material); he

published it about himself—it was me. So, the movement

Nashi—really, now only its

fragments remain. Those people who were

leaders of the Nashi movement have turned into

some kind of nomenklatura whales—crooks and

thieves. Some are PR people, some are

ministers, some have become something else, but

all of them, of course, like traditional

officials, make money here, steal here,

here, while they themselves, of course, mostly

try to leave for the West. And Shlegel

outdid them all. This man

was the initiator of some of the most hellish

bills. He introduced a bill under which

the media themselves were supposed to pay some

absolutely фантастические fines for

defamation. Then he introduced

a bill restricting the screening in

Russia of foreign films. Foreign

films are terrible, they undermine the country’s “spiritual bonds” (a common conservative Russian phrase).

And his most famous bill

restricted freedom of speech on the

internet. He demanded that the TV channel

Dozhd (TV Rain) be shut down. And what did he do now? This

wonderful man emigrated to

Germany. It turned out that he became

a German citizen. And the wording

is simply delightful. As for Shlegel—

why is he hated by the progressive

public? Any normal

person would know: he pushed through that very

Dima Yakovlev Law (the Russian law banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children), under which

it was said that foreigners—Americans in

particular—

do not have the right to adopt a Russian

orphan. You know, this is a huge

problem in Russia: we have a great many

abandoned children. They live in orphanages,

especially sick children—no one wants

to adopt them in Russia, unfortunately.

They live in horrific conditions, they

die very young, and life is simply

an endless nightmare. Foreigners used to come here

to adopt them. In America there simply aren’t

large numbers of orphanages of that kind,

there’s no one there to adopt, so they

travel and adopt abroad, in poorer

countries, and Russia is one of them.

They adopted these children.

they were taken away and given

a normal life, and people like Schlegel

and Schlegel specifically said: no, you can't

take our children there, you'll take them away and

give them proper medicine? No, let them

stay in orphanages — that's better than if they

go to America. And they stayed there, and there

they were even separated; the process of establishing

parenthood took quite a long time, and they separated those in

families that had already been formed

who were there formalizing, processing their

parental status, and during that process they were told

during the paperwork: that's it, goodbye,

leave, go back to the United States

this little child wants to stay in the

orphanage — that's what a United Russia member said

Schlegel, that hypocrite, with the line: I

want my children, who are from Russia, to grow up in

Germany. He leaves Russia, obtains

German citizenship, gets a job at a

German company

and says that he has, you know, my

overall attitude — that's what a man tells us

who headed Nashi (a pro-Kremlin youth movement) and was

the youngest State Duma deputy

he said, well, my attitude has

shifted, shifted into the realm of

apoliticism — I no longer want

to be involved in politics

I'm living here in Germany now, and I'm just

doing great. What staggering swinishness

The man lived and made money by

harming us, by making life in Russia worse

explaining it by saying he was standing up to

the West. To you, dear Petya, Manya, or Kolya from

Moscow or Vladivostok, Schlegel was saying

that this and that — and, Kolya, you're not entitled

to a free internet, because people over in

Germany will tell terrible things. He

pushed for that, he got it done, laws were passed

and then after that he said something like, I

did some crap, and it turned out I also have

children, and my children also want to live in a

normal country, so please, I'll move to

Germany, and let Petya, Manya, and Kolya stay

here

where young people just like me are growing up

who spout the same nonsense as the one you'll

hear now at the 47-second mark

He says that we have a future, which

means that we will be able to see

financial

[applause]

we'll win everything, we have Putin's plan, and

young people have a future

said Robert Schlegel. For a while

he hung around and collected a huge salary at

our expense, then said, well, what can you do,

there is no future, and left for Germany, saying

that he had shifted into apoliticism. All of them

will leave for there. There are two options

either this Putinist filth

falls apart and those in power

scatter like rats and settle down just fine

in Germany, where everything will be

good for them

or the second option: they scatter like

rats, but everything goes badly for them because

we will force their extradition and

put them all in prison here, because they stole

our money. There is no other option. The fact that

the entire Putin gang will scatter and

try to flee abroad is 100

percent certain — 146 percent (a sarcastic reference to implausibly inflated Russian election results). And the situation with

Medvedeva, Kostyonin, or whoever else

demonstrates this perfectly. Before

moving on to that topic, I want to say

and remind you that our campaign is still going on

the "I Stand For" T-shirt campaign. You know

that the criminal case against us hasn't

gone anywhere; it's still moving forward, and we're still

dealing with all of it. Nothing has been returned to us, and

things are being taken away from us; it's hard for us to keep going. We were

supported by all kinds of people, famous

and unknown — simply everyone who

donated to us

and continues to support us. That's wonderful. I'm very

proud to show you that a video in our

support was recorded by one of the most

well-known economists in the world, and certainly

the best-known and best Russian

economist, Sergei Guriev. In a long

interview — you probably saw it recently — with

Yury Dud (a prominent Russian interviewer), there was one minute where

Sergei Guriev spoke about the case involving

FBK

My name is Sergei Guriev. I am a citizen

of Russia, and only Russia. As an economist, I

know very well that in today's Russia there is

nothing more important than the fight against corruption

That is precisely why I regularly supported

FBK

from the very moment the foundation was established in 2012

I am completely satisfied with how

they spent my donations

I transferred to FBK my honestly

earned money, on which I paid

all taxes due. The tax authorities

of Russia, like the tax authorities

of other countries, have never had any

claims against me. That is why I am

outraged that my money was

seized and declared criminal proceeds

and I demand that my money be

returned to those to whom

it was voluntarily donated. I closely

follow all FBK investigations

and in every one of them there is plenty of work to do

for investigators from the Investigative Committee and

the prosecutor's office

Instead of fighting those who

fight corruption

start fighting corruption. Hands off

FBK

Many thanks to Sergei Guriev. And who do we have

here with us — Georgy Dobry? We have 49

thousand people watching live. Please tell

us, please, if Beautiful Russia of the Future

which is why, of course, we are effectively requisitioning planes for

or for Svetlana Medvedeva

to claim what language, really

the better plane is, of course, one or

because it is ten years newer, and it is

$10 million more expensive because

because now it is slightly bigger, and of course it is strange

quite enough, because the wife of the prime

minister, as she probably learned from

our investigation, does not fly quite as much on

not such an especially good plane, but

some kind of, or an Oscar for D from the TV channel

Russia, to fly on a plane that

is much more—my hands, by the way, speaking of

seriously, no joke, I am sure that one of the

reasons why VTB tried so desperately

to block our investigation everywhere was not

to scrub all the business media, because, well,

but in reality, exactly to bring it down—why, well, I do not know

a girlfriend's plane

really, probably there too, Medvedev has

a Bombardier Global 5000, while this one is a 6000, a Bombardier Global

6000, and the Bombardier Global is $10 million

more expensive. Come on, let us run an experiment

imagine that this is

Svetlana Medvedeva. You come to your

press conference, she stands there like this

and says: Dmitry, why does this

then some unprintable language follows

plane is better than mine? What is going on there with you?

What is happening in the government? You appointed Kostin

why does every damn

[unprintable], [unprintable], plane cost more than

mine? What do you answer? I would say: Sveta,

would you like to fly to the Emirates?

perhaps. And amazingly, today she

flew there, or perhaps that is not quite

right, excuse me, and there she is vacationing lavishly

but Medvedev's plane flew off, yes, it

left today. Do you think she flew there?

well, either she did or the son did, most likely, of course

well, the weather outside is such that, all in all,

the city

is better now

we are doing a giveaway—what did you want?

to receive, a bandana or a T-shirt? What

size T-shirt? Probably a bandana. Zakhar,

what size?

Yurgis wanted to fight for the bandana. I

remind you that you can send

donations to us—the link is below, from the stands

and indicate which city

she will fly to next time, or which next

city she will arrive in next time

Svetlana Medvedeva

from the options of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the Arab

Emirates—the United Arab Emirates, but

because the plane arrived there today

already left, and it seems to me that it

dropped someone off there and then, on the way back, will pick someone up there

it вполне may pick someone up if someone is in

the United Arab Emirates. Where exactly, I do not

know; I will figure it out. If you are in the United Arab Emirates

then please look on the beach—it is quite

likely that you will see

Svetlana Medvedeva, or a woman in a

headscarf who will be looking for a place

to pray. At this point, Fleur, you are

really just roasting her now

Svetlana Medvedeva

in a completely astonishing way, this

all goes together—she practically never leaves

church

she really is this astonishing

combination: the fact that she

takes a jet stolen from VTB, stolen

from the entire Russian people, takes it

gets on it and goes somewhere to the other

end of the world to pray, while she is

photographed by some visitors

to monasteries, as she walks in a headscarf, and beside her

Ilya Medvedev is also walking, without a headscarf

he takes some candles from her and lights those

candles, and all of this is supposedly not public, but

nevertheless they do it while flying on

a private jet that was stolen from all of

us, and they fly around trying to atone for these sins

it is astonishing, though on the other hand

what are good Christians supposed to do if

their husband and father steals billions, but

they probably at least do not want this

to go uncompensated, so they try to atone for sins

first of all, one must

pray in Jerusalem. How do you get there?

Obviously, you fly there by plane; the luggage goes too

of course. Roman Zubakov asks

excellent, praise first, excellent

investigation, yes—but where did

you learn about the plaque in Central Park

in New York? Excellent question. Actually, I

will tell the truth in my defense, well

the thing is, that plaque was

put up for public display; it was put up so that

people would look at it, so people would know about it

earlier, because now many people there already

write that Venediktov somehow had a hand in it in

April, so he also, well, somewhere

spotted that plaque too, apparently. Everyone had their eyes

on it, but some tourists posted it

and we noticed it too, because, well, we

monitor unusual things like that

connected with New York and with Russian

officials; from time to time this comes into our

field of view, and among other things it came to

our attention—that plaque did. But we did not

fly there specifically to check

whether the plaque was there or not in

New York, so it sat with us for quite

a long time, and it just so happened that in May I

was on vacation. Naturally, I said

let us go, let us rush there while on vacation, to

the area

somewhere very far away—we arrived, and for that video

it was inconvenient, of course, and not by private jet

Central Park is huge, and there are benches there

literally by the thousands—more than 10,000 there, I

think around 15,000 of those benches—and I

remember very well, in Georgia flew you

They said, "Okay, please, Rosstat" (Russia’s federal statistics agency).

Find this bench. So I went out and got started.

From the subway to Central Park—then what?

Something like that, right in the middle of the park at that time.

I looked at the benches, checked one bench after another, and kept walking.

No, not that one—the bench—and I kept going.

Naturally, I had to look for some kind of staff member.

Someone from Central Park, so they could tell me that this one

bench was located exactly there, in the center, and

Who counts as Central Park staff? The police?

The ones walking around, or who is it exactly?

I spent a lot of effort—Hotel Park Conti.

Some official establishment connected with the park.

I poked around here and there, and there was nobody, but in the end

I found some kind of semi-official place.

The place was called something like Chess & Checkers.

There were some old guys there playing

chess, playing checkers with each other, and I

went up to the first person there in the middle of the park.

I said, "Hi, here’s a photo."

"It’s a plaque—just tell us how to find it."

But they were surprised. I had basically gone up to

just some random person who

had no idea—"from Russia, I’m looking for a photo from here."

It used to be right here.

The bench—Georgy’s English was rated at

Wikipedia.

But I wasn’t just asking anyone—there was a guy there

the person who hands out to the old men

the chess and checkers sets, who knows the layout

of Central Park.

So I went up again and said,

"Hi, there’s also this plaque—"

"Could you tell me how to find it?"

They were surprised and said, "We need some time."

"Let us ask around here, and in the meantime you can play checkers."

So we sat there and played checkers for an hour.

In the end, after an hour, a member of the

Central Park staff came over and said, "Hi, so, we

looked into it—it’s located in this area."

"That’s the most expensive area. Strange that this

plaque is there, because all the

super-expensive ones are there. The most expensive means

a plaque costs around 25—yes, yes, closer to

$25,000." I said, "Well,

great, that’s exactly the most expensive plaque we need."

They roughly drew a circle for us on a map

showing where it might be, and so we

went off to look for the plaque. We searched

and searched, and eventually found it. In fact, we

literally spent the entire daylight hours

trying to find that miserable plaque.

And by the way, you still owe us a vacation day.

You owe us a day off, time off.

Let’s vote on whether to give Georgy a day

off for this investigation.

It really did turn out to be very successful.

You’ll get your day off, Georgy, although in

your story there’s neither the FSB (Russia’s security service) nor the CIA,

just some people playing checkers. That’s really not the

level of detective work we were expecting from you.

But the part of the investigation where we’re looking for

the yacht—it really does seem like it, it looks

great. Let’s watch it at 1 minute 36 seconds.

Every airplane, private or not,

sends out a radio signal with its position.

Ships do the same, including

yachts.

Their coordinates at any given moment

can be found fairly easily. Besides that,

we have our madam’s Instagram, with hundreds of

photos and stories about vacations, and

so we have three sets of absolutely

public information from open

sources.

Instagram, the movements of her plane around

the world, and radar data on all

the yachts in existence worldwide. In other words,

theoretically, we can simply overlay

all of that and figure out which

yachts went out to sea in the cities

where the plane flew. It sounds

simple, but in practice, for example, in

the area around Nice, where her

plane was from July 30 to August 4, there were

5,234 boats that went out to sea. Among them

was definitely her yacht—but 5,000 is too many.

Among five thousand, we’re not going to find the right yacht.

So why not look instead

at other cities where our plane was?

We found which of those five thousand yachts

went out to sea in Albi, Italy, from the 14th

to the 17th of August, and our sample shrank

to 256.

Then we add Genoa, from August 30 to 31,

and the number of yachts drops to just 34.

And then we look at Cyprus, where

the plane was from June 30 to July 5, and the number of yachts

that were in those four places on

the right dates leaves us with exactly one.

Meet **Sea and Us**.

Sea and Us—you won’t believe how many times

while we were recording the video I tried

to pronounce the name correctly. 53,000

people are watching live, and I

want to remind you that we’re collecting

donations all these days and raffling off these

T-shirts and a bandana.

You can find the raffle rules in

the description below the video.

Please explain: how exactly do they

kind of give themselves away like that? And if we assume

that this is no longer Svetlana Medvedeva

and she doesn’t come aboard—let’s say she travels on it—

then why are traces of these flights visible everywhere?

Why don’t they just switch it off?

Because Eurocontrol requirements

and, more broadly, European and global

transport agencies include the rule

that you have to keep

this beacon on at all times, because

if some kind of insured incident happens

and it turns out that it was

switched off, then you can lose your insurance.

So of course they all have to use it.

You might say, "My God, they’ve got the whole

VTB Bank at their disposal" (a major Russian bank), but the question is: can they

just go ahead and switch off the transponder?

All right, we decided—they decided, according to them, over there in...

Monaco—to have some fun and throw a party

where someone jumps out of a champagne glass.

They brought in Timur Batrutdinov and knocked out a newcomer.

And then we won’t see them—of course, then we

won’t see them, but then they’ll also have

problems, because they are obliged to

be constantly careful—and if you look at this madness,

if you look at Instagram, it’s hard to tell

what exactly is going on. That’s where she deserves credit.

Of course, now she flaunts the fact that she

flies around, travels—she acts so open,

good for her, doing everything “right.” But before

the publication of our investigation, she

was absolutely proper in how skillfully and

effectively she hid

information about the yacht and the plane.

If you look at the yacht photos that

are posted on Instagram, we

find that in fact there are only two or three

tiny fragments of the yacht visible at any time.

On Instagram there’s no yacht name,

and no large section of the yacht

appears in the photos. She hid all of that, and

it was very difficult for us to establish what

yacht it actually was. You see, it really wasn’t

easy at all, even before the interview.

With Naryshkin, Brook would...

Sergei, what’s the weather like for the song...

And her latest promo for the interview with

Sobyanin was absolutely, absolutely

masterful. Let’s watch a few

seconds of how our wonderful Nailya

will be interviewing Sobyanin. What kind of

satanic Moscow is this, and how is it different from

Luzhkov’s Moscow? We’ll find out from the capital’s mayor, Sergei

Semyonovich. Hello, Nailya—or hi.

The key figures: Nailya and Asker-zade.

Sunday after midnight on the channel

Rossiya (Russia TV channel).

One of the most inexplicable things about her

is that she’s a super-rich TV host, she has a TEFI award (a major Russian television prize), I mean

it’s obvious that someone bought it for her here,

TEFI.

And she is officially the main interviewer

for the Rossiya 1 channel.

She has a TEFI, she’s an award winner, and her

program airs at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday—yes,

or rather, you could say Monday

or Saturday night depending on how you count it. In any case, it’s the

worst possible time. It seems to me that at such an hour

even if your show were broadcast on

Rossiya 1.

It’s just a dead slot, Alexei, because

for some reason I keep wondering

why this supposedly top interviewer

is always scheduled at this hour. It’s simply

because nobody watches her. But Rossiya 1 apparently

has some kind of

obligation to keep her on the air, so they

thought it over, shifted things around—I don’t know,

the horoscopes,

the home shopping block—somewhere in between.

Wait, can’t you just pay

to have it moved in the schedule and put it on at

7 p.m.? No, you can’t. Well, no—that would be too

great a loss for the TV channel, and a loss

for them too, because they would

lose regular viewers who at that

time might discover some cool shows on

other channels—like Vladimir Solovyov’s stuff.

Great programming, really. Let me show you

something.

A note she wrote several years

ago, in 2011.

Nailya, let’s look at the headline.

Enter: Noel Asker-zade, Navalny...

dot, stormy, VTB—I wrote about this on my

Telegram channel. I mean, I know her,

and really, Nailya Asker-zade—

whom I used to call Nailya—why did she

suddenly become Naila, and why did I have to retrain myself

along with everyone else? Everyone had to relearn it.

Even my Tatar friends wrote to me

asking, “Why are you saying Nailya? You should

say Naila.” It turned out that it all started

because Nailya Asker-zade herself

decided to call herself Naila Asker-zade, and

we somehow also decided to call her that

because that’s what she called herself. We

twisted ourselves into knots over it, I mean,

it took monstrous effort from me—we, we, we

did a million retakes: of course, Naila...

Asker-zade, watch the broadcast, Naila...

We really did try, deliberately.

Eighty percent of the takes were ruined because

it kept coming out as Nailya. But in the end we decided

to settle on one version or the other. Yes, I know how

to say it correctly—correctly, it should be Naila, they

say Nailya York, Naila Asker-zade, Naila...

because she wants to be called Naila Asker...

or—well, okay—Naila Asker-zade. In short,

it was complicated. We sorted it out, although it was

not easy. The yacht—the yacht was genuinely very

hard to find. The thing is, it was beautifully

well, I actually saw it live from the pier—great

I saw it. I crawled in—not through, not

from above, but through the fence, somehow moved

the fence aside, squeezed through, and from the back it was covered in scaffolding, so

it was hard to make out. We still hadn’t

looked from...

How did I know it was in Barcelona? Excellent question.

I knew it was in Barcelona because it

constantly sends out signals about

its location, just like the plane does—like

aircraft do. And on her Instagram, too,

she was constantly signaling to us that she was

somewhere in Nice, Monaco, Tanzania—but

she also showed at least a little bit of caution, Asker-

zade.

She was always shifting the timing on her

Instagram: she would go somewhere,

wait a couple of days,

or even a week, and only then post it.

So it was fairly difficult to compare her

trips with the plane’s flights—for example,

the trip to Tanzania. But it turned out that

the business jet flies from Moscow to Tanzania.

They fly around a bit every day, and

even so, Asker held it back and posted it

four weeks later—a photo from Tanzania—and

we, like idiots, went through all of it,

all those not-very-cunning little tricks,

a sneaky move, but still, we took

for sure—two clues, she told me, how do you put it,

my little devil, always resourceful,

as they say.

We took large datasets; we basically

took a large dataset on the plane’s flight

and looked at which coastal

cities it flew to, and we understood that

there was a yacht—she kept posting some kind of

similar little snippets on

Instagram and VKontakte (a Russian social network), but

it was impossible for anyone to identify it from those, so we

took all the coastal places the plane had flown to,

selected the four most likely

cities: Nice, Genoa, Olbia—that’s

Italy—and Cyprus, and looked at

when the plane was there. We simply took plus

or minus two to three days from each date,

got data on all the vessels that were there,

and it came to some millions of records,

including about 5,000 yachts, and then we started

cross-checking all that data, and it turned out

that only one yacht

had been in all four places. We

looked at photos online and compared them

with the photos we had, and it turned out that

it was the real thing. We went there, filmed it, and

well, and you can see it’s sending out

a little signal that the yacht is in Barcelona.

Barcelona is big—there are probably lots of

marinas there, or for a yacht of that size, I

suppose only a few.

Well yes, of course—it’s docked in the main,

the very main port of Barcelona right now.

Let’s move on.

Right now, I think it has arrived in Spain,

it just also—well, it returned to

Spain—no, not Spain, to

Italy, to

well, anyway, somewhere in Italy now. You can

find online without any problem where it

is docked right now just by searching for sean dos

position.

All of that can be found, and it ended up

in Barcelona. In Barcelona, of course, finding it was

not that difficult. We could say that

finding it in Boston would be very hard—we’d have

to walk all over Barcelona—but no, harder

than reading a sign, harder than a nameplate

among thousands of berths in Barcelona.

But this yacht broadcasts fairly precise

data about its location, down to

within so many meters. You just come over and

see the yacht. Filming it was fairly

risky there in Barcelona,

but we managed it. We filmed who those

people were who were doing yoga on

it—but that was some of the yacht’s crew. There are only

15 crew members on the yacht, and some of

them were there permanently—they live there, by the way.

So, Kostin and—or Kostya—

they’re paying, and so are the viewers

of this program and other citizens

of the Russian Federation.

We are paying to maintain a sixty-two-meter

(203-foot) yacht and a permanent staff of 15

people. They live there on what amounts to a permanent business trip.

An interesting arrangement: people get paid,

as if they were sent there on assignment.

That’s at least €34,000 a month, which is higher than

the average salary in Russia—well, yes.

So 10 to 15 of them, at minimum, live there

permanently, and we are constantly paying for it.

Of course, I even read about their yoga mats

on this yacht. I also read that

maintaining a yacht like this costs about

€3 million a year, all told.

That sounds about right, though I have no personal experience

with maintaining a 62-meter yacht.

In the Beautiful Russia of the Future (an anti-corruption political slogan), but

this is an ужасно inefficient way to spend money on

these jets, these planes—just an enormous

sink for huge amounts of money, of course, all taken from you.

There is, admittedly, a certain romanticism in this person.

It’s a terribly inefficient way to spend money, though.

How much would you value Georgy’s love in

terms of a plaque in Central Park? Well, you

don’t calculate expenses when it comes to your beloved girl,

you give her a yacht paid for by a state

bank—you’re not paying for anything yourself, so why count?

You don’t count how many hundreds of thousands of liters

of fuel you’ll need to go somewhere,

you don’t count anything, you don’t think about any of it,

you just make a grand gesture

and throw a yacht at your beloved’s feet.

And let these people pay for it—there they are,

running around there, earning their 22

thousand rubles a month, of course.

But if a person counted money even a little,

he would never

do something like that—obviously not. But these

aren’t his money, so he can do

absolutely anything. And where you were filming,

was that the biggest one you filmed?

Was it the biggest yacht? No, it wasn’t the

biggest, but it was one of the more

impressive ones. It was in that range where

for a superyacht, of course, by

its specifications, it definitely is a superyacht.

I thought a superyacht meant something over 100

meters, but apparently the threshold starts lower,

more like 50. Since we’ve talked so much,

let’s watch the video once more

that Georgy filmed in Barcelona, how

he got in there, slipping past a little fence down to the dock,

sliding through, sneaking past the fence and everything.

In front of us is the 62-meter (203-foot) yacht si en

dos. Look at it—how beautiful it is.

Even despite the fact that it’s surrounded by scaffolding,

don’t worry, it won’t get in our way. We

arm ourselves with a few photographs of the

yacht and begin the search.

To begin with, we find the helipad.

Right there on the yacht—very classy. Let's begin.

With this photo—you'll agree,

it was taken here. We can see the same

railings and some kind of metal post, and

right here nearby.

This photo of Nailya will come in handy.

She's sitting on a low railing, and you can see some kind of

round porthole near her feet.

That's the spot. We keep looking, moving on to

the helipad, and so far we haven't found anything,

except for girls doing

yoga on the upper deck. I see a dog

doing downward dog. We don't know who it is—sorry for the disturbance.

We'd really like to find

the staircase from this photo. It has

a turn in it, and glass is visible on both sides.

We're looking for the staircase, checking—this isn't it.

It doesn't look like it at all. Likewise, judging by

the blank wall—there's nothing there, just some kind of entrance

showing up. This definitely isn't our staircase.

So where is it? Wait—there it is.

Look, that's our staircase. Hooray, we found it!

There is no doubt left. All that's left

is to say that a yacht like this costs $62

million, or 4 billion

rubles.

We're being watched live by 56,000

people, and several dozen have already

taken part in the contest to guess

where Nailya and Svetlana will fly next.

The Medvedeva battle. Do you remember the game *Mortal*

*Kombat*? Of course I do. This is Nailya Asker-

zade, this is Svetlana Medvedeva, and this is

a battle of corrupt officials' women. Which one

has what superpowers? Who would you bet

on? Well, Nailya obviously has

that, while Svetlana has

her own strengths.

Well, she's cunning in the way she handles

Instagram—she's clever.

She holds back, you see. She understands that people are watching her,

and Svetlana Medvedeva—on her

side, I think, she has a bit more mana.

But this is probably a different kind of player. Who is

more competent? But here,

to be fair, one hides the money and

property their husbands and

boyfriends stole.

Who operates more skillfully?

More skillfully, surprisingly enough, Svetlana. By the way,

here in this video she's the former first lady and the wife

of the prime minister. You'd think she'd have at least some kind of

public life, but

nevertheless, all her public appearances

in public, officially, are at most once

a year—more typically once every

two years—and she doesn't show up anywhere at all.

So of course it's harder to expose her.

Her stealth skill is much higher.

Still, she's a well-known

person, and we showed photos there

that, supposedly, were taken by a Cypriot taxi driver.

By the way, saying, "I found it, I googled it across all

social networks"—

the people sitting here use

the internet. No need to tell fairy tales.

Either someone sent it to you,

or Sechin (Igor Sechin, a powerful Russian state oil executive) from the FSB (Russia's Federal Security Service) is your patron, because

if I start googling right now

"photo of Svetlana Medvedeva with her son

taken by a taxi driver," I'll be flooded with junk—that is, I

won't find anything. I searched on Instagram.

I mean, I went onto Instagram, entered

the hashtag for Svetlana Medvedeva, something with her name,

her patronymic, and

put it in. There weren't that many photos there—

only 800,000. You can look through them yourself.

I think you looked through photos

of Nastya Rybka when they were conducting

their investigation. You understand that you can

look through thousands of photos on Instagram

and

nothing terrible will happen. So it's all

because you lost a day of vacation. Do you realize you just lost your day

of

vacation?

All right then: some woman gets off a plane,

and around her we see

a large number of security guards running around.

That means any curious onlookers

would start taking pictures of her. So where are those

photos? How does she hide them all?

You can't hide that.

Apparently you've never flown on a

private jet. I haven't either,

but I've spent quite a lot of time tracking private

planes, including Svetlana Medvedeva's

plane.

It lands over there and goes to

some farthest parking area at

Vnukovo, where a car picks her up,

and she drives away with flashing lights

and some people escorting her, and

that's impossible to catch. Fine, in Vnukovo maybe—but

she flew to Jerusalem or to Cyprus,

well, the same thing happens there too: a car comes,

she leaves, and that's it. No one

sees anything. Of course no one can photograph it.

Naturally. Not just photograph it—

they'd simply cut it out. Having found these people, she is

super-important, of course. Catching her takes a

special skill.

And of course Nailya's skill is demonstrativeness—

obviously. I mean, she

shows off her trips; she isn't

embarrassed by it, unlike Medvedeva.

So, let's put it this way: to track

Svetlana Medvedeva's movements, we

had to work much harder than

we did to track the movements

of Askerzade. That's something that, of course,

is astonishing, no doubt. But a state

TV host, a state banker—and yet

they're not presidents or any official

figures. There's money there, but not that much. Do you

really think they

just don't care? I mean, what do

they think? What are they all sitting there thinking?

Right now, at home, watching this program, they’re probably...

talking among themselves, like, “There are these two...”

clowns on YouTube trashing us.”

And in their defense, what can they even say?

Obviously, they’re not saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, yes...”

...let’s call things by their proper names...”

...I’m a thief.”

And what could Svetlana Medvedeva say?

Well, wait, listen, Medvedeva there...

...she’s sitting there for now...

...with Ilya and Kostin. He’s a rich man...

...he bought me something, so what...

...was I supposed to refuse? And of course...

...you’ve got to post it on Instagram so that...

...they all die of envy. Of course you do.

You’ve got to show it all off; you can’t hide it.

That I’m sailing on a yacht—well, fine, I...

I’m Andrei Kostin, and I say, “Ellochka...

my dear...”

“But how are we going to explain, damn it, 62...

million? Somehow 60 million for a plane...

120 million dollars—how can we...

explain where you secretly got...

that kind of money?” And what does she answer? “I don’t...

know, don’t worry about it.

Everything will be just fine. I won’t...

post any photos that might...

expose us.” Well, that turned out great.

All right, and Svetlana Medvedeva—how do you think...

...she explains the need...

...to fly everywhere on a private jet?

“Security”? “I’m too important”?

Or “I believe in God too much”? But anyway...

...she and her husband worked so hard...

...worked so much, stole so much...

...how could I possibly live without it now?” She herself may not have...

stolen anything directly, but she uses it all, she travels...

She probably just pretends she doesn’t know...

where the plane came from. She goes around to ten...

residences registered to foundations...

all year round, constantly—and she doesn’t...

understand what’s going on? Of course she does.

She literally...

flies on a stolen plane...

lives in a stolen house, and well, how does she...

talk about it with her son Ilya?

The young man is generally...

...affected by all these investigations too; it’s hard for him as well.

Though somehow he’s hanging on—for now.

Let’s look at the 36-minute mark, at how...

we found Medvedeva’s plane, and then...

Georgy will tell us why this...

was, after all, harder than...

with Medvedeva, who is absolutely not a public...

and extremely well-protected person. Even so...

we managed to find a decent number...

of references to private visits, both in Russia...

and abroad, and all of them line up with...

the movements of a private jet.

VTB, Kemerovo: news reports that because of the arrival...

of Medvedev(a), half the city was shut down. Israel...

April 2016: Svetlana Medvedeva makes a...

pilgrimage.

And here the plane lands—we initially have no idea...

where. It’s a military...

air base in the Kulebaki urban district...

near the border of the Vladimir and...

Nizhny Novgorod regions. What would our Svetlana...

be doing there? But she’s going to Murom...

which is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away...

and there she celebrates the Day of Family, Love, and...

Fidelity (a Russian holiday promoting family values).

Next, a visit to St. Petersburg to visit...

the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral.

Then Ivanovo, and a visit to the opening of a summer...

festival in Plyos.

June 2017: the plane flies to Cyprus...

and we find a photo of Svetlana...

Medvedeva in Cyprus on that very day...

posted by a local guide/taxi driver.

Then Murom again, for the next...

Festival of Family, Love, and Fidelity, and then in...

March of this year...

Jerusalem, where she venerated holy sites...

at exactly the same time the plane was there.

And then in the summer, St. Petersburg...

Kronstadt again. This time...

Even some Greek aviation enthusiasts from...

the island of Kos, who track flights to...

their island, discovered that in the summer...

of 2012, on this very plane...

Svetlana Medvedeva and...

Ilya Medvedev flew in to see them.

At the time, he was Dmitry Medvedev’s 17-year-old son...

and they wrote exactly that on their website...

in plain language.

A user sends us a funny comment:

“Navalny Live with guests looks...

more interesting and dynamic...”

but the studio feels cramped.” All right...

Nawalny, tell us...

please, about all these photos. But I think...

that, by the way, all these...

photos have still been preserved, so everyone...

can look at them. Well, the Cypriot taxi driver...

who had the photo with Medvedeva deleted...

the photos from the internet. Is he still alive?

Polina starts: “Wouldn’t it be great...

if there were, for example, some way...

to take some photos from the...

internet and save them? That would be...

great—to make use of such a...

possibility, we definitely would.”

But I think of course you do have that; I don’t even...

know why I didn’t think of it right away.

Yes, yes...

Still, tell us please...

why it was harder to track Medvedeva than...

someone like Mask (likely meaning a more public figure).

Because Medvedeva doesn’t put herself out there anywhere.

Because she doesn’t post on Instagram where...

she’s gone, and she keeps everything closed off...

So you have to find some mention of it too...

maybe in some Saratov newspaper...

and that’s pretty hard to find. It’s not like...

some Instagram account where everything is right there...

and easy to dig up. So yes, she’s definitely better at hiding it...

Svetlana Medvedeva is definitely more careful than...

Asker, yes, because he writes.

Because they don't post on Instagram, and...

...and leads a much more God-fearing way...

...of life — that's what you think. But now, after all this...

...after this investigation came out, will they...

...use the yacht less? Well...

Of course not. I mean, if you have yachts, are you...

...not going to use them? Of course you are.

They'll keep using them. At first, everyone will just endlessly...

...be tracking them from every possible angle...

...looking for the plane, and every time...

...they go somewhere, everyone will be on Twitter...

...and in Telegram channels condemning it: there she goes again...

...off somewhere. But nothing serious will happen.

They'll keep using it; they won't give it up.

Shuvalov didn't give it up — he still uses it, still flies.

They'll just put up with the criticism...

...and sail away on their yachts. Thank you very much...

...Georgy, for telling us how it all...

...was.

All right, I also have one more funny thing...

...some backstage footage, a video of how...

...the recording actually happens. Everyone thinks...

...we have some kind of super-professional...

...studio...

...and a huge number of assistants.

Last time, what did it look like, who...

...was improving the studio in Moscow so that I...

...wouldn't have to record with the beauty...

...of the night city in the background?

What do the staff do? How are the videos actually...

...made? Investigating the Christmas tree?

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Liqueur.

We need to pick some for Lucy.

Alexander came over and knows a good...

...viewing. We found out that on the plane was the wife...

...of Medvedev, because this...

...was an aviation spotter from Ufa Airport...

...who photographs planes there, and they know who...

...is arriving. And this Finnish Armada — excellent.

All right, thanks a lot, Georgy. What did you...

...like more: chopping down a Christmas tree or searching for...

...a sign in Central Park — I mean, in the central...

...park? That was nicer, wasn't it?

Squirrels running around, maybe feed a squirrel...

...like Robert Schlegel. I understand, it's hard...

...physical labor. Schlegel, you just love...

...everything foreign. Thanks a lot, Georgy.

We're waiting — don't ask...

Creative plans — we're all waiting for something...

...interesting from you. Thanks a lot.

And now, for the moment, let's listen to the legal...

...grounds for why...

...Medvedev should resign, because...

...what we did wasn't just...

...we found something, published it, great...

...we all laughed at them...

...and they laughed at us for being suckers...

...and saying it was all paid for.

But the situation with Medvedev's plane...

...specifically is grounds for...

...Medvedev's resignation, and this is what...

...the foundation's director and lawyer, Ivan Zhdanov, says.

Let's take a look. Dmitry Anatolyevich...

...Medvedev is also a lawyer. He's written entire books...

...on law, so he knows perfectly well...

...one thing: an airplane is immovable...

...property.

Even though it flies, this...

...is set out in Article 130 of the Civil...

...Code of the Russian Federation. The right...

...to use immovable property must be...

...declared.

Let's look at Medvedev's declarations. Here there is...

...an apartment...

...but they somehow forgot to mention the plane. It's not there. Nor is the dacha...

...in Plyos, and a lot of other things.

But the story of using the plane...

...by Svetlana Medvedeva is very telling. We...

...proved one hundred percent that Svetlana...

...Medvedeva uses the plane, but this...

...is not in Dmitry Medvedev's declaration.

For any government official...

...this is one hundred percent grounds...

...for resignation.

Did you notice what a wonderful...

...photograph is standing on the desk of the director...

...apparently someone from the family. And to wrap up...

...the program, I'll still take a couple more minutes...

...of your time. I just kind of want to...

...bring you back from Barcelona, from yachts, fancy planes...

...expensive things flying somewhere...

...and drop straight back into Mother Russia.

The city of Krasnoturyinsk, which was probably remembered...

...by many, many viewers of our program — excuse me...

...I remember it because...

...the head of that city is one...

...of the simply most brazen people on earth, and...

...quite recently he was scolding the public...

...the people gathered there because they...

...hadn't voted well enough for United...

...Russia (the ruling political party), and therefore the city didn't receive...

...additional money from the budget. And...

...he said that next time you'd better...

...vote better, and then there will be more money.

Let me remind you of that video for a couple...

...of seconds. At the present moment, when we...

...have become fourth from the bottom, we have no...

...future. On May 17 there will be the next...

...election to the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk...

...Region, and accordingly, if we...

...vote the same way or even worse, then...

...accordingly, you will get nothing.

I'm from... and I don't know the name of the park, but...

...this is our future, and the authorities are asking...

...us: support our candidate...

...dear friends, let's...

...support him. Once again I want to say...

...we voted 8, we got 13.

As of today, the result is that we do not...

...have a second school, no... and no...

...which they promised to build for us. Once again...

...I want to say: we may have different...

...attitudes toward this...

...but this is the result of the attitude toward the city of...

...Krasnoturyinsk.

If they ask you, then please...

you do what the authorities want from you

the mayor of Krasnoturyinsk tells us, and quite

recently, the authorities asked for something like this:

a deputy from United Russia, Mr.

Shipulin, a former

skier, a former well-known athlete, and

now a United Russia official, came to

some school to present awards to someone there.

At this time of year, in that part of the

Russian Federation, it is quite cold, but

in order for the United Russia politician to get

a nice photo op with students from the local

school,

the schoolchildren were forced out to a ceremonial assembly, where they

stood waiting. The United Russia politician was late; he had

some business to attend to, while the schoolchildren stood there

and stood there, waiting for him in the freezing cold. It was very

cold, but the authorities had asked for it, and so

they were not allowed to leave.

And the teachers, the principal, the local

administration—they deliberately kept

the schoolchildren out in the cold so that

the United Russia politician could arrive, hand out some gifts,

probably pens, and leave. That is exactly what

happened, and the local

public page Krasnoturyinsk Life wrote about it.

And now the authorities of this city

are demanding that this public page be shut down because

they wrote about it, and they are accusing them of

something like this—well, it is obvious why

they are shutting them down:

for using the city's coat of arms

on that very public page. I mean, this is just

completely absurd.

What a great setup they have:

they fly over us in jets, drive around in SUVs, and

sail around us on yachts, while

we are supposed to send ourselves—or our children—out

into the freezing cold so we can stand there and serve as

extras for some damn shabby

run-of-the-mill United Russia politician who simply

needs a photo for social media.

And if you do not like standing out in the cold

and if you so much as write about it, then

your public page will be shut down because

the authorities asked for it—so please, obey.

Do we need authorities like that? We do not. I

think that is a rhetorical question, so I

once again call on all viewers of this

program not to stay silent, to fight, and to make sure

that sooner or later

the ones standing out in the cold in Krasnoturyinsk will be

not us, but Asker-zade (a Russian TV host), banker

Kostin, Medvedev, and all the other people

who are parasitizing our country.

Thank you very much to everyone who watched.

See you next time.

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