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[00:00:19] And continuing a little bit the topic of choice,
[00:00:23] the topic of voting, I would like to talk about
[00:00:26] responsibility,
[00:00:30] It concerns my long-standing initiative to return
[00:00:33] the monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin to its original place, to the
[00:00:37] place where it was installed and where it was unveiled. This
[00:00:40] was my rather old initiative,
[00:00:44] which I put forward, the city
[00:00:47] hall refused me, and I
[00:00:50] could understand this, because there are some plans,
[00:00:54] there is its own urban planning policy, so I had
[00:00:58] no objections.
[00:01:00] I had no objections to this refusal, well, they refused, they refused, but
[00:01:03] after I think,
[00:01:06] two or three years I was approached with
[00:01:09] a question: is it true that I proposed to move the Pushkin
[00:01:13] monument to the other side of Tverskaya
[00:01:16] Street, I answered that it was true, it happened, they
[00:01:19] asked me if I could argue it,
[00:01:23] I said that yes, I can, and I argued it, on
[00:01:27] August 28, 2026, on the
[00:01:30] Moscow City Hall portal a test electronic
[00:01:34] vote was launched, people who voted, read
[00:01:37] this:
[00:01:40] should the monument to A.S. Pushkin be
[00:01:44] returned to its historical place on Tverskoy
[00:01:47] Boulevard, in honor of whose opening
[00:01:50] the famous speech by Fyodor Mikhailovich
[00:01:53] Dostoevsky was given, about the role of the poet in
[00:01:57] the unification of Russia.
[00:02:30] there were quite a lot of all kinds of comments,
[00:02:33] sometimes stupid, naive, someone wrote
[00:02:37] that Mikhalkov had gone crazy, that he wanted
[00:02:39] to clear the way for the red carpet
[00:02:42] of the festival, well, and so on and so forth, I honestly
[00:02:46] tell you, I don't want to be an empty projector
[00:02:49] who says something into the air, and waits
[00:02:52] for a reaction, so I would like people to hear
[00:02:56] really that argumentation that I used when...
[00:03:00] proposed to move the monument to its
[00:03:03] original place, the fact is that the monument to our great
[00:03:06] poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin,
[00:03:10] was installed on Strastnaya, now Pushkin
[00:03:13] Square, facing Strastnoy Monastery.
[00:03:17] At the solemn opening of this monument,
[00:03:20] on June 6, 1880,
[00:03:24] among other famous guests
[00:03:28] Fyodor Mikhailovich was present.
[00:03:31] who then delivered the famous Pushkin
[00:03:34] speech, where he particularly emphasized: if there
[00:03:38] were no Pushkin, perhaps our faith in our Russian
[00:03:41] independence, our conscious
[00:03:45] hope now for our
[00:03:47] national strength, and then also faith in
[00:03:51] the coming independent destiny,
[00:03:55] would not have been defined with such unwavering
[00:03:58] force. The Pushkin monument was erected... facing Strastnoy
[00:04:01] Monastery, founded in
[00:04:03] 1654. In
[00:04:06] 1937 the monastery was
[00:04:09] destroyed, in 1950
[00:04:12] as part of the reconstruction of Moscow, a decision
[00:04:16] was made to move the Pushkin monument to the site
[00:04:19] of the demolished bell tower of that very Strastnoy
[00:04:22] Monastery, which in my opinion, to put it mildly, is not
[00:04:26] very correct. I am convinced that Alexander
[00:04:30] himself would have been indignant that his monument was placed
[00:04:33] on the site of a demolished monastery. Therefore,
[00:04:36] moving the monument to its original place
[00:04:39] would signify the restoration of historical justice
[00:04:44] and the calming of the soul of the great genius
[00:04:47] who wrote such lines. Two feelings
[00:04:50] are wonderfully close to us, in them the heart finds
[00:04:54] nourishment, love for the native
[00:04:57] ashes, love for the fatherland.
[00:05:02] It seems to me that if we approach
[00:05:06] this issue seriously, then perhaps it would make sense not
[00:05:10] to organize.
[00:06:42] because it somehow
[00:06:45] concerns me personally. The fact is that
[00:06:48] on the site of our theater, Nikita Mikhalkov's
[00:06:51] Workshop 12, a church once stood.
[00:06:55] It was built in 1640.
[00:06:58] The Church of the Nativity of Christ. It
[00:07:02] was wooden. In 1693
[00:07:06] it was rebuilt into a stone one. When
[00:07:09] Lermontov lived on Povarskaya with his grandmother.
[00:07:13] this was his parish church. In
[00:07:15] 1931, the church was demolished
[00:07:18] by the Bolsheviks. Almost 100 years after
[00:07:21] the temple was destroyed, we
[00:07:24] decided to restore justice. And next to
[00:07:27] the theater, almost in the same place, we
[00:07:31] decided to build a church, also the Church of the Nativity
[00:07:34] of Christ. With the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All
[00:07:38] Russia Kirill, on September 17 of this
[00:07:41] year, Metropolitan.
[00:09:12] with our own hands we undermine
[00:09:15] from within
[00:09:17] this spirit, this very unwavering faith
[00:09:21] in our independence, which Fyodor
[00:10:13] despite the fact that the whole newspaper is in Russian, then
[00:10:17] for whom is this, does this bring us closer to the civilized
[00:10:21] world, well, tell me, how does this relate to the fact that...
[00:10:25] both the leadership of Karelia and the residents of Karelia
[00:10:29] claim that this is Russian land, historically
[00:10:32] Russian land. Why do marketers
[00:10:35] assume that writing the name
[00:10:38] of the newspaper in such a font and putting it in each
[00:10:42] hotel room of the Frigate, will
[00:10:45] give a feeling of Europeanism,
[00:10:48] of closeness to the civilized world,
[00:10:52] it seems like a trifle, doesn't it?
[00:10:55] No, the devil is in
[00:10:57] the details, this is not a trifle, in this
[00:11:01] lies the answer to many questions that concern
[00:11:04] us, isn't this trifle related to another, seemingly
[00:11:06] trifle, when
[00:11:09] the world-famous hockey player Alexander
[00:11:12] Ovechkin says in his interview
[00:11:15] this:
[00:11:20] Russian, you heard, I'm Russian, how is this
[00:11:23] translated, I am Russian?
[00:12:55] also uses what he has developed in our
[00:12:59] country, against our own country, remember
[00:13:03] a fragment from one of our
[00:13:05] Besagon shows: listen to what journalist Trofim
[00:13:08] Tatarinkov says,
[00:13:12] a comrade with his gang is going
[00:13:15] to leave our country, not just
[00:13:18] leave, but leave with a scandal, with some howls and tones, taking
[00:13:22] with him some company that will then
[00:13:25] materialize in France under the name Newbius, and
[00:13:28] what was lost? A very small, small
[00:13:31] trifle was lost, this is artificial intelligence,
[00:13:34] this is the artificial intelligence system Neobius, precisely at the moment when
[00:13:38] we really need it, when they
[00:13:41] left us Chinese Alice, Chinese in terms of hardware,
[00:13:45] it is Chinese, in terms of filling, which is the most interesting thing, it is
[00:13:49] also Chinese, this is our most natural, developed by our
[00:13:52] brains artificial intelligence Neobius which was... reported by comrade
[00:13:56] Macron, as a French achievement.
[00:14:00] We read a recent news: the company of the founder
[00:14:04] of Yandex became a partner of the supplier
[00:14:07] of artificial intelligence for the Pentagon. Arkady Volozh's
[00:14:11] company Nebius will unite
[00:14:15] forces with Palantir for providing
[00:14:19] clients with a complete set of tools for
[00:14:22] creating their own model
[00:14:26] of artificial intelligence, that is,
[00:14:29] Arkady Volozh will cooperate with an absolutely
[00:14:33] unprincipled organization on
[00:14:36] whose hands are the murder of children in a college dormitory in Starobelsk,
[00:14:39] the destruction of 150 girls in
[00:14:43] the Iranian city of Minav, given that Volozh
[00:14:46] for 30 years was at the helm of the entire
[00:14:49] information infrastructure of modern
[00:14:52] Russia, it cannot be that... combat
[00:14:55] drones fly all over the territory of our country,
[00:14:59] blowing up warehouses, factories, oil refineries, killing
[00:15:02] people, precisely thanks to the assistance
[00:15:06] of the former head of Yandex. And who can
[00:15:09] confirm that this Volozh through his old connections
[00:15:12] does not have access to Yandex systems
[00:15:16] today? And suddenly it turns out that since at least
[00:15:18] 2015, Mr. Volozh
[00:15:22] has permanently resided in Israel,
[00:15:25] continuing to receive benefits, subsidies
[00:15:28] and all sorts of advantages related to business in
[00:15:31] Russia, so when we ask,
[00:15:34] surely no one saw, understood...
[00:15:37] did not know, but the answer is obvious, and they
[00:15:41] knew, understood, and
[00:15:43] saw, and so what?
[00:15:46] Nothing. Well, for example,
[00:15:49] a surprising situation. There is such
[00:15:52] a famous Perm human rights activist and public
[00:15:56] figure, Igor Overkiev. Here
[00:15:59] he writes on his social networks, this is absolutely
[00:16:03] public information, so to speak, there is nothing
[00:16:06] secret.
[00:17:07] Chairman of the Permanent Commission for
[00:17:10] the Development of Civil Society Institutions of the
[00:17:14] Council under the President of the Russian Federation for
[00:17:17] the Development of Civil Society and
[00:17:21] Human Rights, as well as the Director of the
[00:17:25] Center for Civil Analysis and
[00:17:28] Independent Research "Grani"
[00:17:31] in Perm, whose projects
[00:17:34] regularly become winners of competitions.
[00:19:38] led by Yulia Navalnaya, which
[00:19:42] took place in Vilnius in 2025.
[00:19:45] 66 specialists
[00:19:47] participated in the event. So, who was there?
[00:19:51] There was Leonid Volkov, Ilya
[00:19:54] Yashin, Tamara Edelman,
[00:19:58] Michael Naki, Konstantin Ssonin
[00:20:02] and other, other bright faces. Here is their
[00:20:04] program. I will dwell on... let's say, fundamental
[00:20:08] things. For example, how the army reform
[00:20:11] will happen. The military doctrine is
[00:20:15] defensive in nature. The use of armed forces
[00:20:19] outside of Russia is legally
[00:20:22] prohibited. Exceptions may
[00:20:25] be cases where military presence
[00:20:28] is required in accordance with international
[00:20:31] agreements. Compulsory conscription
[00:20:34] is abolished. A serviceman has the status of
[00:20:37] a citizen in military uniform, that is,
[00:20:41] around us are NATO bases, and we
[00:20:44] don't even have soldiers and we don't even have training, we have
[00:20:48] a military citizen.
[00:20:51] That's fine, and we can only fight if
[00:20:54] the hegemon orders us
[00:20:58] to fight against someone,
[00:21:02] against whom the hegemon incites us,
[00:21:05] excellent, for Russia,
[00:21:08] fine, next, reform
[00:21:11] of law enforcement agencies and special services,
[00:21:15] liquidate the FSB of Russia and distribute its
[00:21:19] powers.
[00:24:20] or Babi Yar, in which Germans were helped
[00:24:23] by Ukrainian police from the UN wing. The lies
[00:24:26] of these media are dictated by the fact that
[00:24:29] they are sponsored by precisely those countries that
[00:24:33] constantly reproach us
[00:24:36] for the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, never
[00:24:40] mentioning that it was a necessity,
[00:24:44] a forced necessity, which the Soviet
[00:24:47] Union went for, which Stalin went for in...