CURRENTTIME — broadcast 20261012 173000 UTC 432 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. [00:00:00] points of attraction for tourists from large megacities, in Moscow, [00:00:03] for example, it is very difficult to go out now using a navigator or to [00:00:07] run around somewhere. Here, everything is caught in a GPS track, nothing is jammed yet. The beaver [00:00:10] dam, the tower on Mount Ryzhokha, beautiful [00:00:13] lakes. We have a protected zone [00:00:17] where tourists are strictly [00:00:20] forbidden to be. We have a specially protected [00:00:23] zone, where the [00:00:26] presence of tourists is not assumed. [00:00:30] It is worth turning from prohibitions and barriers to [00:00:32] the documents of the Valdai Park, and there is a dark [00:00:36] forest there. In the specially protected zone, [00:00:39] construction is allowed. [00:00:42] It can be seen near the lake from a satellite and [00:00:46] with the naked eye. [00:00:50] Here is the cement plant. Well, there's probably a bunker there, [00:00:54] what kind, well, like a national park president, [00:00:57] a cement plant on the bank, what is it doing there? [00:01:31] Technically, the land is registered to the structures [00:01:34] of the FSO, to the structures of Yuri Kovalchuk. Yuri [00:01:37] Kovalchuk finances part of Vladimir Putin's life, if I may say so. [00:01:41] Through his structure, everything related to [00:01:45] the sale of children, the sale of the family in [00:01:49] the broad sense of the word, is financed. In fact, the same structures, [00:01:52] the FSO and Kovalchuk, are engaged in construction, and [00:01:56] for the last 5-10 years, this has been especially active. [00:02:00] Tom, [00:02:03] this is about the lake, why is the second [00:02:06] reach closed? I want to explain from the point of view [00:02:10] that we had a number of criteria according to which our [00:02:13] lake became closed. You're wearing headphones, go ahead, [00:02:17] speak. And this is not related to [00:02:21] the residence, the lake, we just have part [00:02:24] of the lake now belonging to a specially protected [00:02:27] zone. [00:02:30] Strangely enough, but it's true, the so-called second [00:02:33] reach, was very heavily [00:02:36] silted up. In order to [00:02:39] revive the water resources, [00:02:42] we, of course, need, well, if I say such a word correctly, [00:02:45] calm water, so that no one [00:02:48] touches it. It seems that in this special operation, everything is not [00:02:52] so unambiguous, because formally [00:02:55] to close for visiting almost half [00:02:59] of one of... [00:04:02] No, this is a military secret, no one knows this, it's all at the last [00:04:06] moment, if everyone knew when, what and so [00:04:10] on, [00:04:13] come on, guys, help, [00:04:17] on this boat there is a device for water quality control, [00:04:21] and there is our meteorological [00:04:24] radar [00:04:25] and [00:04:29] not ours, yes. [00:04:36] Vladimir Putin, somewhere at the end of July, beginning of August, makes [00:04:39] a voyage on Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. Accordingly, [00:04:43] the family, that is, Alina Kabaeva and their two sons [00:04:47] Ivan and Vladimir. Sometimes their father joins them for a couple of days. [00:04:50] They are on a large yacht, and the service [00:04:53] staff is on the smallest yacht, which follows them, and [00:04:57] they all gather, well, that is... [00:05:12] the president's tear, when the radiometer returns to [00:05:16] the pier at [00:05:17] the institute, [00:05:20] oh, let's take it out of the trash, so that it's not in [00:05:23] the dump, the data will be processed [00:05:27] by the laboratory computer, no special incidents - I'm sure [00:05:30] the chief Marunich, will not [00:05:33] be found either. Things for the symbol of Russia, as for the whole [00:05:37] country, are quite livable, but diseases accumulate [00:05:40] for years. [00:05:43] "Lake Boldai was one of the cleanest lakes in the whole [00:05:46] northwest, but it has deviated from the background [00:05:50] quality it had 50 years [00:05:53] ago. The fault for this lies not with the government, which we all [00:05:57] love to scold, but predominantly with the residents themselves. [00:06:00] The lake was in a rather [00:06:02] catastrophic state when multi-apartment [00:06:06] construction began, plus sewage [00:06:10] networks began to hang, practically without..." honestly, they started dumping into [00:06:14] the lake, and dying off, all this turns into these [00:06:18] silty deposits, but simply removing them, after some time [00:06:22] it will be again, this liquid neighborhood, here is almost [00:06:25] the only connection of the head [00:06:28] of state and his citizens, neither [00:06:31] the FSO nor the air defense can [00:06:34] break it, I would not risk it, maybe [00:06:38] E. coli or something [00:06:40] else will get in. [00:06:45] There is such a saying that every swamp was once [00:06:48] a lake, so I would not want this to apply to our [00:06:51] wonderful lake, to fantasize what will happen to me in [00:06:54] 15 years, if the school is still standing, then I will continue to work [00:06:58] at school, and if the school is no longer there, honestly, [00:07:02] then I don't know what I will do. Lugansk, [00:07:05] Donetsk, Mariupol, everything is transforming, here I [00:07:08] am driving through the LPR, DPR, but in [00:07:11] each one... [00:07:42] fate is probably [00:07:46] written [00:07:50] like this, [00:08:01] you come out of this forest and you see this [00:08:04] hulk, [00:08:09] our station in all, so to speak, information... [00:08:12] publics was called a dangerous station of Chernobyl [00:08:16] type. There is always [00:08:20] danger, for example, the fifth [00:08:22] column. [00:08:24] If God forbid day X comes, you can [00:08:28] gather, take cover and so [00:08:30] on. [00:09:07] will see her only on Judgment Day. Abandon your [00:09:11] hopes. She [00:09:15] is no longer in this world. It's hard for me to believe that Sitaru was [00:09:18] killed. I don't believe this [00:09:22] person's words at all. It's been 5 years since she last [00:09:25] spoke to her daughter, who [00:09:28] went to Syria in 2015. [00:09:55] Such a project of a network memorial [00:09:59] arose, which consists of such small plaques, each of which [00:10:02] is dedicated to one specific person. It [00:10:06] will be hung on the wall of the house that became his [00:10:09] last address, that is, the house from which he was taken. [00:10:55] you want to say, yes, I want to say something [00:10:58] good, I want to say something good, because, [00:11:02] because people started returning these [00:11:05] plaques. First, let's see [00:11:09] how it happened when the plaques [00:11:12] were twisted off. Here are a few photos I [00:11:15] prepared, let's see how vandals [00:11:19] tried to tape all sorts of things, [00:11:23] here. [00:11:36] this is a homemade plaque, it [00:11:39] is made of cardboard, people are returning [00:11:43] names, if you are the very person who [00:11:46] restores plaques, write to me, and I [00:11:50] want to tell about you, it's clear that [00:11:52] anonymously, [00:12:05] a teacher who tells [00:12:08] children at school about what is good, what is [00:12:12] bad [00:12:12] and [00:12:17] that war, you cowards, I'm talking to you behind the TV, [00:12:19] telling [00:12:23] these stories. Thank you, the topic [00:12:26] will go away. [00:12:32] My husband's name is Zhenya, he is 42, in autumn [00:12:35] 2023 he started making cardboard plaques, copies of those [00:12:39] that the Last Address project installs on houses. At first, he [00:12:43] didn't tell me anything, and I noticed traces of his [00:12:46] work on the table: cardboard, paint, finished plaques. [00:12:50] I thought, what nonsense, what childishness, cardboard, [00:12:53] St. Petersburg weather with them... [00:13:07] he also got ready as if for the last time, no, [00:13:10] well, what does "also" mean? At some point, I definitely felt that [00:13:13] they would arrest me. I packed a bag. I [00:13:17] still have a packed bag for the case [00:13:19] of arrest. I found a lawyer in advance and discussed [00:13:23] all our actions with him. [00:13:25] I went with a plaque, she told me that I needed to have bags with me, in the bag there should be [00:13:29] paper, cash, well, in general, [00:13:32] she made me a list of what I needed to take with me, I carefully folded it all, [00:13:36] hung the bag on my shoulder and went to stand like this with the plaque. [00:13:40] Zhenya did not want to reveal his identity to journalists, he was afraid that [00:13:43] they would come for him before we could leave. When I resolved the misunderstanding [00:13:47] due to his excessive measures of secrecy, he [00:13:50] always had a handful of examples in reserve of how people [00:13:53] accused of similar things receive real sentences in... [00:14:25] generally ideal for trade, for sales, for the service sector. Secondly, [00:14:29] I have a high level of creativity, all this [00:14:31] combined in me. Empathy for the fact that I understand [00:14:35] that we are not going the right way. Our whole country [00:14:38] is turning into Iran and North Korea simultaneously. That is, all [00:14:42] the best achievements of North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran, they all come to the Russian [00:14:45] Federation. Toothpaste made in [00:14:48] Germany, [00:14:51] now you probably can't buy such a thing in a store. I'm imagining. [00:14:55] Public relations manager, lawyer and translator [00:14:59] from English, Zhenya an art critic, I work in PR [00:15:02] and marketing, Zhenya skillfully sells cars and [00:15:04] real estate, made it clear that it needed [00:15:07] to be removed. There are no confirmations of this, [00:15:11] most likely it is just an initiative of the local [00:15:13] housing and communal services. [00:15:16] We met Zhenya at the station when in November 2010 I [00:15:20] spontaneously moved from Yekat to St. Petersburg. I got off the train, [00:15:24] saw him for the first time on the platform, we went to his place and never [00:15:27] parted. He was also from Yekaterinburg, he rented [00:15:30] an apartment that had a free room for me for [00:15:33] a week. We celebrated our first anniversary with our son, now we have. [00:15:37] boys, listen, if honestly, I'm most afraid of [00:15:41] God, in principle there is nothing else that I [00:15:44] would be afraid of, well, I wouldn't want to be arrested [00:15:46] today, because there is still a desire to hang [00:15:50] more plaques, [00:15:52] copies of plaques, [00:15:54] this is the first thing, I don't want to at all, the camera is not [00:15:58] our home, this is no-mans, sang long [00:16:02] ago, [00:16:04] fuel, it was long overdue [00:16:07] to leave the union in those times, no, [00:16:11] from Russia, like Russia, now like [00:16:14] the union in Stalin's [00:16:15] time. [00:16:23] You understand, I am not a lawyer, I cannot tell you which article, but I am sure that even Sasha [00:16:27] Skachilenko, when she changed price tags in the store, she certainly did not know [00:16:31] what article it was, she certainly believed that there was no crime [00:16:34] in this, she certainly believed that... communicating [00:16:37] information to people is not a crime, I have exactly the same [00:16:41] thoughts, but in the end 7.5 years, her price tags are [00:16:44] a one-time action, they are smaller than a palm all together, [00:16:48] it turns out that I did it more thoroughly, because our plaques are larger [00:16:51] than a palm, and I have already installed about 55 [00:16:55] of them. Even if at this very minute, today I am not arrested, yes, but [00:16:59] I am sure that I will be arrested in a month, in two, in 5 [00:17:02] months, that is 100%, I have no [00:17:05] doubts at all. Everything's okay, give me [00:17:08] the plaque. [00:17:13] I do this, of course, for the purpose of having [00:17:17] a plaque hanging. The plaque disappeared, people talked about its disappearance, that's all [00:17:20] that ended. The main thing is that when people see a cardboard plaque, they [00:17:24] again think, "Wow, there was a plaque hanging here, it [00:17:27] was returned." And maybe it's not by chance? And who is this [00:17:30] person? And why is he hanging here? And how can it be for a political [00:17:34] crime? And he told an anecdote, and for that they [00:17:37] shot him? How can that be? It's absolutely perfect that he had the desire [00:17:41] to understand why this person is hanging here, why he [00:17:44] is a terrorist, why there are terrorists in our country [00:17:47] now. Now a person comes and asks, "What are you doing [00:17:51] here, sir?" Well, some impromptu, well, there were similar [00:17:54] cases, everything is normal, I told people, it was coordinated with the administration of the Vyborg [00:17:58] district [00:18:00] and the grandmother starts telling me, "Yes, well done, good, it's right that you're returning them, [00:18:04] the administration approved it, everything is correct, well done, let's go, that's all." [00:18:08] Perhaps the person will start to wonder why these terrorists are in prison, perhaps he [00:18:12] will find out that they are not terrorists at all, perhaps he will take some [00:18:15] actions that are in his, in his, perhaps he will go and [00:18:19] make such a plaque himself and hang it, perhaps he will apply for a plaque for [00:18:22] some relative at the Last Address, perhaps he [00:18:26] will start voting in elections not the way our authorities [00:18:38] Zhenya lost his job a couple of weeks before the start of the war, he is sure [00:18:42] that it was because of his active political position. After February [00:18:45] 24th, he couldn't bring himself to go to work, he didn't want to pay [00:18:49] taxes that would go to kill people. He was very upset, [00:18:52] constantly followed the news, even when most people had resigned themselves and [00:18:56] gotten used to it. He kept thinking about what he could do to express his [00:19:00] protest, and how to give our family a chance for a safe, happy [00:19:03] future. We lived on minimum wages, on my small [00:19:06] salary and money from selling a car and parking, [00:19:21] some elements of actionism are certainly present here, because, well, it's not [00:19:24] public, I try to do all this as [00:19:27] incognito as possible, hiding myself, of course, this is a political [00:19:31] protest, that is, if you hang original plaques, well, conditionally made of [00:19:35] metal, yes, then... well, for that I need to have some kind of [00:19:38] metal production, and so on and so forth, but let's assume I have all of that, like all sorts of [00:19:42] cutting machines, grinding machines, [00:19:46] yes, it turns out that the Last Address takes and [00:19:50] hangs plaques, but the Last Address is a memorial and all that [00:19:53] and they can be held accountable for it, but this way no one [00:19:56] can hold them accountable, because these are not plaques [00:20:00] of the Last Address, these are plaques made by an unknown person, they are [00:20:03] handwritten. Initially, of course, that was exactly the idea, that these are ordinary... citizens [00:20:08] and these ordinary citizens are simply concerned about the situation that [00:20:12] we have this memorial, a foreign agent, he is an enemy, and this enemy here [00:20:15] spreads his propaganda. And then, in general, I learned that there is [00:20:19] this portal also from social networks. On this [00:20:22] portal, I learned that there is a certain, some Alexander S., who [00:20:26] complained about the plaque. While looking through this site, I at some point [00:20:29] saw that these people are not just one Alexander [00:20:32] S., there is a whole row of them. These people write [00:20:36] complaints only... about plaques. I have a stable feeling that this is [00:20:40] not a struggle of ordinary people, it is a struggle of people [00:20:42] invested with power, Lesnoy Prospekt, house [00:20:45] 61, house of specialists, built [00:20:48] in the 30s. Here [00:20:57] people lived distinguished [00:21:01] and therefore on the house there are 34 [00:21:04] plaques of the last address. Zhenya really [00:21:07] loves history, especially he resonates with what is connected with the period [00:21:11] of Stalin's repressions and the Second World War. He would really like [00:21:14] people to know and remember these pages of Soviet history, [00:21:17] especially now, when it seems that we... live in this terrible spiral [00:21:21] turn, so he supported the Last Address so much and [00:21:24] worried that the plaques were being torn off, considering the victims [00:21:27] criminals, and Stalin a hero, the project itself, [00:21:30] casting a shadow on Putin's government, iron [00:21:34] cardboard, company secret, look, [00:21:37] engineer, engineer, engineer, engineer, [00:21:41] engineer, engineer, engineer, [00:21:44] process engineer, this is an employee, an employee, [00:21:47] philosopher, economist, railway engineer, [00:21:51] electrical engineer, that is, people [00:21:53] with an engineer, historian [00:21:57] of philosophy [00:21:58] Bukhanov, [00:22:04] I, in principle, well, what, I would gladly stay in Russia, yes, I said, well, [00:22:08] they will arrest me, I will sit, I treat this normally, [00:22:11] but only my relatives will suffer from this, that's [00:22:15] the point, [00:22:17] this is the first part, the second part I... I don't see my [00:22:21] children at all, [00:22:24] you talked to Andrey about his views, how can he live in such a country, [00:22:28] well, I'm afraid for the children, if there were no three boys, if there were no three [00:22:32] boys, we wouldn't even have this conversation, that's the point. [00:22:35] I was afraid that the plaques could attract [00:22:39] attention to our family, then there would be another dozen [00:22:42] reasons to make our children orphans. I knew for sure that by [00:22:46] the time our eldest son came of age, we would have to leave the country. I [00:22:50] had nightmares about him being drafted into the army and sent on a combat mission [00:22:54] into the thick of it. It seems that, like the [00:22:57] Afghan War, this war will drag on for decades. [00:23:00] I thought we could still live quietly for a few more years, not expressing our [00:23:04] views. During this time, I would find a job in Europe, and so we [00:23:07] would move, or if it didn't work out with work, the children would enter [00:23:11] foreign universities, in Europe or [00:23:13] the USA. [00:23:17] And you tell your classmates anything? No, no, [00:23:20] because they might write a denunciation against him, we already have [00:23:23] two propaganda lessons, these are [00:23:27] "Conversations about the Important" and ODNK, there [00:23:30] what is ODNK - Fundamentals of Spiritual and Moral Culture [00:23:33] of Russia, there they pretend to talk about some [00:23:37] development of Russia, in fact there is only propaganda, [00:23:40] they absolutely certainly form a generation of people who will happily die for [00:23:44] Putin, who will be glad that they are shown photographs [00:23:48] of destroyed Donetsk. [00:24:07] My children came home from school and told me, these "Important Lessons" had just started for them. On October [00:24:10] 17, 2022, Andrey, [00:24:14] who was then, at that time [00:24:16] a fourth-grader, Leo Tolstoy. [00:24:20] In 1854 he fought in the Crimean War, [00:24:23] defended Crimea, he is a true patriot, this [00:24:27] is proof that Crimea is ours, [00:24:31] that is, the child is 10 years old. October 20, 2022 [00:24:34] literary reading they discussed Yuri Alyosha, [00:24:38] this is in Andrey's class, fourth grade, and of course [00:24:41] they discussed the writer's origin [00:24:44] Alyosha, that he is from Ukraine and that now the authorities there [00:24:47] have been seized by enemies. April 10, 2 [00:25:20] lived with the idea that, here, here, the Soviet economy will collapse [00:25:23] now, the economy that listen, well, Lena suggested [00:25:27] staying, and forgetting everything and going to work and being a happy [00:25:30] person, the first option, the second option, "Let me find a job," Lena says, [00:25:34] "Let's go abroad to work," but for 2 years she's been looking, something's not working out yet, [00:25:38] "Let's get divorced," Lena told me, "Let's get divorced, you don't want to live with us, you [00:25:42] want your America, let's get divorced." At [00:25:44] the present moment, the situation is such that the American [00:25:47] government provides an opportunity to legally cross. [00:26:02] United States, it allows [00:26:06] you to work, allows you to send children to school, get [00:26:09] free medical insurance, even for adults, there is an opportunity [00:26:13] to earn, uh, [00:26:15] there is a community, [00:26:18] Russian-speaking, which does everything to [00:26:22] end the war, and I want to participate in this, [00:26:25] and for this, the excellent way is to create your own [00:26:28] business that will become profitable, and spend money on charity, including [00:26:32] helping those who are changing our [00:26:35] country. I am talking about some opposition members, and independent [00:26:38] journalists, help me [00:26:42] guys, but help me, how [00:26:45] can you sit abroad and happily argue that you owe everything yourselves, people [00:26:49] don't have, first of all, the desire, and secondly, the opportunities, we have so many National Guardsmen [00:26:53] in the country that any protest they will simply [00:26:57] crush, even if several thousand people come out, but they will come. from [00:27:00] neighboring regions, they will cram into their [00:27:03] paddy wagons, and it will look like a black currant, [00:27:06] with a small, small crowd of protesters in it. [00:27:09] Even agreeing to [00:27:13] the USA, I didn't believe in it at all and continued [00:27:16] to cling to the legal option with my job, understanding that the departure [00:27:19] was imminent, and I wanted to go to Kurgan. This was [00:27:23] my condition, I wouldn't go anywhere without seeing my relatives. Zhenya [00:27:27] was in a hurry to leave for the USA, because of their internal [00:27:30] political processes, because of [00:27:33] the increasingly difficult situation at the border, because of [00:27:37] the fact that Russians were turned away everywhere at airports, and I kept [00:27:40] delaying and hoping that something [00:27:43] would happen in the world, in Russia, in our family, [00:27:47] and we wouldn't leave, for now, [00:27:50] 14:54 in Moscow, we begin our emergency [00:27:54] broadcast dedicated to the news of Alexei Navalny's death. [00:27:57] The news of Alexei Navalny's death occupies the front pages of all [00:28:01] Western publications. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a colony. [00:28:19] I was then mentally prepared for the fact that I would fly there with Andrey [00:28:23] alone, that's it, the existence of our family would end. Now [00:28:26] there is still a chance that our whole family will move [00:28:30] and you understand, this is terrible? But the main reason for this is the murder [00:28:34] of Navalny, that is, if [00:28:36] Alexei [00:28:38] was alive and well, it is quite possible that I would be nervous [00:28:42] now, but Alexei's death, it strongly [00:28:46] pushed Lena, then people gathered on the Resurrection [00:28:49] embankment at these symbolic [00:28:53] Scythian figures opposite the crosses, and I remember, we [00:28:56] laid flowers, it was an amazing state, because [00:28:59] people just stood and were silent. No one said [00:29:02] anything, no one called anyone, no one chanted anything, people just stood and [00:29:06] were silent, there was not a single policeman, there was just a mountain [00:29:09] of flowers, there were several photographs [00:29:13] of Alexei, Lena was crying and [00:29:17] crying all this time, I don't even know, she weighs 50 kg, she probably cried out 200 kg [00:29:21] of tears, where did she get all this from? As long as [00:29:24] Alexei Navalny was here, even in prison, he remained [00:29:28] a beacon of hope for me that we would have a beautiful Russia of the future. [00:29:32] The one he saw, I thought, how can I leave when [00:29:36] so many wonderful, important people for me remain in the country, [00:29:39] such as Yevgeny Roizman, Dmitry Muratov, Yuri Shevchuk, [00:29:43] when so many political prisoners are in prisons, when I can still do [00:29:47] something, the murder of Alexei was a powerful blow for me, [00:29:50] because it killed hope. I was afraid to admit to my relatives that we [00:29:54] would leave, I was afraid to hurt them, admitting it is almost as difficult as [00:29:58] making the decision to leave. [00:30:00] It's clear that it's all hard for her. She's fighting, she doesn't [00:30:04] want to leave her family, in principle, nothing else holds her here, [00:30:07] only her family and close ones, [00:30:10] and that's it. They absolutely certainly [00:30:13] consider me a traitor [00:30:14] and [00:30:18] I have been threatened more than once with a police report against me, my [00:30:21] mother first, all [00:30:24] the others after her, father, dad genuinely doesn't understand why I still [00:30:27] haven't gone to the military enlistment office and signed up as a volunteer. [00:30:31] So mom and dad, they don't know that we are leaving, I am sure that if [00:30:35] they find out, then with a high degree of probability, damn it, they don't know, [00:30:38] they will report us to the police, they will turn us back somewhere [00:30:41] at the airport, we are flying from [00:30:45] Russia, we have a tourist ticket, [00:30:48] a tourist flight to Varadero, which is in [00:30:51] Cuba, we will stay there for some time, then we will try to go to [00:30:55] Mexico, in Mexico we will try to cross [00:30:58] the Mexican-American.