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[00:00:00] and lives below
[00:00:07] a country of poor people?
[00:00:10] Make them respect you. Vote for the real
[00:00:14] opposition, for
[00:00:15] the CPRF.
[00:00:18] I believe that all people can become kind and happy.
[00:00:22] I really want my dad's factory to start working. I wish my
[00:00:26] brother, dad, and mom would have their own apartment. On Earth, there will never
[00:00:30] be war again, I dream that our family will have enough
[00:00:34] money to cure my sister. These are the dreams of
[00:00:37] our children, they must become reality.
[00:00:40] It's time to act. We are right, we
[00:00:43] can.
[00:00:46] CPRF, the last video, honestly, I want to show it right
[00:00:49] now, this is 2016.
[00:00:52] On Earth, there will never be
[00:00:56] war again, this is a direct quote. Now we will show...
[00:03:17] Thank you very much Ksenia Sokolyanskaya, my colleague,
[00:03:20] the presenter, watched these videos
[00:03:23] for us, told us and presented such a retrospective to us,
[00:03:27] thank you, thank you.
[00:03:30] We continue our special broadcast, now we will talk about candidates with
[00:03:34] military experience, this time there are almost 200 of them, far from
[00:03:38] all of them, of course, will receive parliamentary mandates, but the trend itself
[00:03:42] is obvious: a military biography is becoming one of the ways
[00:03:45] to start a political career. These are the first elections to the State Duma after
[00:03:49] the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Which of
[00:03:52] the war participants can really enter parliament, which parties
[00:03:56] are betting on them, why does the Kremlin need military personnel in the state?
[00:04:06] United Russia's list for the State Duma elections has never
[00:04:10] challenged the system of international law as
[00:04:13] it does now. Here is this
[00:04:16] list. Well, in addition to the fact that the entire top five of the federal party
[00:04:20] list is under international sanctions, Lavrov,
[00:04:23] a war correspondent of a propaganda holding,
[00:04:26] number four on the list, wanted by international
[00:04:30] court Maria Lvova Belova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights,
[00:04:33] who is accused of participating in the deportation of children
[00:04:37] from Ukraine. She, it seems, is only proud of this. We
[00:04:41] ourselves adopted a child from Mariupol, yes. We
[00:04:44] thanks to you, little one. No, 15 years old. Now I know what it means
[00:04:48] to be the mother of a child from Donbas. In one of her last interviews, Lvova-Belova
[00:04:52] admitted that Russian authorities are taking measures to
[00:04:55] prevent Ukrainian volunteers from searching for children
[00:04:59] taken from Ukraine. On social networks. Now from the Ukrainian side, a whole army
[00:05:03] is working to find children who used to live in
[00:05:06] Ukraine. They actively monitor the social networks of these
[00:05:09] children, so we started blurring their faces in photos. So as not to
[00:05:13] put the families who took them in at risk.
[00:05:16] So, on the first page of United Russia's federal list,
[00:05:20] next to Lvova Belova, Vladislav
[00:05:22] Golovin. He is only 29, and he has already managed,
[00:05:26] it turns out, at 24, to participate in the occupation of the Ukrainian
[00:05:29] city of Mariupol, during the storming of which, according to various estimates, between
[00:05:33] 8,000 and 25,000 people could have
[00:05:37] died from the actions of Russian soldiers. In Mariupol, Golovin commanded one of the
[00:05:40] platoons of the 810th brigade of marine infantry. In December
[00:05:44] 2023, this brigade admitted on its Telegram channel
[00:05:48] to using chemical
[00:05:51] Golovin. It is known that in the battles for Mariupol, he lost a leg. Already
[00:05:55] in October of that year, he received the title of Hero of Russia. The fact is
[00:05:59] that Golovin became one of the most beloved heroes of Russian propaganda
[00:06:03] among military personnel. He was remembered, among other things, for his red backpack, which
[00:06:06] stood out from the military
[00:06:10] later said that this backpack was his. his
[00:06:14] comrades-in-arms simply stole it from one of the Ukrainian
[00:06:16] houses destroyed by fighting. Why was the backpack red? The guys, well, my
[00:06:20] fighters, my comrades in arms found it,
[00:06:23] well, somewhere in one of the residential
[00:06:26] accordingly gave it to me. The press calls Vladislav Glavin
[00:06:30] Putin's favorite. We wish health, comrade
[00:06:33] supreme commander, they met several
[00:06:36] times, thank you, Golovin is literally
[00:06:39] the new Russian military-political elite, these are...
[00:06:42] people who acquired their status solely
[00:06:45] due to the war against Ukraine. In total, United Russia is nominating
[00:06:49] 76 participants of the invasion of
[00:06:51] Ukraine for the elections. Here are United Russia's candidates for Moscow,
[00:06:55] the thirty-seventh regional
[00:06:58] next to TV presenter Pyotr Tolstoy and hockey player Vladislav
[00:07:02] Tretiak, is Eduard
[00:07:05] двумя орденами за отвагу. Но за
[00:07:07] what? Novaya Gazeta Evropa
[00:07:11] пятой. спецназа ВДВ из Подмосковной Кубинки. Эта
[00:07:15] brigade participated in the occupation of Bucha, Kyiv Region, where Russian
[00:07:19] военные расстреливали людей прямо на улицах.
[00:07:22] Military personnel from the same brigade in March
[00:07:26] Ukrainians in the village of Dymer, some of whom were later taken to
[00:07:29] Russia. And Shonov is probably
[00:07:33] involved in war crimes by the Russian
[00:07:37] regional group of candidates for Dagestan. Second on the
[00:07:40] list, Inver Nabiev. In 2022, he, as part of the
[00:07:44] Fifth Separate Tank Brigade, participated in the occupation of the Chernobyl
[00:07:48] Nuclear Power Plant and the city of Pripyat,
[00:07:51] Soldiers from the unit where Nabiev served were accused of shooting civilians
[00:07:55] on the Zhytomyr highway. According to a Sunday Times investigation, they
[00:07:58] killed 27 people. The bodies of the dead were burned along with
[00:08:02] names associated with units
[00:08:06] that occupied the Kyiv
[00:08:09] Musagaleev from the 104th Airborne Assault
[00:08:12] Brigade of the Airborne Forces, number three of United Russia in the Orenburg region, and
[00:08:16] Sergey Kuzmenchuk from the airborne assault battalion
[00:08:20] of the 155th Marine
[00:08:23] regional group number one. It is interesting that in
[00:08:26] United Russia's list for the elections, there were not only those
[00:08:29] military personnel who probably killed in
[00:08:33] killing Russian
[00:08:36] twelfth place in the Moscow regional group
[00:08:39] is Alexander Filippovykh, he served as a political officer
[00:08:42] of the 1430th Motorized Rifle Regiment, created
[00:08:45] from mobilized personnel in the autumn of 2022. According to
[00:08:49] an Astro investigation, the commander of this regiment was suspected of killing
[00:08:53] his own subordinate with a body mine explosion to cover
[00:08:56] Filippovykh, according to investigators, knew about
[00:09:00] the murder and helped cover it up. Well, the
[00:09:03] electoral lists of United Russia are topped by famous and distinguished participants
[00:09:07] of the invasion of Ukraine, for example, Colonel-General
[00:09:09] Alexander Lapin, who participated in
[00:09:13] who, it is believed, was sent into retirement after the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into
[00:09:17] the Kursk region. He is running in Tatarstan. The commander
[00:09:21] of Chechen units, Adam
[00:09:23] Delimkhanov, is running in the district in
[00:09:26] Chechnya. And in occupied Donetsk, United
[00:09:30] Russia is predictably nominating Alexander
[00:09:32] Boroday, a veteran of the Russian war against Ukraine, who worked in
[00:09:36] the occupation authorities since 2014.
[00:09:40] United Russia tried to ensure that
[00:09:43] participants in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
[00:09:47] intra-party primaries, so-called
[00:09:50] veterans were given 25% of the votes, wrote
[00:09:53] Kommersant newspaper. How many percent will the Russian
[00:09:56] CEC add to them when counting the votes, will become
[00:09:59] clear from the new composition of the Russian
[00:10:02] State Duma. I am sure our warriors will
[00:10:05] not let us down, all of Russia is
[00:10:08] with them now.
[00:10:14] We continue our broadcast, Russian politician Dmitry Gudkov, former State Duma deputy,
[00:10:18] joins us. Dmitry,
[00:10:20] hello. Greetings. The Russian State Duma this
[00:10:24] time. will be elected, voting
[00:10:27] will take place for the first time after the full-scale Russian
[00:10:31] invasion of Ukraine, in this regard,
[00:10:35] it is obvious that there will be a fairly large number of
[00:10:38] people with military backgrounds in the State Duma, participants
[00:10:41] of the invasion, including. What do you think,
[00:10:45] why is this happening and what do you personally expect from this State
[00:10:48] Duma? No, I don't expect anything special, it
[00:10:52] will remain as it was, I think.
[00:11:26] 312 or 318, what's the difference, it
[00:11:30] doesn't matter at all, there will be military, of course, because
[00:11:33] grandpa likes it, all parties will try to satisfy his
[00:11:36] whims, but I don't expect too many
[00:11:40] military personnel to pass, because grandpa once liked the
[00:11:43] collective Uralvagonzavod, then there were, I think, a few
[00:11:47] wonderful, by the way,
[00:11:51] person, Valery Trapeznikov, who very quickly.
[00:12:55] Let me clarify my answer to the previous question
[00:12:58] a bit, so that it is clear, and then I will answer your question.
[00:13:02] If some kind of opposition arises in the Duma, I don't
[00:13:05] expect it from some military or from
[00:13:08] someone, but this opposition will be led by some rather
[00:13:11] well-known deputy from United Russia, well, like the conditional
[00:13:15] Makar, who in reality
[00:13:18] understands all the intra-elite alignments
[00:13:21] much better than any military person.
[00:13:25] So, if he realizes that the time has come, then the deputies
[00:13:29] will quickly start changing their tune, even those we don't expect it from.
[00:13:32] So, what groups are there?
[00:13:35] Well, let's say that there are three groups around
[00:13:38] Putin: one is his friends,
[00:13:42] let's say, well, those who
[00:13:45] from childhood or from the Ozero cooperative, it doesn't matter, right, that
[00:13:49] is, entrepreneurs, like the conditional Rotenbergs, and so on. The second
[00:13:52] group is his colleagues, like
[00:13:55] Chemezov, Sechin, and so on. And the third is
[00:13:58] the so-called liberals, these
[00:14:00] finance. So, these are the three
[00:14:04] key forces. All the others, let's
[00:14:08] say, well, the security forces are his colleagues, that's the second group, and
[00:14:11] even among them, I don't think there will be agreement at the moment of a split,
[00:14:15] most likely the unification will happen around some figure, like
[00:14:19] Mishustin or Sobyanin, and
[00:14:22] to him, businessmen, oligarchs, and
[00:14:25] liberals, civilians like Kiriyenko, who are dissatisfied,
[00:14:28] well, that is, the conditional management class, who are dissatisfied with the dominance
[00:14:32] of the security forces, will definitely join him. Well, and
[00:14:36] some part of the special services. If such a split occurs,
[00:14:39] then it will happen, let's say,
[00:14:43] the division will occur into two parts, into
[00:14:46] hardliners and softliners. Softliners are those
[00:14:49] who will want to end
[00:14:52] the war and reintegrate into the world
[00:14:55] economy, understanding that without economic
[00:14:59] ties with developed countries, there are no
[00:15:03] So, but
[00:15:05] a split, so that viewers understand what
[00:15:09] it is, it's not when Sechin and Chemezov
[00:15:12] each other somewhere,
[00:15:15] like spiders in a jar or bulldogs under
[00:15:19] the rug. A split in the elites is when one
[00:15:22] part of the elites uses the public to win over another.
[00:15:37] That's when, then it's a real split in the elites. Well,
[00:15:41] for example, let's take some Spain,
[00:15:44] where even former hardliners became softliners and
[00:15:48] even later voted for all
[00:15:51] the reforms, against which they had spoken out just a
[00:15:55] few months before. Well, if such
[00:15:59] a split happens, then an opposition will appear in the Duma,
[00:16:03] but for some individual deputy to go against the whole system,
[00:16:06] no.
[00:16:38] I don't think they'll let him. Well, I believe that some
[00:16:41] single-mandate candidate could win if they counted honestly, because now
[00:16:45] essentially the elections with Yabloko would be
[00:16:49] about one thing: are you for war or against war? And it would be absolutely
[00:16:52] obvious, like a referendum, yes, well, yes, yes, and
[00:16:56] the anti-war position, it doesn't matter if it's with
[00:16:58] Yabloko, with a pear, or with someone else, right, if it was
[00:17:02] a more or less adequate anti-war party, there's no other besides Yabloko,
[00:17:05] so suddenly... Yabloko, without key
[00:17:09] leaders, quickly starts gaining popularity, we saw it in one
[00:17:12] week, because such a position is generally
[00:17:15] popular in society. So, of course,
[00:17:19] Yabloko would 100% fight United Russia for first
[00:17:23] place in fair elections, I emphasize. But since
[00:17:26] they didn't even let Yabloko into the unfair
[00:17:29] scared, no, they regulate
[00:17:32] everything. They saw risks in it that they didn't need. Why
[00:17:36] do you need... 6 weeks of legal campaigning
[00:17:39] against the war, against Putin, against,
[00:17:42] as it were, foreign policy? They don't need it.
[00:17:45] They understood and removed Yabloko in time,
[00:17:49] not even letting them conduct a more or less sensible
[00:17:51] campaign. The twentieth is coming,
[00:17:55] the CEC declares the elections valid, the CEC
[00:17:58] announces the winners, and so
[00:18:01] on and so forth, all these procedures are followed. What do you
[00:18:04] think will happen after the twentieth? It's clear that... it's a conditional
[00:18:08] date, all this is already on track, but nevertheless,
[00:18:11] what will be the trigger after the 20th? What in Russia
[00:18:14] will be different now?
[00:18:17] In my
[00:18:21] opinion, Putin will take the path of escalation, there will be
[00:18:25] some undeclared mobilization, most likely in
[00:18:28] the regions, not in large cities, when, for example,
[00:18:31] the security forces and military will act approximately
[00:18:35] like this. Well, someone who
[00:18:39] has somehow misbehaved before the state, drank alcoholic beverages
[00:18:43] or is a debtor or has been brought to administrative
[00:18:46] responsibility for some reason, such people will be quickly caught,
[00:18:50] so we need to warn
[00:18:53] people, of course, and I do not rule out that
[00:18:57] there will be some provocation in one of the countries
[00:19:01] of the European Union. I don't think it was for nothing that the head of the CIA came, he probably
[00:19:04] warned about some retaliatory actions.
[00:19:46] I don't think they will close the border for everyone, because
[00:19:50] it is important for the ruling class that their children
[00:19:54] can travel somewhere, but the border is closed for
[00:19:58] conscripts, it is simply closed, you come with
[00:20:00] a passport, the passport is scanned, the system gives a
[00:20:04] red flag that you are drafted, you are not allowed to leave anywhere. This
[00:20:08] is absolutely enough for that, so that,
[00:20:12] so to speak, those who should not leave, do not leave, mm-hmm.
[00:20:16] As for prices, yes, I think they will release them, because
[00:20:19] the fuel crisis will continue, now
[00:20:23] approximately somewhere on the market there was a
[00:20:27] loss of a quarter,
[00:20:31] meaning capacity, somewhere minus 25% in the
[00:20:34] gasoline market, and in order to...
[00:20:37] solve the problem, well, it has long been calculated, if you
[00:20:41] increase the price,
[00:20:43] by 50%, I think, then your demand falls by
[00:20:46] if you increase by...
[00:22:20] now they are controlled even more strictly by the presidential
[00:22:23] administration and law enforcement agencies, that is, all of Putin's parties, in
[00:22:27] your opinion, what should
[00:22:31] to vote, regardless of whether it's for Yabloko or not, but to vote
[00:22:34] end,
[00:22:37] those who truly want a different development for
[00:22:41] Russia, in your opinion, what is left for this person
[00:22:44] to do now? Well, if there are
[00:22:48] Yabloko candidates in single-mandate districts, then... obviously, supporting these
[00:22:51] candidates is a perfectly normal strategy, but do not
[00:22:55] expect them to win, because most likely
[00:22:58] they won't be allowed anywhere. So, if there are no such candidates,
[00:23:02] and you only have a list of all of Putin's
[00:23:05] pro-war parties, then it's better not to participate, right,
[00:23:09] it's better not to participate in
[00:23:12] the lottery, but to come, take
[00:23:15] the ballot, spoil it, make it invalid, come out at the same
[00:23:18] time, that is, just as... Dmitry, thank
[00:23:59] you very much for this conversation. Russian politician, former State Duma deputy, Dmitry
[00:24:03] Gudkov was a guest of the broadcast. Thank
[00:24:05] you.
[00:24:08] And what do Russians themselves think about these elections? Do they consider
[00:24:11] voting important, do they intend to go to the polls, and do they
[00:24:14] believe that their vote can influence anything? The publication
[00:24:18] "Sotevision" asked about this.
[00:24:50] I don't understand, that is, politics is already so incomprehensible
[00:24:54] that ordinary people simply don't understand
[00:24:57] it. What kind of party is United Russia now? Let it
[00:25:01] remain, it won't
[00:25:05] that's it. Well, just not for United Russia, I
[00:25:08] generally don't go to elections,
[00:25:12] why not, I don't see the point, and I don't even
[00:25:15] have. But do you believe in elections, that they can do something?
[00:25:30] The outgoing Duma began this convocation even before the full-scale
[00:25:33] Russian invasion of Ukraine, and ended as a wartime
[00:25:37] parliament, with a record number
[00:25:40] prohibitions, repressive
[00:25:43] formalization of war. What exactly changed in the eighth convocation
[00:25:47] legacy...
[00:26:02] The Duma became the first wartime convocation and a champion of
[00:26:06] legislative production, with a result of
[00:26:09] 2980 federal laws,
[00:26:12] an absolute maximum among all convocations. Perhaps this is no longer
[00:26:16] a runaway printer, but a full-fledged printing
[00:26:19] press. The special military operation, defense, and security became the central
[00:26:22] topic of the eighth convocation; it was this Duma
[00:26:26] on February 15, 2022,
[00:26:29] that appealed to Vladimir Putin
[00:26:45] after which the Federation Council authorized the use of Russian
[00:26:49] armed forces outside the country. We will strive for the demilitarization
[00:26:53] and denazification
[00:26:56] announced the start of a special military operation, which has been going on for the fifth
[00:27:00] year and which Russians are not allowed
[00:27:03] which they can be fined or even
[00:27:05] посадить,
[00:27:09] Citizens should also be obliged to the Duma, which in
[00:27:13] March 2022 adopted a package of amendments
[00:27:16] establishing responsibility for so-called military fakes,
[00:27:19] discrediting the army and
[00:27:21] authorities.
[00:27:25] Deputies prescribed social guarantees and payments, benefits for
[00:27:28] military personnel, veterans, and members
[00:27:32] related to military service, in particular, they made conscription
[00:27:36] the boundaries of the conscription age,
[00:27:39] introduced a unified register of military accounting, various
[00:27:43] sanctions for draft dodgers, allowed prisoners to exchange
[00:27:46] prison for war and generally go to the front from under investigation
[00:27:49] without waiting for a trial. Thanks to the new laws, one can face trial, for example, for voluntarily
[00:27:53] penalties for disobeying
[00:27:56] orders and for unauthorized abandonment of a unit
[00:28:00] have been significantly tightened. The terms for
[00:28:03] sabotage and treason have increased, and now criminal liability for sabotage
[00:28:07] begins at 14
[00:28:10] be recognized as almost anything, from photographing gravestones to
[00:28:14] In general, deputies spent
[00:28:17] a lot of time fighting enemies, external and internal,
[00:28:21] they adopted laws on numerous restrictions for
[00:28:24] foreign agents, opposition- minded relocants, and
[00:28:27] expanded the powers of the FSB, which, in
[00:28:30] particular, was allowed to create.
[00:28:55] In the fall of 2022, deputies unanimously
[00:28:58] ratified treaties on the accession of the so-called
[00:29:05] Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to Russia, which required
[00:29:08] a large-scale restructuring of the legal space. Due to the war
[00:29:12] and sanctions, the legislative activity of the eighth convocation of the Duma sometimes
[00:29:15] resembled crisis management. Laws were often
[00:29:18] adopted in packages and in an expedited manner, and
[00:29:22] the quality of legal texts declined. Migration
[00:29:25] issues became an independent political priority of this
[00:29:28] convocation of the Duma, especially in the last session of the convocation. Massive
[00:29:31] tightening of migration rules began in
[00:29:35] at the Moscow Crocus
[00:29:37] City Hall.
[00:29:42] Since then, the State Duma has adopted at least thirty laws related to
[00:29:46] tightening control over the entry, stay,
[00:29:49] and labor activities
[00:29:52] include separate amendments. Social policy in the eighth
[00:29:55] convocation was increasingly linked to supporting families, demographics, and
[00:29:59] assisting participants in the so-called special military operation. Deputies
[00:30:03] extended the maternity capital program until 2030 and
[00:30:06] at the same time adopted laws prohibiting child-free ideology, prohibiting
[00:30:10] LGBT propaganda, prohibiting
[00:30:13] the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender
[00:30:17] Now, under the pretext of fighting
[00:30:20] fraudsters, WhatsApp and Telegram are being blocked in Russia, but fraudsters
[00:30:24] have mastered VKontakte, which is a national messenger for
[00:30:28] its widespread voluntary-compulsory implementation,
[00:30:30] for which, by the way, the State Duma adopted
[00:30:33] many amendments to various laws. Summing up the work of
[00:30:36] the eighth convocation of the State Duma, its speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called
[00:30:40] reproaches that it is aimed at prohibitions
[00:30:43] inappropriate, because deputies adopt laws exclusively at the
[00:30:46] request of citizens, and those very prohibitive measures, according
[00:30:50] to Volodin, are actually protection for
[00:30:53] the younger generation and adults who have gone astray.
[00:30:56] astray.