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00:00:48Citizens of our country have the opportunity to vote for peace and freedom, for the lives
00:00:52of people (two): 10 parties for war, one
00:00:56against. The Central Election Commission held a drawing of lots.
00:01:46party, it's nothing more than a cell, said Dmitry Peskov,
00:01:49press secretary of the Russian President, in a comment to the
00:01:52Washington Post. He is sure, I quote: those who violate the
00:01:56law are pressured, and those who do not violate it freely...
00:02:00express their opinion. End of quote. The problem is
00:02:03that, for example, an anti-war statement in Russia, any, can be interpreted
00:02:07as illegal, or the publication of a photograph of Alexei Navalny.
00:02:11Or the publication of a link to a video, in which there is a publication of a photograph of Alexei
00:02:14Navalny. But everything is in strict accordance with the law.
00:02:18For example, with politician Boris Nadezhdin, he was urgently deprived of passive
00:02:22electoral rights, first being recognized as a foreign agent, then
00:02:25a report was drawn up on the demonstration of extremist symbols, because
00:02:29of a link. to that very video with a photograph of Alexei
00:02:32Navalny. Nadezhdin left Russia, although he was going
00:02:35to run in the State Duma elections as a self-nominated candidate.
00:02:39The Yabloko party has problems with nominating candidates in
00:02:42regional elections, for example in St. Petersburg and Karelia. There
00:02:46they found different reasons, we will not dwell on them in detail now. The key point is that
00:02:49there are strong politicians there, who consistently got into regional
00:02:52parliaments. Yabloko has been absent from the State Duma since 2003,
00:02:56and it is all the more curious that now, against the background of a clear
00:03:00campaign, those who probably did not see Yabloko in the
00:03:04State Duma live are campaigning for Yabloko. The federal list
00:03:07of the party for the State Duma elections was approved by the Central Election Commission: in the federal
00:03:11ballot, Yabloko got number two, after United
00:03:14Russia, and independent analysts note: online,
00:03:17Yabloko confidently ranks among the top three in terms of the number of subscribers in its
00:03:20social networks, and on television it is practically in a block. We will
00:03:24analyze both of these points today, both the offline and online situation.
00:03:28Let's start with how Yabloko is discussed on TikTok. My
00:03:31colleague Artur Davletchin will continue: a new
00:03:34fork appeared, our country approached it a month
00:03:38ago, the fate of Yabloko raised big questions, repression against
00:03:42party members, additional checks by the Central Election Commission, it seemed,
00:03:45put an end to the Duma campaign, however, the party was
00:03:49allowed to participate in the elections, having registered a federal
00:03:52list, which means that the only anti-war party has
00:03:55a chance, we are the only political force offering a real
00:03:59alternative. to the government's course, we stand for peace.
00:04:03A week after the CEC decision on registration, a post appeared in the party's Telegram channel,
00:04:06stating that they had surpassed United Russia in terms of
00:04:09subscribers. Yabloko became the second most popular in
00:04:12Telegram. New People occupied the first place, but on August 5,
00:04:16Yabloko overtook them. Now more than
00:04:1990,000 people have subscribed to the party of peace's Telegram channel. But
00:04:23any success is accompanied by failures. Recently, the party
00:04:26announced the start of fundraising for its campaign, and soon the donation
00:04:30collection site was subjected to a DDoS attack, and the growth in the number of subscribers
00:04:34in the party was attributed to manipulation. On the day we overtook United
00:04:37Russia in terms of Telegram subscribers, our channel was subjected to
00:04:41a massive bot attack. It is obvious that the goal of this attack is to
00:04:44discredit our result. Instead of honest
00:04:47political competition, someone prefers to use dirty
00:04:50technologies, but neither DDoS attacks nor bot manipulation
00:04:54will change the main thing. People continue to come to us,
00:04:57support us and stand for peace. Due to the lack
00:05:01of access to old media, the party conducts its main campaign online, in
00:05:05its social networks they publish speeches by the party chairman
00:05:08Nikolai Rybakov or communication with other prominent members, for example,
00:05:11Kirill. To change the situation in the country,
00:05:14to truly show political subjectivity,
00:05:18society will only be able to by voting for Yabloko. In social networks, Yabloko
00:05:22posts memes to trending music. You can't listen to it due to copyright,
00:05:25but we can show them to you. The unofficial anthem of the
00:05:29campaign was a song by singer Yolka and the band Iowa.
00:05:32Yabloko. Here, listen to our cover of it.
00:05:36I give, I sing, in dandelions,
00:05:39I divide in half, one apple.
00:05:42Apple, apple,
00:05:45apple. TikTok users not only shoot videos to
00:05:49music, but also to speeches by other politicians, for example, Maxim
00:05:52Katz, a former Yabloko member, by the way, each party from the systemic
00:05:55opposition has its own role, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation should smell of grandma's
00:05:59apartment with a Yugoslav sofa and almost kiss Stalin,
00:06:02the Liberal Democratic Party should publicly compile execution lists, and the party of
00:06:06citizens should be as bland as possible, or they make their own
00:06:09political statements, vote. for
00:06:13the Yabloko party, it is incredibly important, it
00:06:16is the only party that opposes
00:06:20the war. Don't vote for Yabloko, it won't get 5% and your vote
00:06:24will go nowhere. Why are you saying this,
00:06:28gentlemen, bloggers, political, liberal, by the way,
00:06:31admitted to voting, you can vote for it, but the only problem, it
00:06:35seems to me, is that most of the people who really want to vote for Yabloko are
00:06:39not adults and cannot vote. Online successes
00:06:42make rivals bite their elbows, or rather apples. Here,
00:06:46for example, a creative from the New People party. In their social networks, they published
00:06:49a video in which State Duma Vice-Speaker Vladislav Davankov
00:06:53eats an apple. United Russia is also not lagging behind. The
00:06:56Atlas of Elections project summarizes that the ruling party is trying to increase
00:07:00its mentions on the Internet through administrative resources. They write in
00:07:03regional and municipal official public pages, as well as subordinate
00:07:07organizations. In the penultimate week of July, analysts
00:07:11recorded an increase in mentions by 62%.
00:07:14Well, Mr. Davankov and his comrades are more or less creative, in the second
00:07:18part of our program we will quote some of Yabloko's competitors, there
00:07:21were quite interesting formulations, and before the broadcast
00:07:25we spoke with our source in the Yabloko party, we asked if this activity
00:07:29on the network, is it a grassroots initiative, or does it
00:07:33originate from the party itself? In these
00:07:35elections, only Yabloko stands for peace, so people who are
00:07:39tired of what is happening and want peace see this. and sincerely
00:07:43support it. In essence, it is support not even for the party, but
00:07:46for this very demand. We regard these elections as a
00:07:50referendum. In this referendum, citizens will be able to
00:07:53express whether they want what has been happening for the fifth year to continue, or
00:07:57they want peace. For the continuation of what is happening,
00:07:5910 parties stand. In the ballot for peace,
00:08:03only Yabloko. Therefore, campaigning for Yabloko on
00:08:06the Internet is a grassroots initiative. This is
00:08:09sincere support from our like-minded people. We are very
00:08:13grateful to people for such support, for their active civic
00:08:16position, and we will do everything to justify their trust, their
00:08:20expectations. And with us live is political scientist Dmitry
00:08:24Oreshkin. Dmitry, hello.
00:08:26Good afternoon, hello. In your opinion, what is this phenomenon, the online phenomenon, I
00:08:30would even say, of the Yabloko party right now? Well,
00:08:34listen, first of all, 90
00:08:37thousand supporters,
00:08:40well, for Russian standards.
00:09:12I would not flatter myself with these
00:09:15numbers, well, and generally,
00:09:19in fact, you see, the Yabloko
00:09:22electorate, and generally the Europeanized
00:09:26democratic electorate, which, by the way, is quite
00:09:29abundant in Russia, is found
00:09:32mainly in large cities, represented mainly
00:09:35by educated people, mainly with
00:09:39average incomes, but not only.
00:09:42And it is measured in, well, tens of millions of people,
00:09:4620-30 million, but this
00:09:50electorate does not go to the polls, it does not believe in
00:09:54the electoral process, in principle, in general
00:09:58it can be understood, although if it were
00:10:01rational, it would certainly
00:10:05take part in this procedure,
00:10:08but be that as it
00:10:10may,
00:10:12the masses, including the advanced,
00:10:15educated, they in
00:10:19most cases act irrationally,
00:10:22that's uh, actually, even
00:10:26the Yabloko message for peace, it's also
00:10:29irrational, but how will Yabloko ensure peace,
00:10:33if it, say, gets into
00:10:36parliament, no way, but generally what is
00:10:39formed in these elections, parliament is formed, the State
00:10:42Duma, that very institution, where
00:10:45the speaker five times chants
00:10:49скандирует
00:10:51there, Russia, Putin, victory, people. at
00:10:55the same time, he is silent, well, if there were
00:10:585% Yabloko deputies in this
00:11:02hall, they would behave approximately the same way as
00:11:05new people, that is, in fact, the Duma
00:11:09political
00:11:12actor
00:11:15is, well, of significance,
00:11:19well, the third group
00:11:21of kindergarten, where - Komsomol or
00:11:29Russia Putin - victory.
00:11:32From this follows a simple conclusion that these
00:11:36elections are not worth a broken penny. And the majority
00:11:39of rationally thinking, or European
00:11:42thinking, voters in Russia will behave
00:11:45exactly that way. I believe that this is
00:11:48wrong. I believe that it is right to behave
00:11:51in the opposite way, to come, to come and...
00:11:55somehow dispose of your
00:11:57vote, but I know, after 25
00:12:01years of working with the electorate, how it will
00:12:04actually be, in fact, people will put on a white
00:12:08coat, say, vote or don't vote,
00:12:12it means the result will be the same, with
00:12:15thimble-riggers I don't play with, I don't understand varieties of Germany,
00:12:18and they will beautifully ignore these
00:12:21elections, in the Kremlin they know this perfectly
00:12:26well, in Yabloko they also know this perfectly
00:12:28well, I understand your skepticism perfectly, excuse me for interrupting, but just so that we don't lose
00:12:32this thought, you said that there are clearly people who will most likely come to polling stations, well, and I
00:12:36assume you are hinting that they will spoil their ballots as a clear
00:12:40expression of protest, but our interlocutor in the Yabloko party today emphasized that they consider
00:12:44this an anti-war referendum, well, it turns out from their position, in some
00:12:47sense, one can assume that United Russia, and Putin in particular, also
00:12:51perceive these elections as some kind of referendum, well, from his position, the
00:12:55approval of the war, among other things, so he spoke, for example, at
00:12:58the United Russia congress in person, which hadn't happened for a long time, this is the first, the second
00:13:01is that 5 years is a huge electoral cycle for the State Duma,
00:13:05possibly half a generation has grown up, which, firstly,
00:13:08witnessed the beginning of the big war as minors, and secondly,
00:13:12now it already has the right to vote, so here's such a double question, will this
00:13:16referendum happen, considering, among other things, that spoiling ballots is also an expression of position,
00:13:19and has that very Yabloko electorate that you talked about become
00:13:23younger?
00:14:25the more primitive a society is, the more strongly it depends on such symbolic
00:14:28things, this is a ritual that must
00:14:31be performed, and for a significant part, not of the Yabloko
00:14:35electorate, but of a significant part of the majority of the population, this
00:14:38is important, if this ritual takes place somehow
00:14:41too incorrectly, it will be
00:14:45perceived as a weakness of power, the second is
00:14:48a test of control
00:14:51over the situation in the regions and accordingly a test of
00:14:55the effectiveness of regional bosses, the Kremlin deeply
00:14:59doesn't care what numbers they will get, draw, suck
00:15:02from their finger, mobilize the population, it doesn't matter,
00:15:06but if they bring the numbers in their teeth, it means they have coped
00:15:09with the task, and regional bosses understand this well, in different
00:15:13regions, the way of obtaining this number will be
00:15:15extremely different, this also needs to be understood, in
00:15:19urban regions it's one story, in rural -
00:15:22another, in electoral sultanates it's completely different, nevertheless,
00:15:26it's a test for the government to see how the machine works,
00:15:30and third, also very important, it's one
00:15:33of many ways of competition in pro-Putin
00:15:37forces, which compete with each
00:15:40other to show their effectiveness, who will win,
00:15:44who will be able or not be able to raise money,
00:15:47gather votes, gather administrative resources, to get this very
00:15:51number, so these three parameters,
00:15:55ritual, test and competition,
00:15:58elections are important for this government, and for
00:16:01the voter it's a way of demonstration and nothing
00:16:05more for such a... European-minded
00:16:08voter, a way of demonstration, you can
00:16:11demonstrate that you don't care when you don't go to the polls,
00:16:15all together, you
00:16:18take from Zyuganov to
00:16:21Yavlinsky, you can come and spoil
00:16:24the ballot, in this situation this is not the best option, you
00:16:28can come and vote for Yabloko, despite the fact that some
00:16:31part of the votes will be stolen there and so on and so forth, in this
00:16:35situation I think it would be more correct to vote for... Yabloko,
00:16:38but as a person with extensive experience
00:16:41in observing elections, I think that the first point is,
00:16:45a huge part of the potential Yabloko electorate will proudly
00:16:49and foolishly ignore the elections, well, that's how our
00:16:52public opinion is structured,
00:16:54second,
00:16:57when counting votes, people controlled by Mr.
00:17:00Kiriyenko, if there are too many Yabloko members,
00:17:04it will suddenly turn out that Yabloko is politely... and you
00:17:07can't do anything about it, no courts will save you,
00:17:10well,
00:17:13third - it's that,
00:17:16that uh, in fact,
00:17:20as sad as it is, Yabloko is also
00:17:24a member of this team, and
00:17:27otherwise it would not exist in Russia,
00:17:31it was very carefully
00:17:34trimmed, painted, castrated, deprived of...
00:17:38two regions where it was
00:17:41really possible to get at least one or two deputies
00:17:45in a single-mandate constituency, that's clearly Karelia and
00:17:48clearly Moscow, the most prominent
00:17:52figures were put in prison, Lev Shlosberg is behind
00:17:55bars, and so,
00:17:58after castrating, then tying its legs, and also
00:18:01putting blinders on its eyes,
00:18:04Yabloko was released on the track. well,
00:18:07it's painfully difficult to force yourself
00:18:11to vote for such a fighter for peace, but Russia has
00:18:15no other options, but again I want to say, rationally,
00:18:18of course, yes, as far as I know
00:18:22the character of the deeply respected Russian
00:18:25voter, well, he won't go, he
00:18:27is ready to vote for a strong leader, be
00:18:31it Yeltsin, be it Navalny, be it
00:18:34someone else. He is not yet
00:18:39ready to vote for abstract
00:18:41values, so
00:18:44I would wholeheartedly suggest
00:18:48voting for Yabloko, but I know that this will not happen, and if
00:18:51it does, then of course it will not be allowed to get more
00:18:55than 3%, let's remember this forecast, but this is what
00:18:59is called at the federal level, I also want to note that in addition to the elections
00:19:02to the federal parliament, there are also regional elections, precisely at
00:19:06the federal level.
00:19:37and he can, so Shlosberg must
00:19:39be imprisoned, Pskov neutralized, he
00:19:43understands, that in
00:19:46Karelia it's the same, he understands that Moscow and
00:19:50St. Petersburg are still two potentially
00:19:53dangerous regions, in fact,
00:19:56that's all, it's all over, there's almost nothing left,
00:19:59you can try to catch something in Novosibirsk, somewhere else, but hardly,
00:20:03that is, he did
00:20:05everything to... to
00:20:08maintain the appearance of such
00:20:12a democracy, completely castrating all its
00:20:15content, in this
00:20:18sense he put down a straw three times
00:20:22for himself so as not to fall, so as not to let Yabloko
00:20:26suddenly bring someone, and participate, well, yes,
00:20:29of course, please, we'll say later,
00:20:32as Stalin said, we have the most democratic
00:20:36constitution.
00:20:50We read the analytics, looked at what and how everything is currently arranged with federal
00:20:54channels, they show universal support for the so-called
00:20:57SVO, and ignore Yabloko's peace program, in particular, the
00:21:01Atlas of Elections project writes about this, plus analysts noted that federal
00:21:04channels generally try to minimize the breadth of coverage
00:21:07of the parliamentary race, these elections are going on, well, let them go on, they will only be in September, there is still
00:21:11more than a month left until them, the head of the Just
00:21:15Russia faction, Sergei Mironov, urged the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General's Office to carefully
00:21:18look at the party. and its leaders, to give a legal assessment of their
00:21:22actions, plus he called some party representatives traitors, unnamed without getting personal,
00:21:25another deputy Zhuravlev generally caused a scandal right in the Central Election Commission
00:21:29and also under the pretext of Yabloko's anti-war position, this is what
00:21:32caused his claims, we will tell and show more in our
00:21:36report. Russia,
00:21:39Putin, victory. The slogans
00:21:41of State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, with which he closed this
00:21:44convocation of the State Duma, are quite predictable. During the war...
00:21:48in the Russian parliament, laws, as a rule,
00:21:50are adopted unanimously or with the passive participation of non-voting
00:21:54deputies. Many Russians are not interested in the September
00:21:58elections from the point of view of new faces appearing in parliament,
00:22:01few doubt the victory of the ruling party, in connection with rumors of possible
00:22:05mobilization after the vote, however, at the end
00:22:08of July, the CEC suddenly registered Yabloko,
00:22:11a party that is running in the elections with the slogan "for peace and freedom",
00:22:14advocates for a ceasefire agreement and against political
00:22:17repression.
00:22:50requirements of the legislation receive very little airtime compared
00:22:53to United Russia and other parliamentary factions,
00:22:57notes the Atlas of Elections project. On Wednesday, Yabloko
00:23:00received the second number on the ballot as a result of the CEC draw,
00:23:04it was shown on TV. Why did you decide not to rotate the Alatron? Because
00:23:07all the numbers that remained suit me.
00:23:11Well done! And moreover, I got what we wanted, because
00:23:15the real choice in the elections is either United Russia or Yabloko, our number
00:23:18two. Oh! Number
00:23:21two:
00:23:23now we know that citizens of our country have the opportunity to vote for
00:23:27peace and freedom, for people's lives. This is the first case in the current
00:23:31campaign when Yabloko's anti-war agenda could be heard on
00:23:34air. Over the past week, federal channels have generally
00:23:37reduced coverage of the election race. On Channel One, the share of such
00:23:41stories was only 2.5%, falling
00:23:44more than 10 times compared to the previous week, reports
00:23:48the Atlas of Elections. Yabloko managed to increase the number of mentions on
00:23:51federal channels, overtaking other small parties, but again
00:23:55without focusing on the anti-war program. As part of state
00:23:59support for families of SVO participants, 36
00:24:02regional support measures are in effect, the governor said they
00:24:05strive to implement them proactively. Last
00:24:08week, TV channels tried to create in viewers a sense of consolidation
00:24:12around support for the war and Russia's foreign policy, notes the
00:24:15Atlas of Elections. One of the main indicators of uneven
00:24:19coverage of parties' work over the past weeks is that stories about
00:24:22their pre-election congresses, for example, the United Russia congress
00:24:25received more airtime than all other
00:24:28parties combined. Well,
00:24:31is it worth recalling the famous epic of Mr. Zhuravlev about Danish
00:24:35turtles in allegedly public houses for zoophiles. An old meme, if
00:24:38you want, look it up on the Internet yourself, let's remember another
00:24:41episode, a recent, fresher one, a month ago Zhuravlev
00:24:45was asked why so few deputies or their children are fighting
00:24:48against Ukraine at all...
00:25:20no one was there, none of you, I am the only one who was at Zakharchenko's
00:25:24configuration, and you, you tell me,
00:25:27and where, show me your document, I don't need it at all, because you
00:25:31didn't understand that all deputies are forbidden to participate there
00:25:34only with permission,
00:25:35Order of Courage hero, that's
00:25:39fine, I don't know where he participated, I know where I
00:25:42participated, I have fallen guys and I didn't
00:25:45die not because I was hiding behind their backs.
00:25:49Go to hell, go
00:26:03there yourself, well, our interlocutor in the Yabloko party is generally
00:26:07optimistic in this tele-disposition, he claims that
00:26:10there is still free airtime ahead, as required by law, plus
00:26:13televised debates, and there it will also be possible to state Yabloko's position and
00:26:16pronounce their election slogans aloud
00:26:20on the federal channel. We will continue the topic with political scientist Dmitry
00:26:23Arishkin. Dmitry, what do you think about these outbursts from Mironov,
00:26:27he actually wrote this in writing in his Telegram channel, and Zhuravlev
00:26:30right in the Central Election Commission.
00:26:42artillery such an army of fleas, which bite,
00:26:45hysteria is very characteristic,
00:26:47indicative, but in the Kremlin there are people less hysterical and
00:26:51more rational, so they understand what
00:26:55they are doing, they understand that, yes, now
00:26:59they will release a pack of these little mongrels.
00:27:02which will not harm Yabloko, by
00:27:06God, themselves too,
00:27:10because their electorate is the same, but the point is not
00:27:13this, the strategy is as follows: the Kremlin controls
00:27:17the situation, it would otherwise have made
00:27:20it so that
00:27:23Yabloko's leadership would have gone the same way as
00:27:27Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin, well,
00:27:29the Kremlin now considered that Nadezhdin represents some kind of systemic,
00:27:33poorly manageable threat, so it's better to
00:27:36close it, Yabloko they do not consider such
00:27:40a threat, I think they consider it
00:27:43on the contrary,
00:27:46a convenient tool to suppress
00:27:49anti-war sentiments, they
00:27:52will count as many numbers, as many percentages
00:27:55as they deem necessary, then they will say, here you go, they
00:27:59will forget that they were not allowed, removed,
00:28:03imprisoned,
00:28:05hands and feet were tied, they will talk to their
00:28:09voters, who are the majority in Russia, and tell
00:28:12them, here Yabloko advocated
00:28:15for peace, how much did they get,
00:28:181.7, 2.3,
00:28:222.9, well, something like that,
00:28:25here's your Europeanized,
00:28:28they will tell Russian voters, and...
00:28:32Western-funded Yabloko,
00:28:35relying on foreign agents, if you look
00:28:39one and a half moves ahead, the picture will be the
00:28:42same, while I, based on what I
00:28:46think about these elections, what I have already said, still believe
00:28:49that with all, with all the negative
00:28:53aspects understandings, painful
00:28:56understandings of this process, you have to vote for Yabloko, but
00:29:00there is absolutely nothing to hope for... there's nothing
00:29:04and there's nowhere to retreat either,
00:29:08so you need to be calm,
00:29:11courageous, not get offended, do what is necessary
00:29:15and not be deceived. Dmitry, thank you very much, political scientist
00:29:18Dmitry Oreshkin was with us live on air, discussing this, this
00:29:22battle between TikTok and television, well, at