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00:00:00they, of course, influenced the political
00:00:04discourse, in general, and very much interfered, because, as a rule,
00:00:07these people of limited intelligence, they
00:00:10believe that somewhere someone is betraying, the fifth-sixth
00:00:14column, that it is necessary to squeeze, press, finally,
00:00:17well, deal with Ukraine,
00:00:20the authorities will perfectly understand that these populists, these
00:00:24loudmouths interfere a lot, because they cast a shadow on the authorities
00:00:27themselves, if there is a traitor,
00:01:01first of all, to say that they are more likely to be traitors than
00:01:04anyone else, because there is no opposition left in Russia,
00:01:08neither liberal nor any other,
00:01:11yes, everyone, everyone is a foreign agent or a patriot, it's divided into two
00:01:14camps, everything is divided, so
00:01:17they, of course, will bring some madness,
00:01:21but the authorities will have to react, how do they react, for example,
00:01:24with, let's say, leaders of public
00:01:27opinion, who are called Z-patriots, yes?
00:01:30Some are imprisoned, sanctions are imposed against some, some are
00:01:34appointed foreign agents, they also flashed
00:01:38very strongly, interfered very strongly. Speaking about which
00:01:41country Russians will wake up in after September 20th, it is clear that September
00:01:4520th is a very conditional date, but nevertheless many
00:01:48expect something, what
00:01:51can really happen, what
00:01:54will the authorities start doing, what will this new State
00:01:57Duma, the military State Duma,
00:02:01adopt?
00:02:04Well, most likely it will just enter a mode of even more
00:02:07insane furious print, I
00:02:11think, although we still need to
00:02:14take into account that
00:02:15self-awareness
00:02:19in the general State Duma may exist, because, well,
00:02:22as it was in 1917, when
00:02:25still when
00:02:29the state.
00:03:14Russia intends to hold elections in the occupied territories of
00:03:18Ukraine. This refers to annexed Crimea, as well as parts of
00:03:22Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, which
00:03:25Moscow has declared part of Russia's territory. Ukraine and
00:03:29most countries in the world do not agree with this and consider the holding of
00:03:33Russian elections there illegal. More on this from Alexey
00:03:36Prodayvoda. In the occupied territory of four
00:03:40Ukrainian regions, which Russia included in its
00:03:43Constitution, elections to the State Duma will be held
00:03:45for the first time, in annexed Crimea for the third time. In
00:03:49these regions, Russian authorities formed 11
00:03:52single-mandate constituencies, three on the peninsula, one in
00:03:55Sevastopol, three in Donetsk region, two in Luhansk, and
00:03:58one each in Kherson. In the Ukrainian
00:04:02lands seized in 2022, Russia
00:04:06has already held elections unrecognized by the international community.
00:04:08In 2023, local elections were held
00:04:11there, and a year later, presidential elections.
00:04:15If we take the previous local elections, or the elections
00:04:19for Putin, by Putin, or the referendum, this
00:04:22pseudo-referendum, they ran through courtyards with ballot boxes
00:04:26and forced people at gunpoint, well, some illusion.
00:04:30Such a mass turnout for this whole
00:04:33thing was still created, now they don't even bother, even according to our insiders, there's no
00:04:37plan to create such a picture there,
00:04:41because everyone understands that it's just teasing the geese, people, people are angry,
00:04:45so on the contrary, it's the opposite story here,
00:04:48the fewer people who come to the elections, the more ballots in the hands
00:04:51of the occupation administration, to put them with the necessary
00:04:55checkmark. It is noteworthy that in the regional list
00:04:58of candidates... Russia, in the four occupied
00:05:01Ukrainian regions, Pushilin, Pasechnik,
00:05:05Balitsky and Saldo are absent, that is, those whom the Kremlin at one
00:05:08time appointed to govern these territories, United Russia
00:05:11candidates.
00:06:12all confirmed in one voice that there is zero work, zero
00:06:16information campaign, zero work
00:06:19with voters at the local, at
00:06:23the local level there, also zero,
00:06:26absolutely no preparation of polling stations, any
00:06:30creation of any groups, notification, observer
00:06:33groups, none of this exists, no work with law enforcement agencies, which
00:06:36there, for example, could organize the security of the
00:06:40elections, even that is not happening.
00:06:42Nothing. The fact that these elections are taking place in wartime conditions in
00:06:46occupied territories is felt more than
00:06:49ever before. This summer, the Armed Forces regularly struck
00:06:52rear areas, cutting off logistics. In large cities, there are serious
00:06:56interruptions in electricity, communications and water supply, and an acute
00:06:59shortage of gasoline. All this affects electoral
00:07:03sentiments. Russians who came to occupied Crimea and voted
00:07:06for the pro-government force. They specifically
00:07:09voted for security. Now security. by the current
00:07:13occupation authorities is not guaranteed, conditionally one can already say that there is a large
00:07:17outflow of Russians from the territory of temporarily occupied
00:07:20Crimea, and therefore those loyal ones who were before,
00:07:24they cannot be relied upon, because they are practically no longer in
00:07:28occupied Crimea. The Russian Central Election Commission reports
00:07:315.5 million voters in Crimea in partially
00:07:34occupied regions, however, these data cannot be objectively
00:07:38verified. The Ukrainian experts we interviewed believe that in
00:07:41the occupied...
00:08:27- experts believe: any expression of will that Russia
00:08:31conducts in the occupied Ukrainian territories will not be recognized
00:08:35by Western countries, the Ukrainian authorities urge their citizens in
00:08:38the occupation not to participate
00:08:39in this. currently
00:08:43Ukraine.
00:08:46The Russian State Duma was not always what we are used to.
00:08:50Before, they argued in it, there were indeed debates, including
00:08:53there, they could vote against the Kremlin's
00:08:57decision, which was handed down. As
00:09:00chairman of the state, I propose to deprive
00:09:03Deputy Lysenko of the floor until the end
00:09:05of the session.
00:09:12The Russian parliament in the mid-nineties was very colorful, with nationalists and
00:09:16communists sitting in it, with one request to Yeltsin, that he
00:09:20immediately resign. Supporters of the war in Chechnya and
00:09:23supporters of its immediate cessation. It is necessary
00:09:27to negotiate, those who want to seize Crimea and
00:09:30opponents of such a decision. The state of Ukraine, where when? In
00:09:33those years, the State Duma really argued, and the result of these arguments was not
00:09:37always known in advance. Show the result.
00:09:4019 years pass.
00:10:25in Moscow, the so-called DNR and LNR. The State Duma ratifies
00:10:29treaties with them. Everyone who was in the State Duma that day supported this
00:10:32decision. Against - zero, abstained
00:10:36zero. Deputies greet the result standing. The State Duma
00:10:39itself called the vote unanimous. Two days later,
00:10:43Russia begins a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
00:10:47In the autumn, deputies vote for the annexation of four more
00:10:50occupied Ukrainian regions. And again, not
00:10:53a single vote against. Show the
00:10:57voting result. 1995,
00:11:002014, 2022.
00:11:03First, in the Russian parliament, dozens of different political forces,
00:11:07a real conflict, then a few dissenters.
00:11:11In the end, not a single one. How
00:11:13did the State Duma become like this?
00:11:17This story should start in 1999.
00:11:20Vladimir Putin is still
00:11:23prime minister.
00:11:28The Kremlin, before the parliamentary elections, creates the Unity bloc, in
00:11:32Unity is our strength, the interregional movement
00:11:34Unity, number 14 on the ballot paper. Its public
00:11:38leader becomes Sergei Shoigu. The task is not
00:11:41to allow another party of power to win, Fatherland All
00:11:44Russia, Yevgeny Primakov, Yury Luzhkov and Mintimer
00:11:47Shaimiev. Believe only
00:11:50in deeds. But after the elections, no single party still
00:11:54controls the Duma. The largest factions are the CPRF, Unity has
00:11:5773 deputies, the parliament is represented by Yabloko,
00:12:01SPS, Fatherland All Russia, Zhirinovsky's Bloc, and the Kremlin
00:12:04finds the first way to gather a manageable majority.
00:12:08The government does not intend to divide the deputy corps into
00:12:12its own and others'. In January 2000,
00:12:15Unity agrees with the communists and other deputy
00:12:18groups on the division of leadership posts.
00:12:22A real conspiracy is going on.
00:12:55controlling parliament begins not through one huge party, but
00:12:59through agreements with those who formally remain
00:13:02opposition. Please
00:13:03vote.
00:13:08Gennady Nikolaevich, I congratulate you and ask you to take your rightful
00:13:12place.
00:13:15But soon the need to negotiate almost
00:13:18disappears. Not long ago they fought each
00:13:21other, now they unite. In 2001,
00:13:25Unity, Fatherland All Russia create a party that
00:13:29is named United Russia. In one
00:13:32political structure are federal officials,
00:13:35governors and regional elites. I am for the president,
00:13:39which means for United Russia. Together with the president,
00:13:42choose United Russia. In the 2003 elections, this
00:13:46system first shows a result. United Russia -
00:13:50367, 36.5.
00:13:53Yabloko and SPS do not overcome the five percent barrier
00:13:57and do not enter the Duma. I believe that such a Duma is very
00:14:00dangerous for millions of Russian citizens. United
00:14:04Russia gets the largest faction, and by joining
00:14:08elected single-mandate deputies and deputies from other groups,
00:14:11soon gathers about 300 mandates, 2/3
00:14:14of the Duma. The main conclusions are that this is another
00:14:17step in strengthening democracy in the Russian
00:14:20Federation. The OSCE, based on the results of these elections,
00:14:24wrote: on the property of United Russia, the use of
00:14:27administrative resources and the de facto blurring of the line
00:14:30between the state and the ruling party.
00:14:34Boris Gryzlov becomes chairman of the Duma. Later his words
00:14:38will be turned into the famous phrase "Parliament is not a place for
00:14:41discussions." Gryzlov literally said otherwise, that the Duma
00:14:45is not the platform where political battles should be
00:14:48held. But this phrase conveys the direction of
00:14:52parliamentary change quite accurately.
00:14:55Russia,
00:14:57Russia,
00:14:59Russia,
00:15:04now the Kremlin is changing the very system through which deputies
00:15:07enter parliament, requirements for political parties
00:15:10are tightened, electoral blocs are banned, the threshold
00:15:14is raised from 5 to 7%, single-mandate constituencies
00:15:18are abolished.
00:15:21In the 2007 elections, all 450
00:15:25seats are for the first time distributed only by
00:15:28party lists, for a deputy this is a fundamental
00:15:32change, to be in the Duma again, it is now more important for him to
00:15:35maintain loyalty to the party leadership and get a place on the
00:16:15list. December 2nd decides the fate not only of Russia, but of the whole world. Putin's plan
00:16:18is Russia's victory. The result is already visible in
00:16:222007. United Russia gets
00:16:25315 seats. This is a constitutional majority.
00:16:28There are now only four parties in the Duma. United Russia,
00:16:32CPRF, LDPR and Fair
00:16:34Russia.
00:16:38Political competition finally moves beyond
00:16:41parliament. It's time to change power,
00:16:45change power. In December 2011,
00:16:49United Russia loses its constitutional
00:16:51majority.
00:16:54Numerous reports of violations appear in the elections.
00:16:57Observers publish videos of ballot stuffing, removal
00:17:00of observers and rewriting of protocols.
00:17:04Everyone stand still, this is a robbery.
00:17:07Dissatisfaction
00:17:12with the election results, for which there is almost no room left inside
00:17:15parliament, takes to the streets.
00:17:18Russia without Putin. Russia without
00:17:22Putin. Tens of thousands of people demand fair
00:17:26elections. These are the largest political protests since the beginning
00:17:29of Putin's rule. Too many questions about how the elections
00:17:33went. They didn't just steal votes. They usurped
00:17:37power.
00:18:29to control parliament, the Kremlin no longer needs to have 300 United Russia deputies, on key issues, decisions handed down
00:18:32from above are voted on by parties that are formally
00:18:36considered.
00:18:39Today is Vladimir Vladimirovich's birthday, let's congratulate
00:18:42him.
00:18:49And once again, briefly about this evolution. In
00:18:511995, different political forces were
00:18:55represented in the Duma, behind which stood different voters.
00:18:58Deputies argued and made independent decisions. One
00:19:02could stage a nationalistic provocation directly from the Duma
00:19:05rostrum, others could punish him for
00:19:07it, for 237 + 5 =
00:19:11242. In 2014, the Kremlin's
00:19:15decision to annex Crimea was supported by almost the entire Duma, but Ilya
00:19:18Ponomarev could still press the "against" button. Three more
00:19:21deputies could refuse to vote. Show the
00:19:24result. Two years later, these deputies are no
00:19:28longer in parliament.
00:19:31And six years later, Vladimir Putin recognizes the so-called
00:19:35DNR and LNR. All deputies vote yes, not
00:19:38a single one against, against - no, no abstentions.
00:19:42The Russian Duma did not cease to be independent in
00:19:45one day. First, the Kremlin learned to gather a
00:19:49majority in it, then created its own majority
00:19:52party, then changed the election rules, narrowed
00:19:56the space for competitors.
00:19:59And by 2022, the last thing the authorities had to
00:20:03fear in parliament disappeared from the hall: the voice
00:20:06of a deputy. And
00:20:07these
00:20:13changes were noticeable not only in the composition of
00:20:16the Duma or the decisions that this Duma made, but in the language
00:20:19parties used to talk to voters, about what they talked
00:20:23about with them. My colleague Ksenia Sokolyanskaya rewatched
00:20:26party campaign videos from the last 20 years, she will
00:20:30come to this studio now to tell what patterns she
00:20:33discovered. Order.
00:20:53The enemy must be destroyed, we will talk about how everything changed
00:20:56with Ksenia Sokolyanskaya, she is in our
00:20:59studio, Ksyusha, hello, hello, hello, first of all, I wanted to
00:21:03ask you, when you watched all these videos in your opinion, well,
00:21:07yes, what were your feelings, I understand, you probably wanted to answer this
00:21:11question right away, but I think we all roughly understand what a person can
00:21:14feel looking at all this, but what really caught your
00:21:18eye, what changes?
00:21:50this found confirmation
00:21:53in the language parties used to speak to
00:21:56their electorate, how they criticized their direct
00:22:00competitors, how they talked about some other
00:22:03rivals, probably the main conclusion I
00:22:07came to is that most of the videos I saw are absolutely
00:22:10impossible to imagine on modern
00:22:13television, we can start with what you already showed,
00:22:17there was the famous party Fatherland All Russia. which
00:22:20actually had a rainbow logo, to imagine
00:22:23such a thing today is absolutely, well, that is, it's clear that
00:22:26we are looking at all this from September 2026,
00:22:30then no one could imagine how far and in what direction
00:22:34the political life of the country would go, but this to say the least
00:22:38is surprising, I wanted to show you, for example, a video
00:22:42from 1995, if you remember there was such a party
00:22:45Forward Russia, this is the party of the former Minister of Finance Boris.
00:23:20Vote for the Forward Russia movement and Boris Fyodorov, well,
00:23:24the question is certainly interesting, I don't even know, what's at
00:23:27stake, what can be gained here, it's hard to say,
00:23:31I'm afraid that in this quiz no one has won since 1995,
00:23:35I would choose 50/50 and call a friend, I wouldn't have
00:23:37managed myself, well, with all that
00:23:40yes with all some
00:23:43naivety of the genre from
00:23:46today, actually this is quite a tough very...
00:24:20at one time various things came up, jumping ahead,
00:24:24I can say that after, for example, Alexei Navalny became a prominent
00:24:27political figure, the word corruption disappeared from all
00:24:31advertising campaigns, if before the CPRF, someone else, talked about it, and
00:24:35there were direct accusations against the current government that everything was
00:24:38plundered, I don't know, oligarchs are getting rich and something else, then after
00:24:42Navalny started using it so much in his
00:24:46lexicon, this word disappeared, but
00:24:48separately I want to say, probably, answering your
00:24:52question about the 1999 campaign, even then, I don't
00:24:55know how well you remember, I remember a little, I was 12
00:24:59then, absolutely,
00:25:01the TV was always on, all the videos
00:25:05we're about to show, I saw them one way or another, they said,
00:25:09this is the dirtiest campaign in Russia, because
00:25:12there was the Luzhkov- Primakov bloc, which just
00:25:15clashed with the newly appeared
00:25:19Unity. but there were generally a lot of interesting
00:25:22things, because in the SPS advertisement we see Sergey
00:25:26Kiriyenko, as the face, the young face of a young party together
00:25:30with Irina Khakamada and Boris Nemtsov, we see
00:25:33some completely insane and funny
00:25:37LDPR cartoons with Zhirinovsky, who is riding
00:25:41an elephant somewhere, in what
00:25:44images Zhirinovsky did not appear, the same Unity, about
00:25:47which you talked a lot, which I now... made
00:25:51a cartoon fairy tale about itself, in which there are different characters, there
00:25:54is some frog that symbolizes the CPRF,
00:25:58a bunny with an apple, a bandit wolf, this is...
00:29:02This is how this rhetoric changed, or rather, not how it changed, but
00:29:06how people gradually began to be silent, I prepared three
00:29:10videos, I chose the CPRF party for this, let's
00:29:13start with a video from 2007,
00:29:16vote for, vote for
00:29:19e, vote for
00:29:23e, for e, for e,
00:29:26vote,
00:29:32what's stuck, then
00:29:34the CPRF,
00:29:38I remember this video and I remember this video, and it seems to me that this
00:29:41was already in the era of Putin, and
00:29:452007, obviously yes, that without naming
00:29:48United Russia, they start pronouncing it, but it
00:29:52seems to me that from here it again seems that this
00:29:55is courage, let's watch the 2011 video, every fifth citizen
00:29:59of Russia lives below the poverty line.
00:30:03United Russia, answer!
00:30:05Why is rich Russia a country of poor
00:30:08people? Make them respect you.
00:30:12Vote for the real opposition, for
00:30:15the CPRF.
00:30:18I believe that all people can become kind and happy.
00:30:22I really want my dad's factory to work. Let my brother,
00:30:26dad and mom have their own apartment. May there never
00:30:30be war again on Earth. I dream that our family will have enough
00:30:34money to cure my sister, these are the dreams
00:30:37of our children, they must become reality,
00:30:40it's time to act, we are right, we
00:30:43can,
00:30:46CPRF. The last video, to be honest, I want to show
00:30:49right now? This is 2016,
00:30:52on Earth, there will never be war
00:30:56again, this is a direct quote, now we will show.