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[00:00:27] The largest attack on Moscow with cruise missiles, drones. The Moscow
[00:00:30] oil refinery and a number of other facilities were again targeted.
[00:00:34] The capital's authorities call the attack an attempt to disrupt the elections. Today in Russia, in
[00:00:38] the occupied territories of Ukraine, is the last day of voting in the parliamentary
[00:00:41] elections. You are watching the news on the Current Time TV channel.
[00:00:45] Today is Sunday, September 20th. My name is Timofey Rozhansky.
[00:00:49] Hello. Let's move on to the main topic of the day
[00:00:51] .
[00:01:03] Oh my god, they added more action,
[00:01:06] to make it hotter. I don't know where
[00:01:09] to look.
[00:01:13] Oh, come on.
[00:01:17] Oh, come on, it fell into the next
[00:01:19] yard.
[00:01:23] They attacked Moscow and the Moscow region. The Moscow
[00:01:26] oil refinery in Kapotnya is burning again. Earlier, in mid-June, strikes
[00:01:30] put it out of action. Now it was under repair.
[00:01:33] Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin admitted the hit on the plant and said that air defense forces
[00:01:37] shot down more than 1,600 drones overnight.
[00:01:40] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on the oil refinery,
[00:01:43] clarifying that in addition to drones, Ukrainian-made
[00:01:47] cruise missiles were used for the strikes.
[00:01:50] In Kotelniki, near Moscow, during the attack, one of the drones hit
[00:01:53] a multi-story residential complex in the Novye
[00:01:56] Kotelniki microdistrict.
[00:02:08] The fire engulfed apartments on three floors. According to the head of the Moscow region, two men
[00:02:11] were injured in the attack and refused hospitalization. Now
[00:02:15] on your screens are images of the consequences of this strike, taken this
[00:02:19] morning.
[00:02:22] Another target of the attack was the Skvadsk complex in Sofyino, near Moscow
[00:02:25] .
[00:02:34] In short, a real buzz,
[00:02:37] look, it's quite
[00:02:40] large-scale.
[00:02:42] According to the Telegram channel Astro, the Modern Warehouse Technologies complex
[00:02:46] was hit. The publication also notes that a Pantsir anti-aircraft complex
[00:02:49] is located 500 meters from it. The governor of the
[00:02:53] Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, reported that the most serious consequences
[00:02:56] were recorded in the Ramenskoye district and mentioned a fire at the... complex
[00:03:00] there in Sofina. One of the drones hit a three-story residential building. One
[00:03:04] person died. In total, according to Vorobyov, there are two dead in the Moscow region.
[00:03:08] Medical assistance was needed by twenty residents, 15 of whom
[00:03:11] were taken to the hospital. Literally 20 steps from
[00:03:15] the entrance, an explosion immediately, glass flew,
[00:03:19] shouts, screams started. I turned around, that's it, the doors at
[00:03:22] the entrance were torn off, everywhere everything was junk, this
[00:03:25] was lying around.
[00:03:29] In Russia today, voting in the State Duma elections is concluding. In most
[00:03:32] regions, it lasted 3 days. Polling stations will close at
[00:03:35] 8:00 PM local time. In the eastern regions of Russia, they have already
[00:03:39] closed.
[00:03:41] Our correspondent Dmitry Novikov is monitoring the voting process in Russia. Dima,
[00:03:45] hello. What is known at this minute? Did the attack on Moscow affect the voting
[00:03:48] process?
[00:03:52] Timofey, hello. Russian authorities state that the drone attack
[00:03:56] on Moscow did not affect what was happening at the polling
[00:04:00] stations. In the commissions, their work, as the Central Election Commission
[00:04:03] says, began in the morning according to schedule and then proceeded in
[00:04:06] normal mode. However, in the afternoon throughout Moscow, at polling
[00:04:10] stations, due to a malfunction, they stopped issuing paper ballots
[00:04:13] and election commission employees began to offer
[00:04:16] voters to vote online. By the way, yesterday the Central Election Commission
[00:04:20] reported a very powerful and intense cyberattack on
[00:04:24] the Moscow system of remote electronic
[00:04:26] voting. This attack, as was claimed, was going on in...
[00:04:37] As for violations, the independent
[00:04:39] project
[00:04:43] Elections 2026, "We Observe Together," collected
[00:04:46] more than two hundred reports of
[00:04:49] violations from thirty-four regions just yesterday. These include illegal
[00:04:52] removal of observers and commission members, threats, refusals of
[00:04:56] documents, filming of... torn safes, night visits to
[00:05:00] ballots. Representatives of the Yabloko and CPRF parties also
[00:05:03] report mass denial of access
[00:05:07] to observers. Of all
[00:05:09] the violations discovered by independent observers at...
[00:05:25] This was noticed by observers from the CPRF, New People, and A Just Russia parties. Upon seeing this, they immediately raised the alarm,
[00:05:28] publishing as evidence photos of the safe with
[00:05:31] ballots with traces of fingerprint powder,
[00:05:35] and began to wait for what would
[00:05:37] happen next.
[00:05:40] Absolute lawlessness.
[00:05:43] There are also a lot of police
[00:05:44] standing there.
[00:05:49] Yes, and there is a clear fact of a violation, which
[00:05:53] threatens with a specific criminal case.
[00:05:56] A few hours later, the chairman of the local
[00:05:59] election commission stated that the violators, members of the commission,
[00:06:02] were removed from working at the elections. The head of
[00:06:06] the CEC, Panfilova, while acknowledging violations in Yakutsk,
[00:06:10] addressed the members of the election commission. What
[00:06:13] are you doing? Observers everywhere, round-the-clock video broadcasts from
[00:06:16] the polling stations, everything is visible.
[00:06:20] You either have no brains at all, or I don't know, or
[00:06:24] complete irresponsibility, brainlessness, I would say
[00:06:26] so. By the way, the voting process is being monitored by selected
[00:06:29] international observers from countries that Russia classifies as
[00:06:33] "friendly countries." These observers
[00:06:36] have not yet expressed any
[00:06:39] comments. Dima, do you have an understanding of how Russians are
[00:06:43] voting?
[00:06:44] Journalists from Sota Vision
[00:06:49] interviewed residents of Perm, Yekaterinburg, and Petrozavodsk
[00:06:52] about how they vote in the
[00:06:55] elections and whether they trust the vote count. Let's
[00:06:58] see. At least at the end of the first day
[00:07:01] of the elections, I already learned a lot, that there are
[00:07:04] falsifications everywhere,
[00:07:07] ballots are thrown in everywhere, I think that everything will be decided, but I will go
[00:07:11] to vote, I will. Well, it's
[00:07:14] worth trying. No, it should stay that way. Honestly,
[00:07:18] I'm
[00:07:21] for Putin, honestly, still, because
[00:07:24] he has done so
[00:07:26] much.
[00:07:30] If I go to vote, I will vote for him again. There will be
[00:07:33] elections to the State Duma, that is, deputies of parties.
[00:07:36] Oh, I don't get involved in politics at all, I don't
[00:07:40] know, honestly. Do you believe?
[00:08:28] By the way, the President of Russia did not go to the polling station and did not publicly
[00:08:31] throw a ballot into the ballot box in the presence of video cameras. As reported from
[00:08:35] the Kremlin, Putin cast his vote for candidates for
[00:08:38] the State Duma, while in the room, sitting at a computer.
[00:08:42] Already on the first day of voting, September 18.
[00:08:45] The day before, he addressed voters, stating that every
[00:08:49] voter's voice matters. End of quote.
[00:08:52] Independent journalists note that this is Putin's sixth remote
[00:08:56] voting. But the leader of the Yabloko party, who was barred
[00:09:00] from participating in the elections, Nikolai Rybakov, came as
[00:09:03] a voter to one of the polling stations in
[00:09:06] St. Petersburg. In an interview with journalists, he said:
[00:09:10] "We understand what situation."
[00:09:12] we are working in, what kind of elections we are participating in.
[00:09:15] It is reported that Rybakov wrote on the ballots "Yabloko for
[00:09:19] peace, for freedom Yabloko, for life without
[00:09:22] fear, and Yabloko for a ceasefire agreement," after
[00:09:25] which he cast these ballots into
[00:09:29] the ballot box. Timofey. Dima, thank you very much, Dmitry Novikov
[00:09:33] is following the elections in
[00:09:34] Russia.
[00:09:38] In Russia, in some cities of the world, at 12 o'clock at polling stations,
[00:09:42] the action "Noon for Peaceful Russia" took place. It was proposed by
[00:09:45] the "Peaceful Russia" party, founded by Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin and his associates in
[00:09:49] emigration, and a number of other opposition figures. According to
[00:09:53] their plan, this was a safe way, including for people in
[00:09:56] Russia, to express protest against the war. The action was not massive,
[00:10:00] but at noon, queues appeared at several polling stations in Moscow,
[00:10:04] St. Petersburg, as well as in Berlin, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Prague, Paris and
[00:10:07] Vilnius. Dozens of people gathered at the Russian embassies. Our
[00:10:11] correspondents spoke to some of them. It seems to
[00:10:14] me that it's meaningless to do anything at these elections or try to win in any way, in my opinion, but I don't
[00:10:18] like that the state is taking away my last right, including
[00:10:22] demotivating me, for example, not to go to the polling station.
[00:11:59] As for the polling stations in the occupied territories, people with
[00:12:03] automatic weapons also observed the process there. The legally elected mayor of Energodar, Zaporizhzhia region, Dmitry
[00:12:06] Orlov, who had to leave the city after the occupation in 2022,
[00:12:09] believes that Moscow needs to show that the occupied territories are already
[00:12:13] integrated into the Russian political system. Russian
[00:12:16] authorities, meanwhile, announced a record turnout by Saturday
[00:12:20] evening in the occupied part of the Donetsk region at...
[00:12:23] I'm waiting for peace,
[00:12:55] which I hope will happen
[00:12:58] very, very soon here in
[00:13:01] Sevastopol. More than anything, I'm waiting for
[00:13:04] it. The EU called the holding of Russian elections in the occupied
[00:13:08] territories of Ukraine a violation of international law. Kyiv
[00:13:12] stated that the voting organized by Russia under the muzzles of automatic weapons does not change
[00:13:15] the internationally recognized status of these territories as Ukrainian and called on
[00:13:19] foreign states, as well as international organizations, not to recognize its
[00:13:23] results.
[00:13:32] In the Kyiv region, four people were killed as a result of Russian strikes, including three children. According to the head of
[00:13:36] the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, the region has been under drone
[00:13:39] attack for more than a day. Skachenko reported that a mother and two children died in the Fastiv district,
[00:13:43] and in the Vyshhorod district, another girl died in the hospital
[00:13:47] from her injuries. In the Zaporizhzhia region, an elderly
[00:13:50] woman died as a result of a drone strike. The
[00:13:53] railway in the region was attacked. No casualties were reported.
[00:13:57] The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed strikes
[00:14:00] on Ukraine, claiming that they attacked the Firepoint company's warehouse in the Kyiv
[00:14:04] region. Russian military also reported a strike on a dry cargo ship in
[00:14:08] the port of Odesa, at the Nova Poshta company's warehouse. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
[00:14:11] last night Russian troops launched 138
[00:14:15] drones into the country, 101 of which were shot down.
[00:14:19] The commander of the third army corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Andriy Biletsky, reported that
[00:14:23] Ukrainian military personnel liberated three settlements in the Donetsk region, in
[00:14:27] the area of the city of Lyman, where the Ukrainian counter-offensive operation
[00:14:30] Vivaldi is taking place. Biletsky's words are confirmed by analysts from the
[00:14:34] Deep State project. According to their map, the Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced in the area
[00:14:37] of the cities of Lyman and Sviatohirsk. Over the past few weeks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
[00:14:41] have reported a counter-offensive in the Lyman area. According to Biletsky, within
[00:14:45] the framework of Operation Vivaldi, the Ukrainian military has already regained control of
[00:14:48] 125 km of territory. Earlier, Biletsky
[00:14:52] published a video from the center of Sviatohirsk, which before that, Russia and personally
[00:14:55] Vladimir Putin had already declared
[00:14:57] captured.
[00:15:00] These were the main news up to this hour. Timofey
[00:15:04] Rozhansky was with you. I wish you peaceful weekends and a
[00:15:07] good end to this week. Tune in to
[00:15:10] the morning program on Monday. See you.
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[00:17:31] This changes the attitude towards the head
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[00:17:44] This is very, very
[00:17:46] scary, because I think we can't forget about this. This is a pain that is always with
[00:17:50] you. I understand how people live
[00:17:54] there today. What
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[00:19:17] Events that change the world, stories that
[00:19:21] cannot be missed, we analyze with you live, face to face with the event.
[00:19:38] Iran, if historically they were mainly interested in missile and nuclear
[00:19:41] technologies, then, judging by recent years, they are interested in what
[00:19:45] is related to the realities of modern warfare, for example, satellite navigation, the same
[00:19:49] GPS spoofing, artificial intelligence, and so on. That is, yes, we know well
[00:19:52] that Iran provided Russia with
[00:19:55] the design of Shaheds, which Russia then supplemented. There were
[00:19:59] originally Iranian Shaheds, apparently with Iranian artificial intelligence systems, but
[00:20:02] it is clear that Russia, which uses them daily to bomb, among other things,
[00:20:06] Ukrainian civilians. Yes, and some of them have some elements of artificial intelligence, it
[00:20:10] gains
[00:20:13] expertise in this area, and then through universities, through
[00:20:16] some means it can share it with Iran. Iran has
[00:20:19] its own military industry that is quite strong compared to
[00:20:22] many other countries, not wealthy ones.
[00:20:26] It is mainly based on either purchasing technologies or on
[00:20:29] reverse engineering, that is, a North Korean
[00:20:33] missile, which in turn is a copy of a Soviet missile, is taken. Then either
[00:20:37] technical documentation is bought or obtained in some other way, and then either
[00:20:41] reverse engineering is done, and then their own missiles are created. But in order
[00:20:44] to then support this industry, to create new variants, there must also be
[00:20:48] a corresponding scientific school. Why? Russia is now capable of creating new weapons even in conditions
[00:20:52] of sanctions, because in Russia there is not just production, but there are scientific
[00:20:55] schools, there are specialists who know how to do this for generations.
[00:20:59] This is actually a lot of things, that is, it costs a lot, few people have it, and
[00:21:03] Iran strives to have such scientific schools, of course, they cannot buy everything forever.
[00:21:07] Recently, as the Financial Times reported, they received from Russia
[00:21:10] a method
[00:21:14] for creating engines for hypersonic
[00:21:17] missiles, but it's not enough to just get
[00:21:20] the blueprints to set up production, you need specialists who will
[00:21:23] support all this. And in order to understand how this is arranged in the context of Iran and
[00:21:27] Russia, we started looking for what Iranian students or
[00:21:30] graduate students or researchers come to Russian universities that are associated with the defense
[00:21:34] industry, this is, for example, MAI or Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and what
[00:21:38] they do there, this can be determined by scientific papers, because
[00:21:41] usually, when a student or graduate student comes, especially a graduate student, he publishes joint
[00:21:45] scientific papers with his supervisor, with other graduate students, with
[00:21:48] other researchers from the laboratory, then returns to Iran and continues to publish
[00:21:52] already, perhaps with Iranian researchers, and so on. We were interested in cases
[00:21:55] when the topic clearly concerned some military
[00:21:59] things, and especially when people who returned to Iran
[00:22:02] worked in universities that are directly connected, say, with the Iranian Ministry of Defense or
[00:22:06] the IRGC, such exist, they are well known. And we
[00:22:09] really found, just from open publications, several, I would call
[00:22:13] them clusters, several clusters related to
[00:22:16] certain scientific topics that most likely have... well, that is,
[00:22:20] which can be accurately described as dual-use technologies. The fact is that
[00:22:24] Iran does not produce any civilian aircraft gas turbine engines
[00:22:27] at all. But it produces quite a lot of gas turbine engines
[00:22:31] for cruise missiles. And they produce another engine for their own
[00:22:34] fighters. That is, they do not have a civilian industry in this area, so any
[00:22:38] research related to GTDs, as they call them in short, are certainly
[00:22:42] military. And we found a whole group of Iranian students, graduate students,
[00:22:45] who regularly in recent years studied or were associated with
[00:22:49] one of the departments of MAI and also with several Russian
[00:22:52] researchers. This is one of the examples. Other examples are,
[00:22:55] well, for example, the nuclear field, which of course interests everyone. In fact, no one has
[00:22:59] proof that Russia in any way helps Iran create nuclear weapons.
[00:23:03] This certainly could not be found in open publications, but
[00:23:07] there are so-called gas centrifuges, which are used for
[00:23:10] uranium enrichment. It is known that the IAEA was very concerned that
[00:23:14] Iran was able to enrich uranium to 60%, this is not yet
[00:23:17] weapons grade, but this is a level that is... too high to
[00:23:20] be used as fuel for a nuclear power plant, so this
[00:23:24] raised great suspicions, and as is known,
[00:23:28] Israel and the USA during the current war have made every
[00:23:31] effort to destroy these centrifuges in Iran.
[00:23:34] They were also part of the nuclear deal 10
[00:23:37] years ago. So, we found that yes, Iranian researchers
[00:23:41] indeed actively cooperate with several Russian
[00:23:44] institutes, universities precisely in the field of gas
[00:23:48] centrifuges. Again, this may be purely... this is civilian work from the point
[00:23:52] of view of Russian researchers, it is certainly civilian work, but it has
[00:23:55] an obvious dual purpose. For many years, Iranian
[00:23:59] researchers traveled to Samara, then called
[00:24:02] Samara Aerospace University named after Korolev, where
[00:24:06] a strong, strangely enough, Danish researcher, Kaibor, worked. He died in
[00:24:10] 2017. He was an invited professor, and Iranians studied with him. Then they
[00:24:13] returned to Iran and then wrote a large number of papers on
[00:24:16] GPS spoofing, which is when the GPS signal is substituted to
[00:24:20] confuse enemy drones or planes or
[00:24:24] ships, which most likely had applied
[00:24:28] significance, because some of these works were in military journals or were
[00:24:31] also connected with quasi-military universities. It is known that Iran has quite
[00:24:35] strong expertise in this area,
[00:24:38] and well, world-class expertise that is recognized by the global
[00:24:42] expert community, and they actively apply GPS
[00:24:45] spoofing during the current war, they applied it before.
[00:24:49] At Bauman Moscow State Technical University, there is very
[00:24:53] good expertise in creating
[00:24:55] artificial intelligence systems for various drones, not only
[00:24:58] flying, but also floating
[00:25:01] and ground-based. They at least advise the Russian military in this
[00:25:04] area, but Bauman Moscow State Technical University simply has base departments, many people work there
[00:25:07] who also work in the Russian defense industry, and we also
[00:25:11] found that in one of the departments that specifically deals with artificial
[00:25:14] intelligence, there are quite a large number of Iranian students, and
[00:25:18] some of them, one of them gave an interview to the Iranian Sputnik, where
[00:25:21] he said that he came to study because relations
[00:25:25] between Iran and Russia are good, he wouldn't go to the West, and as for
[00:25:29] the sanctions against us, that is, against Iran, they are unfair. Specifically, his
[00:25:33] work, we cannot prove that it is related to the military, but it is clear that
[00:25:37] the exchange itself, the very basis of such scientific exchange in this area,
[00:25:40] it trains personnel who will then help the Iranian
[00:25:44] industry develop in this
[00:25:46] direction.
[00:25:56] There was grass here, everything is covered with sand
[00:25:59] from above. Last year there was water.
[00:26:33] It just hit the
[00:26:37] keel.
[00:26:41] Doesn't that uncle understand that he's throwing rockets here?
[00:26:45] People are dying here.
[00:26:48] I said, I don't know, she was very scared when it arrived and in the basement.
[00:27:03] Does your dog count steps to meet the daily
[00:27:06] norm?
[00:27:08] Does your hamster plan every meal?
[00:27:12] Or perhaps your cat wears a sleep tracker to improve its quality of
[00:27:16] life? Well, some people do that, but why?
[00:27:20] Our correspondent Suzette Kleyne decided to investigate what
[00:27:23] she managed to find out right now in the program "In Great
[00:27:27] Shape."
[00:28:03] There is no such thing, it's excluded.
[00:28:06] Do you have strong evidence that Putin directly
[00:28:10] ordered this, because what you said is
[00:28:13] the most direct accusation against the Russian leader in all
[00:28:17] history.
[00:28:22] What you managed to do here is absolutely incredible, I
[00:28:25] mean the foundation you created here in Germany, the Boris Nemtsov
[00:28:29] Foundation.
[00:28:33] All graduates, my great inspiration and my
[00:28:36] motivation to do what I do for 8
[00:28:39] years.
[00:28:41] I always set a new goal for myself and try to achieve it. This is my
[00:28:45] life.
[00:28:45] To be a modern Buddhist
[00:28:54] means not to look like a sectarian, even in
[00:28:57] the harshest times of repression, connection...
[00:29:00] Along the narrow, broken road, coal is transported from the quarry
[00:29:22] around the clock, convoys of trucks, miles of
[00:29:25] dust.
[00:29:26] It was not easy for me to talk about
[00:30:03] this, the worst thing is that it was
[00:30:06] a suicide.
[00:30:08] We were all mama's girls.
[00:30:13] Here, roughly speaking, we have.
[00:30:30] здесь, грубо говоря, у нас.