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[00:00:00] is itself
[00:00:03] and going out into such a cage, and
[00:00:06] where the ceiling and walls are completely, well, in bars, that is,
[00:00:10] you just walk around as if in some kind of this,
[00:00:13] like in an aviary, an aviary, you
[00:00:16] walk around, just walk in circles, but I ran every day
[00:00:20] to still get some physical activity,
[00:00:22] every day when I went out, I just ran a few
[00:00:26] laps, about 15, 20 minutes, I spent on...
[00:00:30] We also tried to squat and pull up, I don't know,
[00:00:34] we performed some elements like that, you could kick
[00:00:38] a ball, well, like a ball, it wasn't a ball, it was made from some kind of
[00:00:42] sack, they stuffed sheets or something in it
[00:00:45] and kicked it, well, that was at least some entertainment. We had one
[00:00:49] girl from our cell, my friend, who I flew to
[00:00:52] Moscow for, she wrote a song, and
[00:00:56] then we sang it every day, just from the windows, well, when you go out for a walk.
[00:01:00] In principle, for all prisoners, it's entertainment, because you have nothing,
[00:01:03] you have this window with bars, it's like a TV, that
[00:01:07] is, someone went out for a walk, that's it, everyone runs to the window to see what
[00:01:10] will happen, and that's how we go out and
[00:01:13] entertain the public, so to speak, because there are these
[00:01:17] buildings all around, everyone is watching, well, there are men's cells, women's,
[00:01:21] it doesn't matter, we sang a song, they applauded us, clapped,
[00:01:25] asked for more, I remember, we go out into the cage, into
[00:01:28] this aviary.
[00:01:31] We shout "Hello Olympic!" and start singing this
[00:01:34] song, and simply everyone from the cells starts
[00:01:38] looking out the windows, then they applauded, everyone really
[00:01:41] liked it, and I think thanks to this song, well,
[00:01:45] you're talking about our cell, that it became somewhat
[00:01:48] famous, I think because of it, there
[00:01:52] were probably some very strong positive emotions when everyone goes out
[00:01:56] for a walk and starts singing a song and the whole place shakes.
[00:02:02] The guards don't really understand what to do, because they're probably not
[00:02:06] used to such a contingent at Sakharovo,
[00:02:09] because there were a lot of very young guys there
[00:02:12] mostly.
[00:02:14] I don't know, it felt very warm from
[00:02:17] the feeling of cohesion inside, that is, all
[00:02:21] the cells passed what was needed to each other, everyone
[00:02:24] wrote down every cell, who was sitting where, so that when
[00:02:28] calling, they could pass on to someone where their relative was sitting, and
[00:02:32] that was very supportive, it was very powerful.
[00:02:35] The overseers, I don't know what to call them correctly, they call themselves managers for some reason,
[00:02:38] who bring around this
[00:02:42] food, all of this, when there are
[00:02:45] like four teams that rotate,
[00:02:49] work around the clock, and each time, that is, a new one came in for the
[00:02:52] first four days, each time you had to establish some kind of
[00:02:56] contact with them, so one of these new crews... I remember very
[00:03:00] well how the door opened with a terrible
[00:03:04] bang, he started banging on the door
[00:03:06] and just with incredible rage
[00:03:10] in his voice, and we were sleeping, it was 7 in the morning, they were doing a
[00:03:13] shift change, he started
[00:03:16] yelling at us, why we didn't wake
[00:03:20] up after the knock, his voice left such a strong impression, I
[00:03:24] felt so scared, I really wanted to throw a pillow at him, that was probably
[00:03:28] the most vivid thing at that moment...
[00:03:32] Second detail, our cell was on the first
[00:03:35] floor, overall, our window was visible from
[00:03:39] this grate, when the guys went out to
[00:03:42] shout, specifically into this cage
[00:03:45] outside, they chanted different slogans
[00:03:48] or sang songs, we wanted to show them that we
[00:03:52] heard them, we cut out the words "well done" from
[00:03:55] paper sheets and glued them in reverse
[00:03:59] order onto the from the other side,
[00:04:03] and at night, when the light
[00:04:07] went out, a lantern lit up
[00:04:11] outside, these words reflected on our wall,
[00:04:14] right above my bed,
[00:04:17] and this is also a very important detail, incredibly
[00:04:20] romantic and beautiful. I experienced a
[00:04:23] catharsis when the prisoners started singing
[00:04:27] the anthem of Russia. I was truly surprised by my feelings, because
[00:04:30] it was a bit of a strange moment, because
[00:04:34] I, well, I already have a slightly different attitude towards this melody
[00:04:38] because of propaganda and all this flora,
[00:04:41] but when the prisoners started singing it, I really
[00:04:45] had something very strange inside, and it was very indicative for these
[00:04:48] men who work there, because they generally saw,
[00:04:51] well, there were many people with higher education, obviously,
[00:04:55] they saw some of their own children,
[00:04:59] this singing of the Russian anthem,
[00:05:01] the very same one, which is that,
[00:05:05] that very anthem, it sounded completely different, I was surprised, it was somehow,
[00:05:09] "Glorious country, we are proud of you," that line was generally wonderful, because
[00:05:12] as, well, obviously in the cage,
[00:05:16] before that, a fire alarm went off,
[00:05:20] so, I started banging on the door and telling the guards that they should
[00:05:23] generally evacuate us, and they told me: "Don't worry, this is a fire, it's like a
[00:05:27] training alarm." I said, "Well, that's the whole point of a training alarm, will you be able
[00:05:31] to evacuate all of us?" Like, without that, it's useless. He was like, "No, no,
[00:05:34] relax." Well, and you relax, because
[00:05:38] you have no options, you're still like, if...
[00:05:42] you burn alive in a cell, you might as well be relaxed, I don't know, anyway, there are no options
[00:05:46] anyway, so you have to relax, but it was
[00:05:49] just an unpleasant moment that I remember, that at that
[00:05:53] moment it hit me, I
[00:05:55] looked at it all from the outside again, I saw that we were several
[00:05:59] hundred activists who did nothing wrong, and yet we
[00:06:03] are sitting locked up in these cells, in case
[00:06:06] of anything, God forbid a fire, counting on these
[00:06:10] village men, even if... they're not bad people, yes, but
[00:06:13] counting on them to at that moment run down the
[00:06:16] corridors, pick up keys, open these giant metal doors
[00:06:20] and save someone besides themselves
[00:06:22] is not an option. At that moment I realized that in case of anything, everything
[00:06:26] would be bad, it's always, always, you fight for any
[00:06:29] of your rights there, it's just, well, such a given,
[00:06:33] you have no rights, you want something, you need to
[00:06:36] fight for it, and many girls, yes,
[00:06:39] they are probably good, I don't know, they were very
[00:06:43] grateful to the convoy that helped them with this, I couldn't do
[00:06:46] it, I had some position that this is my right,
[00:06:50] it is not realized, and it terribly annoys me, when
[00:06:54] it was realized, it seemed to me, this is like something that should
[00:06:57] be, I don't want to say thank you for this, I shouldn't say
[00:07:01] thank you for this, I generally couldn't thank the convoy for anything,
[00:07:04] I couldn't
[00:07:05] at all.
[00:07:09] Who are these convoy guys mostly from? I understand
[00:07:13] not from Moscow region, well, that is
[00:07:15] from some near or far
[00:07:17] Moscow region.
[00:07:20] Just ordinary people with ordinary salaries, mortgages, children, generally
[00:07:23] mortgages, children – this is a very common story, such a
[00:07:27] portrait of these law enforcement
[00:07:30] agencies. Well, they even say
[00:07:33] sometimes, "We understand, we agree, but you see, we have children,
[00:07:36] a mortgage." Well, it's clear, well, that
[00:07:40] is, these are ordinary people, that's the
[00:07:44] problem, well, the banality of evil, I don't want to speak grandiosely now, but that's
[00:07:48] what it's about, yes, evil is banal –
[00:07:51] these are ordinary people, they go to ordinary stores, they have ordinary children, yes, or
[00:07:55] extraordinary children, they have a mortgage, an apartment in a new building in
[00:07:59] the Moscow region, everything is fine with them, they throw away your pills, well,
[00:08:03] this is what doesn't fit in my head, they just, well, take them, throw them away,
[00:08:07] some huge cultural gap, yes
[00:08:10] absolutely, which is unclear how, how
[00:08:12] to solve. And there was some
[00:08:16] duty officer sitting there, on the first floor at a desk,
[00:08:19] a half-asleep old man, suddenly he saw me, stood up, came over and
[00:08:23] said: "You are probably my age,
[00:08:26] right?"
[00:08:29] "You can probably tell me, how did
[00:08:32] we just screw up the Soviet
[00:08:35] Union so badly? And now Russia
[00:08:38] too." I told him,
[00:08:43] "Well, look around you, you are in the Soviet Union
[00:08:47] completely, look around you, do you see
[00:08:50] any difference?"
[00:08:53] The new demagogue left, by the way,
[00:08:57] after these events,
[00:09:00] and my boyfriend left me, as
[00:09:03] funny as it may be, the fact
[00:09:07] is that my friends, when they found out what
[00:09:09] happened, organized a large
[00:09:12] support group, started looking for some package for me, well, but all
[00:09:16] the information, I had one moment, one opportunity to write
[00:09:20] where I was and what was happening to me, and I wrote to my boyfriend, of course.
[00:09:23] Then, when we were given a phone to call
[00:09:27] relatives, of course, I dial his number and realize that he is completely unaware of what
[00:09:30] is happening, while the entire
[00:09:33] rescue team is dealing with my package, completely different people.
[00:09:37] When I already got out of Sakharovo,
[00:09:40] he knew when I would... I'm walking,
[00:09:43] well,
[00:09:47] I wasn't expecting him
[00:09:50] to stand with a banner by the doors of Sakharovo and wait for me, but I wanted some kind of "everything is fine," you don't have to agree with my point of
[00:09:54] view, just tell me that everything is fine.
[00:09:56] And when we talked the next morning, I
[00:10:00] got out late at night, at one
[00:10:04] in the morning, I still had to get there, never mind, and in the morning, when we
[00:10:08] talked,
[00:10:10] I asked, "Why didn't you call? You knew when I was
[00:10:13] getting out." Uh, a large
[00:10:17] stream of indignation fell on me, about
[00:10:20] "I'm not going to be your support group, and what
[00:10:24] kind of star is this? Why should you be given so much
[00:10:27] attention, you went there, you sat there for four days, sat,
[00:10:31] got out, left, that's it, why so much
[00:10:34] attention to you, you have enough, well, like your
[00:10:38] friends, why are you demanding this attention from me too?"
[00:10:41] And I said, "Well, I'm sorry, maybe
[00:10:45] something also happened to you, tell me, share your experiences
[00:10:49] with me, I will support you, sorry that I pulled the blanket
[00:10:52] over myself," to which I was told, "No,
[00:10:56] sit with your blanket yourself." The first desire that
[00:10:59] I had after I got out was to just close myself off from the rest
[00:11:02] of the world, yes, like, just change all my numbers
[00:11:06] and so on, because this
[00:11:08] feeling
[00:11:10] of some kind,
[00:11:13] I don't even
[00:11:15] know, not even fear, but some
[00:11:19] kind of suppression, such a wild
[00:11:21] suppression, a terrible kind of...
[00:11:25] some kind of wrongness, some kind of wrongness of
[00:11:29] this situation, it was some kind of feeling,
[00:11:32] you understand, something absolutely wrong happened in life,
[00:11:36] yes, like, and you just sit there and think about how to get out of this
[00:11:39] trauma, who can even
[00:11:42] help you, and what you need to do in this situation and how you
[00:11:46] need to change yourself to somehow not experience this
[00:11:50] again, because I'll say this, that it's hard
[00:11:54] to recover from it, hard.
[00:11:57] On the first day when I got out of
[00:12:00] Sakharovo, well, I first slept, then
[00:12:03] went out into the city and caught myself
[00:12:06] thinking that I was just scared to walk, I
[00:12:09] was walking and everything was shaking, that is, I had become so unaccustomed to
[00:12:13] any kind of society, to sounds, to cars, to
[00:12:17] the big city, that I was walking, looking, and when
[00:12:20] I saw police in the
[00:12:24] subway... I almost lost it myself, I was so
[00:12:28] scared, and it seemed to me that they would come up to me
[00:12:31] again and put me somewhere, I'm not kidding right now,
[00:12:35] I thought overall it kind of psychologically
[00:12:39] passed by me, although I am
[00:12:41] an emotional person, but I never cried in prison, nothing
[00:12:45] like that happened, I thought, well, we sat, we left,
[00:12:49] okay, it turned out no, that is, I even had dreams
[00:12:52] that I was there, well, for about a week, two, that
[00:12:55] is, subconsciously it's so deeply
[00:12:59] ingrained in you that you walk and you're just
[00:13:03] scared, you're triggered, I remember, I'm riding the subway on an escalator,
[00:13:06] on an escalator, and in front of me stands a guy, he has
[00:13:10] on the back of his jacket a kind of ruled
[00:13:13] grid, well, like black and white in the form of a chessboard, my
[00:13:17] trigger goes off, like we played chess with toilet paper in
[00:13:21] Sakharovo, that is, we made different colored paper, I just...
[00:13:24] I see us taking this paper,
[00:13:27] molding it like this, sitting like this, and I'm like, Yul, you, you
[00:13:31] what, calm down, I walk on, police, it's
[00:13:35] very scary, actually, when I see alarms on the street or
[00:13:38] cars passing by, or police vans in the center are also
[00:13:42] standing somewhere, I walk past like that, I'm always in a mask in the subway,
[00:13:45] always wearing gloves, just in case, if they approach
[00:13:48] me, it was very scary, now it's
[00:13:51] calmer, now it's somehow normal, but then...
[00:13:56] I was shocked that something like this could generally, well, affect the
[00:14:00] psyche so strongly, when
[00:14:03] after Sakharovo I went to my psychotherapist, she told me: "Listen, you
[00:14:06] went through some very powerful therapy, you really changed." I didn't
[00:14:09] feel it at all, because indeed,
[00:14:13] when you come out, the world changes a little, it
[00:14:15] shifts relative to you, for those who don't have
[00:14:19] such an experience, I just started to understand how
[00:14:23] it all works from the inside. I started to understand that, for example,
[00:14:26] police officers are not werewolves in
[00:14:30] uniform, as some say, these are also just people,
[00:14:33] yes, they are on the other side of the barricades, some are not, I
[00:14:37] had very interesting conversations with police officers
[00:14:41] there, but it's some kind of feeling that
[00:14:44] what I'm doing is not in vain. The main,
[00:14:47] probably the only emotion I had in the end
[00:14:50] was how cool people are, that is, whoever I met,
[00:14:54] what? The police station where I spent almost a day from the moment
[00:14:58] of detention until the court, what in the police van on
[00:15:01] the way to court, where we also drove for a long time, what in the police van
[00:15:05] on the court grounds, what in the police van from court to
[00:15:08] the special detention center, what in the distribution room of the special detention center, what in
[00:15:11] my cell, wherever I ended up, these were all different people, but they were all
[00:15:15] wonderful, that is, everywhere a common language was found just
[00:15:19] from half a word, everyone was absolutely
[00:15:21] their own, intelligent, educated.
[00:15:25] It was really interesting to talk to everyone about something.
[00:15:29] This was the main emotion, what wonderful people, this
[00:15:32] was my main emotion when I came out, I thought, we are cool, that
[00:15:35] is, if you pick four random people from a rally,
[00:15:39] you can have a great week with them in one cell,
[00:15:43] I don't wish this experience on anyone, I don't,
[00:15:46] no, it's not needed in life, you understand, but unfortunately
[00:15:49] it exists in our life.
[00:16:52] What made young people become
[00:16:54] punks half a century ago? Punk is loud, rebellious,
[00:16:57] audacious, a product of its time and, above all,
[00:17:01] a protest, but is this protest still alive today? We dive into
[00:17:04] the world of mohawks, torn jeans, where they are not afraid to go.
[00:17:35] against the rules. Before it's too late, what's left.
[00:18:37] today, but still, to our credit, we did not
[00:18:40] call it special. No mortar,
[00:18:43] no mortar, we already have three seriously wounded, and
[00:18:47] Dzhokhar after his death dreamed,
[00:18:50] and he said, "I am not dead, I am alive," and Maskhadov
[00:18:53] and Lebed, interrupting negotiations, roared,
[00:18:56] "Stop, stop the fire!"
[00:19:00] Then Boris Abramovich returned and said:
[00:19:04] "That's it." They asked, "What's that?"
[00:19:37] Damn,
[00:19:45] if something happens to me, there will be a scandal not only in
[00:19:48] Moscow, but all over the world. They
[00:19:51] killed my father, I can't just
[00:19:54] stay silent.
[00:19:58] I had no ambitions to become a public figure,
[00:20:02] an activist or anything of that sort. To imagine that my
[00:20:05] life would be like this - no.
[00:20:07] Excluded.
[00:20:10] Do you have solid evidence that Putin directly
[00:20:14] ordered this, because what you said is
[00:20:17] the most direct accusation against a Russian leader in all
[00:20:21] history.
[00:20:26] What you managed to do here is absolutely incredible. I mean
[00:20:29] the foundation you created here in Germany, the Boris
[00:20:33] Nemtsov Foundation.
[00:20:37] All. Graduates, my great inspiration and my
[00:20:40] motivation to do what I have been doing for 8
[00:20:42] years.
[00:20:45] I always set a new goal for myself and try to achieve it, that
[00:20:48] is my life.
[00:20:56] Frontex maritime police, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency,
[00:21:00] is searching for refugees trying to
[00:21:04] cross from Turkey to Greece. At the same time, in Indonesia it is already
[00:21:08] early morning. Among the people at morning prayer are
[00:21:11] Afghans who fled to this country. They thought
[00:21:14] that in the largest Muslim country they would finally be
[00:21:18] safe, but this is completely not the case, a typical
[00:21:21] day in the life of
[00:21:23] refugees.
[00:21:29] What does it mean for us to reach the borders of the Donetsk
[00:21:33] region? We will present this as a victory, but let it not be
[00:21:36] an unconditional victory, but nevertheless a victory on points. Putin
[00:21:40] demands to seize Donbass by the end of this year. Such an
[00:21:43] order to the generals, according to a source of the Reuters agency
[00:21:47] in the Kremlin, he gave it a few days ago. By the end of the year,
[00:21:50] there is a high probability of complete
[00:21:53] control over the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk
[00:21:56] defense region, well, that is, reaching the
[00:21:59] Donetsk, the Donetsk administrative
[00:22:02] border. Moscow has postponed the deadlines for taking Donbass
[00:22:06] at least fifteen times, calculated the American Institute
[00:22:10] for the Study of War. Nobody knows the deadlines for reaching
[00:22:13] the borders, the possibility of reaching the administrative borders
[00:22:17] of Donbass. In February 2022, the Kremlin
[00:22:20] hoped for a quick victory, hoping to completely capture
[00:22:24] Donbass by September 15th. In May
[00:22:26] 2026, the Financial Times wrote that
[00:22:30] Putin again planned to take the Donetsk region by autumn.
[00:22:33] Now, Kyiv claims, the military allegedly asks him to postpone
[00:22:37] the deadlines for the sixteenth time, until the end of March
[00:22:40] 2027. Analysts from the USA believe that at
[00:22:44] this rate of the Russian army's offensive, it will not be possible to capture Donbass
[00:22:47] until 2032.
[00:22:50] The ideologists of this war understand what is at stake,
[00:22:54] there will be no victory, their history will be erased, and while there are no great
[00:22:57] victories in Ukraine, small and even
[00:23:01] fabricated ones are used, Kozacha Lopan has been liberated,
[00:23:04] and yesterday the city of Sviatohirsk. After such
[00:23:07] a statement by Putin, denials from Ukrainian military, local residents and
[00:23:11] journalists poured in from the allegedly
[00:23:14] captured city, but Kremlin media continue to claim that
[00:23:18] Sviatohirsk has been taken. The same thing happened with Kupiansk in
[00:23:21] Kharkiv region. Among turbo-patriots, the concept of "flag-planting"
[00:23:25] has long been common, a staged video recording of
[00:23:28] planting a flag in a city that has not yet been captured.
[00:23:32] Such victories lead only to an increase in already
[00:23:35] high losses of the Russian army. Individual
[00:23:38] social network users ironically offer their
[00:23:42] peaceful plan for ending the war. They suggested
[00:23:45] an excellent idea for a successful resolution of the conflict. "Can't
[00:23:48] we, for example, in October, announce the capture of
[00:23:51] Slavyansk and Kramatorsk and reach the borders of the DPR?"
[00:23:55] Z-patriots habitually blame the military for everything and shield
[00:23:58] Putin, saying that incompetent generals deceive him and make
[00:24:02] a clown out of him. Publicly criticizing the president,
[00:24:05] supporters of the war still do
[00:24:08] not dare.
[00:24:11] Telling European stories, Goethe Medal
[00:24:13] 2026. The Goethe Medal is awarded for
[00:24:17] achievements in promoting European
[00:24:20] culture abroad, all laureates of 2026 use
[00:24:24] the power of art to defend diversity and
[00:24:26] democracy.
[00:24:29] Among them is theater director Prodromos Tsinikoris,
[00:24:32] noted for strengthening cultural ties between Greece and
[00:24:36] Germany. And literary translator Anita
[00:24:39] Raja, who became the Italian voice of the legendary
[00:24:42] East German writer Christa
[00:24:44] Wolf.
[00:25:06] I was Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's press secretary,
[00:25:09] and I was arrested before the elections. In
[00:25:12] 2020, we started going to
[00:25:15] student protests, and they gave us 2 and
[00:25:18] a half years. I wrote three posts on VKontakte,
[00:25:22] so in short, I have to serve 3 years in a colony.
[00:25:49] I endured. Doubtless, I deceived no one and stole
[00:25:53] nothing, I did not remain silent when I saw injustice
[00:25:56] and lawlessness, and I was ready to take responsibility into my
[00:26:00] own hands.
[00:26:22] After the death of Vitold Shurk, I was in the same
[00:26:26] prison where he was
[00:26:27] held.
[00:29:02] keep lying on the couch and watching all this lawlessness
[00:29:05] happen. When they
[00:29:09] detained me themselves, they put me
[00:29:13] face down on the seat of the minibus,
[00:29:16] and one of them sat on top of me on my shoulders,
[00:29:19] purposefully hitting me, one blow to the
[00:29:22] kidneys, one blow to the head, one blow to the kidneys, one blow to the
[00:29:26] head, that's how we drove around the city
[00:29:30] for about 15 minutes and... they were
[00:29:33] beating me up.
[00:29:39] I was a member of Viktor Babariko's campaign staff, he was one of the presidential
[00:29:43] candidates, I was detained on the second day after
[00:29:46] the elections on August 11, 2020. I was
[00:29:50] transferred to Volodarka, which is pre-trial detention center number one
[00:29:54] in Minsk, and I spent
[00:29:55] six months there.
[00:30:28] huge number of people in small areas.
[00:30:38] sun almost never enters, because
[00:30:42] on the windows there are these
[00:30:44] metal bars, like blinds, which essentially
[00:30:48] do not let any light in at all, only a little light for
[00:30:52] existence
[00:30:56] and.