CURRENTTIME — broadcast 20260806 073000 UTC 430 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:48] Citizens of our country have the opportunity to vote for peace and freedom, for the lives [00:00:52] of people (two): 10 parties for war, one [00:00:56] against. The Central Election Commission held a drawing of lots. [00:01:46] party, it's nothing more than a cell, said Dmitry Peskov, [00:01:49] press secretary of the Russian President, in a comment to the [00:01:52] Washington Post. He is sure, I quote: those who violate the [00:01:56] law are pressured, and those who do not violate it freely... [00:02:00] express their opinion. End of quote. The problem is [00:02:03] that, for example, an anti-war statement in Russia, any, can be interpreted [00:02:07] as illegal, or the publication of a photograph of Alexei Navalny. [00:02:11] Or the publication of a link to a video, in which there is a publication of a photograph of Alexei [00:02:14] Navalny. But everything is in strict accordance with the law. [00:02:18] For example, with politician Boris Nadezhdin, he was urgently deprived of passive [00:02:22] electoral rights, first being recognized as a foreign agent, then [00:02:25] a report was drawn up on the demonstration of extremist symbols, because [00:02:29] of a link. to that very video with a photograph of Alexei [00:02:32] Navalny. Nadezhdin left Russia, although he was going [00:02:35] to run in the State Duma elections as a self-nominated candidate. [00:02:39] The Yabloko party has problems with nominating candidates in [00:02:42] regional elections, for example in St. Petersburg and Karelia. There [00:02:46] they found different reasons, we will not dwell on them in detail now. The key point is that [00:02:49] there are strong politicians there, who consistently got into regional [00:02:52] parliaments. Yabloko has been absent from the State Duma since 2003, [00:02:56] and it is all the more curious that now, against the background of a clear [00:03:00] campaign, those who probably did not see Yabloko in the [00:03:04] State Duma live are campaigning for Yabloko. The federal list [00:03:07] of the party for the State Duma elections was approved by the Central Election Commission: in the federal [00:03:11] ballot, Yabloko got number two, after United [00:03:14] Russia, and independent analysts note: online, [00:03:17] Yabloko confidently ranks among the top three in terms of the number of subscribers in its [00:03:20] social networks, and on television it is practically in a block. We will [00:03:24] analyze both of these points today, both the offline and online situation. [00:03:28] Let's start with how Yabloko is discussed on TikTok. My [00:03:31] colleague Artur Davletchin will continue: a new [00:03:34] fork appeared, our country approached it a month [00:03:38] ago, the fate of Yabloko raised big questions, repression against [00:03:42] party members, additional checks by the Central Election Commission, it seemed, [00:03:45] put an end to the Duma campaign, however, the party was [00:03:49] allowed to participate in the elections, having registered a federal [00:03:52] list, which means that the only anti-war party has [00:03:55] a chance, we are the only political force offering a real [00:03:59] alternative. to the government's course, we stand for peace. [00:04:03] A week after the CEC decision on registration, a post appeared in the party's Telegram channel, [00:04:06] stating that they had surpassed United Russia in terms of [00:04:09] subscribers. Yabloko became the second most popular in [00:04:12] Telegram. New People occupied the first place, but on August 5, [00:04:16] Yabloko overtook them. Now more than [00:04:19] 90,000 people have subscribed to the party of peace's Telegram channel. But [00:04:23] any success is accompanied by failures. Recently, the party [00:04:26] announced the start of fundraising for its campaign, and soon the donation [00:04:30] collection site was subjected to a DDoS attack, and the growth in the number of subscribers [00:04:34] in the party was attributed to manipulation. On the day we overtook United [00:04:37] Russia in terms of Telegram subscribers, our channel was subjected to [00:04:41] a massive bot attack. It is obvious that the goal of this attack is to [00:04:44] discredit our result. Instead of honest [00:04:47] political competition, someone prefers to use dirty [00:04:50] technologies, but neither DDoS attacks nor bot manipulation [00:04:54] will change the main thing. People continue to come to us, [00:04:57] support us and stand for peace. Due to the lack [00:05:01] of access to old media, the party conducts its main campaign online, in [00:05:05] its social networks they publish speeches by the party chairman [00:05:08] Nikolai Rybakov or communication with other prominent members, for example, [00:05:11] Kirill. To change the situation in the country, [00:05:14] to truly show political subjectivity, [00:05:18] society will only be able to by voting for Yabloko. In social networks, Yabloko [00:05:22] posts memes to trending music. You can't listen to it due to copyright, [00:05:25] but we can show them to you. The unofficial anthem of the [00:05:29] campaign was a song by singer Yolka and the band Iowa. [00:05:32] Yabloko. Here, listen to our cover of it. [00:05:36] I give, I sing, in dandelions, [00:05:39] I divide in half, one apple. [00:05:42] Apple, apple, [00:05:45] apple. TikTok users not only shoot videos to [00:05:49] music, but also to speeches by other politicians, for example, Maxim [00:05:52] Katz, a former Yabloko member, by the way, each party from the systemic [00:05:55] opposition has its own role, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation should smell of grandma's [00:05:59] apartment with a Yugoslav sofa and almost kiss Stalin, [00:06:02] the Liberal Democratic Party should publicly compile execution lists, and the party of [00:06:06] citizens should be as bland as possible, or they make their own [00:06:09] political statements, vote. for [00:06:13] the Yabloko party, it is incredibly important, it [00:06:16] is the only party that opposes [00:06:20] the war. Don't vote for Yabloko, it won't get 5% and your vote [00:06:24] will go nowhere. Why are you saying this, [00:06:28] gentlemen, bloggers, political, liberal, by the way, [00:06:31] admitted to voting, you can vote for it, but the only problem, it [00:06:35] seems to me, is that most of the people who really want to vote for Yabloko are [00:06:39] not adults and cannot vote. Online successes [00:06:42] make rivals bite their elbows, or rather apples. Here, [00:06:46] for example, a creative from the New People party. In their social networks, they published [00:06:49] a video in which State Duma Vice-Speaker Vladislav Davankov [00:06:53] eats an apple. United Russia is also not lagging behind. The [00:06:56] Atlas of Elections project summarizes that the ruling party is trying to increase [00:07:00] its mentions on the Internet through administrative resources. They write in [00:07:03] regional and municipal official public pages, as well as subordinate [00:07:07] organizations. In the penultimate week of July, analysts [00:07:11] recorded an increase in mentions by 62%. [00:07:14] Well, Mr. Davankov and his comrades are more or less creative, in the second [00:07:18] part of our program we will quote some of Yabloko's competitors, there [00:07:21] were quite interesting formulations, and before the broadcast [00:07:25] we spoke with our source in the Yabloko party, we asked if this activity [00:07:29] on the network, is it a grassroots initiative, or does it [00:07:33] originate from the party itself? In these [00:07:35] elections, only Yabloko stands for peace, so people who are [00:07:39] tired of what is happening and want peace see this. and sincerely [00:07:43] support it. In essence, it is support not even for the party, but [00:07:46] for this very demand. We regard these elections as a [00:07:50] referendum. In this referendum, citizens will be able to [00:07:53] express whether they want what has been happening for the fifth year to continue, or [00:07:57] they want peace. For the continuation of what is happening, [00:07:59] 10 parties stand. In the ballot for peace, [00:08:03] only Yabloko. Therefore, campaigning for Yabloko on [00:08:06] the Internet is a grassroots initiative. This is [00:08:09] sincere support from our like-minded people. We are very [00:08:13] grateful to people for such support, for their active civic [00:08:16] position, and we will do everything to justify their trust, their [00:08:20] expectations. And with us live is political scientist Dmitry [00:08:24] Oreshkin. Dmitry, hello. [00:08:26] Good afternoon, hello. In your opinion, what is this phenomenon, the online phenomenon, I [00:08:30] would even say, of the Yabloko party right now? Well, [00:08:34] listen, first of all, 90 [00:08:37] thousand supporters, [00:08:40] well, for Russian standards. [00:09:12] I would not flatter myself with these [00:09:15] numbers, well, and generally, [00:09:19] in fact, you see, the Yabloko [00:09:22] electorate, and generally the Europeanized [00:09:26] democratic electorate, which, by the way, is quite [00:09:29] abundant in Russia, is found [00:09:32] mainly in large cities, represented mainly [00:09:35] by educated people, mainly with [00:09:39] average incomes, but not only. [00:09:42] And it is measured in, well, tens of millions of people, [00:09:46] 20-30 million, but this [00:09:50] electorate does not go to the polls, it does not believe in [00:09:54] the electoral process, in principle, in general [00:09:58] it can be understood, although if it were [00:10:01] rational, it would certainly [00:10:05] take part in this procedure, [00:10:08] but be that as it [00:10:10] may, [00:10:12] the masses, including the advanced, [00:10:15] educated, they in [00:10:19] most cases act irrationally, [00:10:22] that's uh, actually, even [00:10:26] the Yabloko message for peace, it's also [00:10:29] irrational, but how will Yabloko ensure peace, [00:10:33] if it, say, gets into [00:10:36] parliament, no way, but generally what is [00:10:39] formed in these elections, parliament is formed, the State [00:10:42] Duma, that very institution, where [00:10:45] the speaker five times chants [00:10:49] скандирует [00:10:51] there, Russia, Putin, victory, people. at [00:10:55] the same time, he is silent, well, if there were [00:10:58] 5% Yabloko deputies in this [00:11:02] hall, they would behave approximately the same way as [00:11:05] new people, that is, in fact, the Duma [00:11:09] political [00:11:12] actor [00:11:15] is, well, of significance, [00:11:19] well, the third group [00:11:21] of kindergarten, where - Komsomol or [00:11:29] Russia Putin - victory. [00:11:32] From this follows a simple conclusion that these [00:11:36] elections are not worth a broken penny. And the majority [00:11:39] of rationally thinking, or European [00:11:42] thinking, voters in Russia will behave [00:11:45] exactly that way. I believe that this is [00:11:48] wrong. I believe that it is right to behave [00:11:51] in the opposite way, to come, to come and... [00:11:55] somehow dispose of your [00:11:57] vote, but I know, after 25 [00:12:01] years of working with the electorate, how it will [00:12:04] actually be, in fact, people will put on a white [00:12:08] coat, say, vote or don't vote, [00:12:12] it means the result will be the same, with [00:12:15] thimble-riggers I don't play with, I don't understand varieties of Germany, [00:12:18] and they will beautifully ignore these [00:12:21] elections, in the Kremlin they know this perfectly [00:12:26] well, in Yabloko they also know this perfectly [00:12:28] well, I understand your skepticism perfectly, excuse me for interrupting, but just so that we don't lose [00:12:32] this thought, you said that there are clearly people who will most likely come to polling stations, well, and I [00:12:36] assume you are hinting that they will spoil their ballots as a clear [00:12:40] expression of protest, but our interlocutor in the Yabloko party today emphasized that they consider [00:12:44] this an anti-war referendum, well, it turns out from their position, in some [00:12:47] sense, one can assume that United Russia, and Putin in particular, also [00:12:51] perceive these elections as some kind of referendum, well, from his position, the [00:12:55] approval of the war, among other things, so he spoke, for example, at [00:12:58] the United Russia congress in person, which hadn't happened for a long time, this is the first, the second [00:13:01] is that 5 years is a huge electoral cycle for the State Duma, [00:13:05] possibly half a generation has grown up, which, firstly, [00:13:08] witnessed the beginning of the big war as minors, and secondly, [00:13:12] now it already has the right to vote, so here's such a double question, will this [00:13:16] referendum happen, considering, among other things, that spoiling ballots is also an expression of position, [00:13:19] and has that very Yabloko electorate that you talked about become [00:13:23] younger? [00:14:25] the more primitive a society is, the more strongly it depends on such symbolic [00:14:28] things, this is a ritual that must [00:14:31] be performed, and for a significant part, not of the Yabloko [00:14:35] electorate, but of a significant part of the majority of the population, this [00:14:38] is important, if this ritual takes place somehow [00:14:41] too incorrectly, it will be [00:14:45] perceived as a weakness of power, the second is [00:14:48] a test of control [00:14:51] over the situation in the regions and accordingly a test of [00:14:55] the effectiveness of regional bosses, the Kremlin deeply [00:14:59] doesn't care what numbers they will get, draw, suck [00:15:02] from their finger, mobilize the population, it doesn't matter, [00:15:06] but if they bring the numbers in their teeth, it means they have coped [00:15:09] with the task, and regional bosses understand this well, in different [00:15:13] regions, the way of obtaining this number will be [00:15:15] extremely different, this also needs to be understood, in [00:15:19] urban regions it's one story, in rural - [00:15:22] another, in electoral sultanates it's completely different, nevertheless, [00:15:26] it's a test for the government to see how the machine works, [00:15:30] and third, also very important, it's one [00:15:33] of many ways of competition in pro-Putin [00:15:37] forces, which compete with each [00:15:40] other to show their effectiveness, who will win, [00:15:44] who will be able or not be able to raise money, [00:15:47] gather votes, gather administrative resources, to get this very [00:15:51] number, so these three parameters, [00:15:55] ritual, test and competition, [00:15:58] elections are important for this government, and for [00:16:01] the voter it's a way of demonstration and nothing [00:16:05] more for such a... European-minded [00:16:08] voter, a way of demonstration, you can [00:16:11] demonstrate that you don't care when you don't go to the polls, [00:16:15] all together, you [00:16:18] take from Zyuganov to [00:16:21] Yavlinsky, you can come and spoil [00:16:24] the ballot, in this situation this is not the best option, you [00:16:28] can come and vote for Yabloko, despite the fact that some [00:16:31] part of the votes will be stolen there and so on and so forth, in this [00:16:35] situation I think it would be more correct to vote for... Yabloko, [00:16:38] but as a person with extensive experience [00:16:41] in observing elections, I think that the first point is, [00:16:45] a huge part of the potential Yabloko electorate will proudly [00:16:49] and foolishly ignore the elections, well, that's how our [00:16:52] public opinion is structured, [00:16:54] second, [00:16:57] when counting votes, people controlled by Mr. [00:17:00] Kiriyenko, if there are too many Yabloko members, [00:17:04] it will suddenly turn out that Yabloko is politely... and you [00:17:07] can't do anything about it, no courts will save you, [00:17:10] well, [00:17:13] third - it's that, [00:17:16] that uh, in fact, [00:17:20] as sad as it is, Yabloko is also [00:17:24] a member of this team, and [00:17:27] otherwise it would not exist in Russia, [00:17:31] it was very carefully [00:17:34] trimmed, painted, castrated, deprived of... [00:17:38] two regions where it was [00:17:41] really possible to get at least one or two deputies [00:17:45] in a single-mandate constituency, that's clearly Karelia and [00:17:48] clearly Moscow, the most prominent [00:17:52] figures were put in prison, Lev Shlosberg is behind [00:17:55] bars, and so, [00:17:58] after castrating, then tying its legs, and also [00:18:01] putting blinders on its eyes, [00:18:04] Yabloko was released on the track. well, [00:18:07] it's painfully difficult to force yourself [00:18:11] to vote for such a fighter for peace, but Russia has [00:18:15] no other options, but again I want to say, rationally, [00:18:18] of course, yes, as far as I know [00:18:22] the character of the deeply respected Russian [00:18:25] voter, well, he won't go, he [00:18:27] is ready to vote for a strong leader, be [00:18:31] it Yeltsin, be it Navalny, be it [00:18:34] someone else. He is not yet [00:18:39] ready to vote for abstract [00:18:41] values, so [00:18:44] I would wholeheartedly suggest [00:18:48] voting for Yabloko, but I know that this will not happen, and if [00:18:51] it does, then of course it will not be allowed to get more [00:18:55] than 3%, let's remember this forecast, but this is what [00:18:59] is called at the federal level, I also want to note that in addition to the elections [00:19:02] to the federal parliament, there are also regional elections, precisely at [00:19:06] the federal level. [00:19:37] and he can, so Shlosberg must [00:19:39] be imprisoned, Pskov neutralized, he [00:19:43] understands, that in [00:19:46] Karelia it's the same, he understands that Moscow and [00:19:50] St. Petersburg are still two potentially [00:19:53] dangerous regions, in fact, [00:19:56] that's all, it's all over, there's almost nothing left, [00:19:59] you can try to catch something in Novosibirsk, somewhere else, but hardly, [00:20:03] that is, he did [00:20:05] everything to... to [00:20:08] maintain the appearance of such [00:20:12] a democracy, completely castrating all its [00:20:15] content, in this [00:20:18] sense he put down a straw three times [00:20:22] for himself so as not to fall, so as not to let Yabloko [00:20:26] suddenly bring someone, and participate, well, yes, [00:20:29] of course, please, we'll say later, [00:20:32] as Stalin said, we have the most democratic [00:20:36] constitution. [00:20:50] We read the analytics, looked at what and how everything is currently arranged with federal [00:20:54] channels, they show universal support for the so-called [00:20:57] SVO, and ignore Yabloko's peace program, in particular, the [00:21:01] Atlas of Elections project writes about this, plus analysts noted that federal [00:21:04] channels generally try to minimize the breadth of coverage [00:21:07] of the parliamentary race, these elections are going on, well, let them go on, they will only be in September, there is still [00:21:11] more than a month left until them, the head of the Just [00:21:15] Russia faction, Sergei Mironov, urged the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's Office to carefully [00:21:18] look at the party. and its leaders, to give a legal assessment of their [00:21:22] actions, plus he called some party representatives traitors, unnamed without getting personal, [00:21:25] another deputy Zhuravlev generally caused a scandal right in the Central Election Commission [00:21:29] and also under the pretext of Yabloko's anti-war position, this is what [00:21:32] caused his claims, we will tell and show more in our [00:21:36] report. Russia, [00:21:39] Putin, victory. The slogans [00:21:41] of State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, with which he closed this [00:21:44] convocation of the State Duma, are quite predictable. During the war... [00:21:48] in the Russian parliament, laws, as a rule, [00:21:50] are adopted unanimously or with the passive participation of non-voting [00:21:54] deputies. Many Russians are not interested in the September [00:21:58] elections from the point of view of new faces appearing in parliament, [00:22:01] few doubt the victory of the ruling party, in connection with rumors of possible [00:22:05] mobilization after the vote, however, at the end [00:22:08] of July, the CEC suddenly registered Yabloko, [00:22:11] a party that is running in the elections with the slogan "for peace and freedom", [00:22:14] advocates for a ceasefire agreement and against political [00:22:17] repression. [00:22:50] requirements of the legislation receive very little airtime compared [00:22:53] to United Russia and other parliamentary factions, [00:22:57] notes the Atlas of Elections project. On Wednesday, Yabloko [00:23:00] received the second number on the ballot as a result of the CEC draw, [00:23:04] it was shown on TV. Why did you decide not to rotate the Alatron? Because [00:23:07] all the numbers that remained suit me. [00:23:11] Well done! And moreover, I got what we wanted, because [00:23:15] the real choice in the elections is either United Russia or Yabloko, our number [00:23:18] two. Oh! Number [00:23:21] two: [00:23:23] now we know that citizens of our country have the opportunity to vote for [00:23:27] peace and freedom, for people's lives. This is the first case in the current [00:23:31] campaign when Yabloko's anti-war agenda could be heard on [00:23:34] air. Over the past week, federal channels have generally [00:23:37] reduced coverage of the election race. On Channel One, the share of such [00:23:41] stories was only 2.5%, falling [00:23:44] more than 10 times compared to the previous week, reports [00:23:48] the Atlas of Elections. Yabloko managed to increase the number of mentions on [00:23:51] federal channels, overtaking other small parties, but again [00:23:55] without focusing on the anti-war program. As part of state [00:23:59] support for families of SVO participants, 36 [00:24:02] regional support measures are in effect, the governor said they [00:24:05] strive to implement them proactively. Last [00:24:08] week, TV channels tried to create in viewers a sense of consolidation [00:24:12] around support for the war and Russia's foreign policy, notes the [00:24:15] Atlas of Elections. One of the main indicators of uneven [00:24:19] coverage of parties' work over the past weeks is that stories about [00:24:22] their pre-election congresses, for example, the United Russia congress [00:24:25] received more airtime than all other [00:24:28] parties combined. Well, [00:24:31] is it worth recalling the famous epic of Mr. Zhuravlev about Danish [00:24:35] turtles in allegedly public houses for zoophiles. An old meme, if [00:24:38] you want, look it up on the Internet yourself, let's remember another [00:24:41] episode, a recent, fresher one, a month ago Zhuravlev [00:24:45] was asked why so few deputies or their children are fighting [00:24:48] against Ukraine at all... [00:25:20] no one was there, none of you, I am the only one who was at Zakharchenko's [00:25:24] configuration, and you, you tell me, [00:25:27] and where, show me your document, I don't need it at all, because you [00:25:31] didn't understand that all deputies are forbidden to participate there [00:25:34] only with permission, [00:25:35] Order of Courage hero, that's [00:25:39] fine, I don't know where he participated, I know where I [00:25:42] participated, I have fallen guys and I didn't [00:25:45] die not because I was hiding behind their backs. [00:25:49] Go to hell, go [00:26:03] there yourself, well, our interlocutor in the Yabloko party is generally [00:26:07] optimistic in this tele-disposition, he claims that [00:26:10] there is still free airtime ahead, as required by law, plus [00:26:13] televised debates, and there it will also be possible to state Yabloko's position and [00:26:16] pronounce their election slogans aloud [00:26:20] on the federal channel. We will continue the topic with political scientist Dmitry [00:26:23] Arishkin. Dmitry, what do you think about these outbursts from Mironov, [00:26:27] he actually wrote this in writing in his Telegram channel, and Zhuravlev [00:26:30] right in the Central Election Commission. [00:26:42] artillery such an army of fleas, which bite, [00:26:45] hysteria is very characteristic, [00:26:47] indicative, but in the Kremlin there are people less hysterical and [00:26:51] more rational, so they understand what [00:26:55] they are doing, they understand that, yes, now [00:26:59] they will release a pack of these little mongrels. [00:27:02] which will not harm Yabloko, by [00:27:06] God, themselves too, [00:27:10] because their electorate is the same, but the point is not [00:27:13] this, the strategy is as follows: the Kremlin controls [00:27:17] the situation, it would otherwise have made [00:27:20] it so that [00:27:23] Yabloko's leadership would have gone the same way as [00:27:27] Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin, well, [00:27:29] the Kremlin now considered that Nadezhdin represents some kind of systemic, [00:27:33] poorly manageable threat, so it's better to [00:27:36] close it, Yabloko they do not consider such [00:27:40] a threat, I think they consider it [00:27:43] on the contrary, [00:27:46] a convenient tool to suppress [00:27:49] anti-war sentiments, they [00:27:52] will count as many numbers, as many percentages [00:27:55] as they deem necessary, then they will say, here you go, they [00:27:59] will forget that they were not allowed, removed, [00:28:03] imprisoned, [00:28:05] hands and feet were tied, they will talk to their [00:28:09] voters, who are the majority in Russia, and tell [00:28:12] them, here Yabloko advocated [00:28:15] for peace, how much did they get, [00:28:18] 1.7, 2.3, [00:28:22] 2.9, well, something like that, [00:28:25] here's your Europeanized, [00:28:28] they will tell Russian voters, and... [00:28:32] Western-funded Yabloko, [00:28:35] relying on foreign agents, if you look [00:28:39] one and a half moves ahead, the picture will be the [00:28:42] same, while I, based on what I [00:28:46] think about these elections, what I have already said, still believe [00:28:49] that with all, with all the negative [00:28:53] aspects understandings, painful [00:28:56] understandings of this process, you have to vote for Yabloko, but [00:29:00] there is absolutely nothing to hope for... there's nothing [00:29:04] and there's nowhere to retreat either, [00:29:08] so you need to be calm, [00:29:11] courageous, not get offended, do what is necessary [00:29:15] and not be deceived. Dmitry, thank you very much, political scientist [00:29:18] Dmitry Oreshkin was with us live on air, discussing this, this [00:29:22] battle between TikTok and television, well, at