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00:00:00and lives below
00:00:07a country of poor people?
00:00:10Make them respect you. Vote for the real
00:00:14opposition, for
00:00:15the CPRF.
00:00:18I believe that all people can become kind and happy.
00:00:22I really want my dad's factory to start working. I wish my
00:00:26brother, dad, and mom would have their own apartment. On Earth, there will never
00:00:30be war again, I dream that our family will have enough
00:00:34money to cure my sister. These are the dreams of
00:00:37our children, they must become reality.
00:00:40It's time to act. We are right, we
00:00:43can.
00:00:46CPRF, the last video, honestly, I want to show it right
00:00:49now, this is 2016.
00:00:52On Earth, there will never be
00:00:56war again, this is a direct quote. Now we will show...
00:03:17Thank you very much Ksenia Sokolyanskaya, my colleague,
00:03:20the presenter, watched these videos
00:03:23for us, told us and presented such a retrospective to us,
00:03:27thank you, thank you.
00:03:30We continue our special broadcast, now we will talk about candidates with
00:03:34military experience, this time there are almost 200 of them, far from
00:03:38all of them, of course, will receive parliamentary mandates, but the trend itself
00:03:42is obvious: a military biography is becoming one of the ways
00:03:45to start a political career. These are the first elections to the State Duma after
00:03:49the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Which of
00:03:52the war participants can really enter parliament, which parties
00:03:56are betting on them, why does the Kremlin need military personnel in the state?
00:04:06United Russia's list for the State Duma elections has never
00:04:10challenged the system of international law as
00:04:13it does now. Here is this
00:04:16list. Well, in addition to the fact that the entire top five of the federal party
00:04:20list is under international sanctions, Lavrov,
00:04:23a war correspondent of a propaganda holding,
00:04:26number four on the list, wanted by international
00:04:30court Maria Lvova Belova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights,
00:04:33who is accused of participating in the deportation of children
00:04:37from Ukraine. She, it seems, is only proud of this. We
00:04:41ourselves adopted a child from Mariupol, yes. We
00:04:44thanks to you, little one. No, 15 years old. Now I know what it means
00:04:48to be the mother of a child from Donbas. In one of her last interviews, Lvova-Belova
00:04:52admitted that Russian authorities are taking measures to
00:04:55prevent Ukrainian volunteers from searching for children
00:04:59taken from Ukraine. On social networks. Now from the Ukrainian side, a whole army
00:05:03is working to find children who used to live in
00:05:06Ukraine. They actively monitor the social networks of these
00:05:09children, so we started blurring their faces in photos. So as not to
00:05:13put the families who took them in at risk.
00:05:16So, on the first page of United Russia's federal list,
00:05:20next to Lvova Belova, Vladislav
00:05:22Golovin. He is only 29, and he has already managed,
00:05:26it turns out, at 24, to participate in the occupation of the Ukrainian
00:05:29city of Mariupol, during the storming of which, according to various estimates, between
00:05:338,000 and 25,000 people could have
00:05:37died from the actions of Russian soldiers. In Mariupol, Golovin commanded one of the
00:05:40platoons of the 810th brigade of marine infantry. In December
00:05:442023, this brigade admitted on its Telegram channel
00:05:48to using chemical
00:05:51Golovin. It is known that in the battles for Mariupol, he lost a leg. Already
00:05:55in October of that year, he received the title of Hero of Russia. The fact is
00:05:59that Golovin became one of the most beloved heroes of Russian propaganda
00:06:03among military personnel. He was remembered, among other things, for his red backpack, which
00:06:06stood out from the military
00:06:10later said that this backpack was his. his
00:06:14comrades-in-arms simply stole it from one of the Ukrainian
00:06:16houses destroyed by fighting. Why was the backpack red? The guys, well, my
00:06:20fighters, my comrades in arms found it,
00:06:23well, somewhere in one of the residential
00:06:26accordingly gave it to me. The press calls Vladislav Glavin
00:06:30Putin's favorite. We wish health, comrade
00:06:33supreme commander, they met several
00:06:36times, thank you, Golovin is literally
00:06:39the new Russian military-political elite, these are...
00:06:42people who acquired their status solely
00:06:45due to the war against Ukraine. In total, United Russia is nominating
00:06:4976 participants of the invasion of
00:06:51Ukraine for the elections. Here are United Russia's candidates for Moscow,
00:06:55the thirty-seventh regional
00:06:58next to TV presenter Pyotr Tolstoy and hockey player Vladislav
00:07:02Tretiak, is Eduard
00:07:05двумя орденами за отвагу. Но за
00:07:07what? Novaya Gazeta Evropa
00:07:11пятой. спецназа ВДВ из Подмосковной Кубинки. Эта
00:07:15brigade participated in the occupation of Bucha, Kyiv Region, where Russian
00:07:19военные расстреливали людей прямо на улицах.
00:07:22Military personnel from the same brigade in March
00:07:26Ukrainians in the village of Dymer, some of whom were later taken to
00:07:29Russia. And Shonov is probably
00:07:33involved in war crimes by the Russian
00:07:37regional group of candidates for Dagestan. Second on the
00:07:40list, Inver Nabiev. In 2022, he, as part of the
00:07:44Fifth Separate Tank Brigade, participated in the occupation of the Chernobyl
00:07:48Nuclear Power Plant and the city of Pripyat,
00:07:51Soldiers from the unit where Nabiev served were accused of shooting civilians
00:07:55on the Zhytomyr highway. According to a Sunday Times investigation, they
00:07:58killed 27 people. The bodies of the dead were burned along with
00:08:02names associated with units
00:08:06that occupied the Kyiv
00:08:09Musagaleev from the 104th Airborne Assault
00:08:12Brigade of the Airborne Forces, number three of United Russia in the Orenburg region, and
00:08:16Sergey Kuzmenchuk from the airborne assault battalion
00:08:20of the 155th Marine
00:08:23regional group number one. It is interesting that in
00:08:26United Russia's list for the elections, there were not only those
00:08:29military personnel who probably killed in
00:08:33killing Russian
00:08:36twelfth place in the Moscow regional group
00:08:39is Alexander Filippovykh, he served as a political officer
00:08:42of the 1430th Motorized Rifle Regiment, created
00:08:45from mobilized personnel in the autumn of 2022. According to
00:08:49an Astro investigation, the commander of this regiment was suspected of killing
00:08:53his own subordinate with a body mine explosion to cover
00:08:56Filippovykh, according to investigators, knew about
00:09:00the murder and helped cover it up. Well, the
00:09:03electoral lists of United Russia are topped by famous and distinguished participants
00:09:07of the invasion of Ukraine, for example, Colonel-General
00:09:09Alexander Lapin, who participated in
00:09:13who, it is believed, was sent into retirement after the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into
00:09:17the Kursk region. He is running in Tatarstan. The commander
00:09:21of Chechen units, Adam
00:09:23Delimkhanov, is running in the district in
00:09:26Chechnya. And in occupied Donetsk, United
00:09:30Russia is predictably nominating Alexander
00:09:32Boroday, a veteran of the Russian war against Ukraine, who worked in
00:09:36the occupation authorities since 2014.
00:09:40United Russia tried to ensure that
00:09:43participants in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
00:09:47intra-party primaries, so-called
00:09:50veterans were given 25% of the votes, wrote
00:09:53Kommersant newspaper. How many percent will the Russian
00:09:56CEC add to them when counting the votes, will become
00:09:59clear from the new composition of the Russian
00:10:02State Duma. I am sure our warriors will
00:10:05not let us down, all of Russia is
00:10:08with them now.
00:10:14We continue our broadcast, Russian politician Dmitry Gudkov, former State Duma deputy,
00:10:18joins us. Dmitry,
00:10:20hello. Greetings. The Russian State Duma this
00:10:24time. will be elected, voting
00:10:27will take place for the first time after the full-scale Russian
00:10:31invasion of Ukraine, in this regard,
00:10:35it is obvious that there will be a fairly large number of
00:10:38people with military backgrounds in the State Duma, participants
00:10:41of the invasion, including. What do you think,
00:10:45why is this happening and what do you personally expect from this State
00:10:48Duma? No, I don't expect anything special, it
00:10:52will remain as it was, I think.
00:11:26312 or 318, what's the difference, it
00:11:30doesn't matter at all, there will be military, of course, because
00:11:33grandpa likes it, all parties will try to satisfy his
00:11:36whims, but I don't expect too many
00:11:40military personnel to pass, because grandpa once liked the
00:11:43collective Uralvagonzavod, then there were, I think, a few
00:11:47wonderful, by the way,
00:11:51person, Valery Trapeznikov, who very quickly.
00:12:55Let me clarify my answer to the previous question
00:12:58a bit, so that it is clear, and then I will answer your question.
00:13:02If some kind of opposition arises in the Duma, I don't
00:13:05expect it from some military or from
00:13:08someone, but this opposition will be led by some rather
00:13:11well-known deputy from United Russia, well, like the conditional
00:13:15Makar, who in reality
00:13:18understands all the intra-elite alignments
00:13:21much better than any military person.
00:13:25So, if he realizes that the time has come, then the deputies
00:13:29will quickly start changing their tune, even those we don't expect it from.
00:13:32So, what groups are there?
00:13:35Well, let's say that there are three groups around
00:13:38Putin: one is his friends,
00:13:42let's say, well, those who
00:13:45from childhood or from the Ozero cooperative, it doesn't matter, right, that
00:13:49is, entrepreneurs, like the conditional Rotenbergs, and so on. The second
00:13:52group is his colleagues, like
00:13:55Chemezov, Sechin, and so on. And the third is
00:13:58the so-called liberals, these
00:14:00finance. So, these are the three
00:14:04key forces. All the others, let's
00:14:08say, well, the security forces are his colleagues, that's the second group, and
00:14:11even among them, I don't think there will be agreement at the moment of a split,
00:14:15most likely the unification will happen around some figure, like
00:14:19Mishustin or Sobyanin, and
00:14:22to him, businessmen, oligarchs, and
00:14:25liberals, civilians like Kiriyenko, who are dissatisfied,
00:14:28well, that is, the conditional management class, who are dissatisfied with the dominance
00:14:32of the security forces, will definitely join him. Well, and
00:14:36some part of the special services. If such a split occurs,
00:14:39then it will happen, let's say,
00:14:43the division will occur into two parts, into
00:14:46hardliners and softliners. Softliners are those
00:14:49who will want to end
00:14:52the war and reintegrate into the world
00:14:55economy, understanding that without economic
00:14:59ties with developed countries, there are no
00:15:03So, but
00:15:05a split, so that viewers understand what
00:15:09it is, it's not when Sechin and Chemezov
00:15:12each other somewhere,
00:15:15like spiders in a jar or bulldogs under
00:15:19the rug. A split in the elites is when one
00:15:22part of the elites uses the public to win over another.
00:15:37That's when, then it's a real split in the elites. Well,
00:15:41for example, let's take some Spain,
00:15:44where even former hardliners became softliners and
00:15:48even later voted for all
00:15:51the reforms, against which they had spoken out just a
00:15:55few months before. Well, if such
00:15:59a split happens, then an opposition will appear in the Duma,
00:16:03but for some individual deputy to go against the whole system,
00:16:06no.
00:16:38I don't think they'll let him. Well, I believe that some
00:16:41single-mandate candidate could win if they counted honestly, because now
00:16:45essentially the elections with Yabloko would be
00:16:49about one thing: are you for war or against war? And it would be absolutely
00:16:52obvious, like a referendum, yes, well, yes, yes, and
00:16:56the anti-war position, it doesn't matter if it's with
00:16:58Yabloko, with a pear, or with someone else, right, if it was
00:17:02a more or less adequate anti-war party, there's no other besides Yabloko,
00:17:05so suddenly... Yabloko, without key
00:17:09leaders, quickly starts gaining popularity, we saw it in one
00:17:12week, because such a position is generally
00:17:15popular in society. So, of course,
00:17:19Yabloko would 100% fight United Russia for first
00:17:23place in fair elections, I emphasize. But since
00:17:26they didn't even let Yabloko into the unfair
00:17:29scared, no, they regulate
00:17:32everything. They saw risks in it that they didn't need. Why
00:17:36do you need... 6 weeks of legal campaigning
00:17:39against the war, against Putin, against,
00:17:42as it were, foreign policy? They don't need it.
00:17:45They understood and removed Yabloko in time,
00:17:49not even letting them conduct a more or less sensible
00:17:51campaign. The twentieth is coming,
00:17:55the CEC declares the elections valid, the CEC
00:17:58announces the winners, and so
00:18:01on and so forth, all these procedures are followed. What do you
00:18:04think will happen after the twentieth? It's clear that... it's a conditional
00:18:08date, all this is already on track, but nevertheless,
00:18:11what will be the trigger after the 20th? What in Russia
00:18:14will be different now?
00:18:17In my
00:18:21opinion, Putin will take the path of escalation, there will be
00:18:25some undeclared mobilization, most likely in
00:18:28the regions, not in large cities, when, for example,
00:18:31the security forces and military will act approximately
00:18:35like this. Well, someone who
00:18:39has somehow misbehaved before the state, drank alcoholic beverages
00:18:43or is a debtor or has been brought to administrative
00:18:46responsibility for some reason, such people will be quickly caught,
00:18:50so we need to warn
00:18:53people, of course, and I do not rule out that
00:18:57there will be some provocation in one of the countries
00:19:01of the European Union. I don't think it was for nothing that the head of the CIA came, he probably
00:19:04warned about some retaliatory actions.
00:19:46I don't think they will close the border for everyone, because
00:19:50it is important for the ruling class that their children
00:19:54can travel somewhere, but the border is closed for
00:19:58conscripts, it is simply closed, you come with
00:20:00a passport, the passport is scanned, the system gives a
00:20:04red flag that you are drafted, you are not allowed to leave anywhere. This
00:20:08is absolutely enough for that, so that,
00:20:12so to speak, those who should not leave, do not leave, mm-hmm.
00:20:16As for prices, yes, I think they will release them, because
00:20:19the fuel crisis will continue, now
00:20:23approximately somewhere on the market there was a
00:20:27loss of a quarter,
00:20:31meaning capacity, somewhere minus 25% in the
00:20:34gasoline market, and in order to...
00:20:37solve the problem, well, it has long been calculated, if you
00:20:41increase the price,
00:20:43by 50%, I think, then your demand falls by
00:20:46if you increase by...
00:22:20now they are controlled even more strictly by the presidential
00:22:23administration and law enforcement agencies, that is, all of Putin's parties, in
00:22:27your opinion, what should
00:22:31to vote, regardless of whether it's for Yabloko or not, but to vote
00:22:34end,
00:22:37those who truly want a different development for
00:22:41Russia, in your opinion, what is left for this person
00:22:44to do now? Well, if there are
00:22:48Yabloko candidates in single-mandate districts, then... obviously, supporting these
00:22:51candidates is a perfectly normal strategy, but do not
00:22:55expect them to win, because most likely
00:22:58they won't be allowed anywhere. So, if there are no such candidates,
00:23:02and you only have a list of all of Putin's
00:23:05pro-war parties, then it's better not to participate, right,
00:23:09it's better not to participate in
00:23:12the lottery, but to come, take
00:23:15the ballot, spoil it, make it invalid, come out at the same
00:23:18time, that is, just as... Dmitry, thank
00:23:59you very much for this conversation. Russian politician, former State Duma deputy, Dmitry
00:24:03Gudkov was a guest of the broadcast. Thank
00:24:05you.
00:24:08And what do Russians themselves think about these elections? Do they consider
00:24:11voting important, do they intend to go to the polls, and do they
00:24:14believe that their vote can influence anything? The publication
00:24:18"Sotevision" asked about this.
00:24:50I don't understand, that is, politics is already so incomprehensible
00:24:54that ordinary people simply don't understand
00:24:57it. What kind of party is United Russia now? Let it
00:25:01remain, it won't
00:25:05that's it. Well, just not for United Russia, I
00:25:08generally don't go to elections,
00:25:12why not, I don't see the point, and I don't even
00:25:15have. But do you believe in elections, that they can do something?
00:25:30The outgoing Duma began this convocation even before the full-scale
00:25:33Russian invasion of Ukraine, and ended as a wartime
00:25:37parliament, with a record number
00:25:40prohibitions, repressive
00:25:43formalization of war. What exactly changed in the eighth convocation
00:25:47legacy...
00:26:02The Duma became the first wartime convocation and a champion of
00:26:06legislative production, with a result of
00:26:092980 federal laws,
00:26:12an absolute maximum among all convocations. Perhaps this is no longer
00:26:16a runaway printer, but a full-fledged printing
00:26:19press. The special military operation, defense, and security became the central
00:26:22topic of the eighth convocation; it was this Duma
00:26:26on February 15, 2022,
00:26:29that appealed to Vladimir Putin
00:26:45after which the Federation Council authorized the use of Russian
00:26:49armed forces outside the country. We will strive for the demilitarization
00:26:53and denazification
00:26:56announced the start of a special military operation, which has been going on for the fifth
00:27:00year and which Russians are not allowed
00:27:03which they can be fined or even
00:27:05посадить,
00:27:09Citizens should also be obliged to the Duma, which in
00:27:13March 2022 adopted a package of amendments
00:27:16establishing responsibility for so-called military fakes,
00:27:19discrediting the army and
00:27:21authorities.
00:27:25Deputies prescribed social guarantees and payments, benefits for
00:27:28military personnel, veterans, and members
00:27:32related to military service, in particular, they made conscription
00:27:36the boundaries of the conscription age,
00:27:39introduced a unified register of military accounting, various
00:27:43sanctions for draft dodgers, allowed prisoners to exchange
00:27:46prison for war and generally go to the front from under investigation
00:27:49without waiting for a trial. Thanks to the new laws, one can face trial, for example, for voluntarily
00:27:53penalties for disobeying
00:27:56orders and for unauthorized abandonment of a unit
00:28:00have been significantly tightened. The terms for
00:28:03sabotage and treason have increased, and now criminal liability for sabotage
00:28:07begins at 14
00:28:10be recognized as almost anything, from photographing gravestones to
00:28:14In general, deputies spent
00:28:17a lot of time fighting enemies, external and internal,
00:28:21they adopted laws on numerous restrictions for
00:28:24foreign agents, opposition- minded relocants, and
00:28:27expanded the powers of the FSB, which, in
00:28:30particular, was allowed to create.
00:28:55In the fall of 2022, deputies unanimously
00:28:58ratified treaties on the accession of the so-called
00:29:05Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to Russia, which required
00:29:08a large-scale restructuring of the legal space. Due to the war
00:29:12and sanctions, the legislative activity of the eighth convocation of the Duma sometimes
00:29:15resembled crisis management. Laws were often
00:29:18adopted in packages and in an expedited manner, and
00:29:22the quality of legal texts declined. Migration
00:29:25issues became an independent political priority of this
00:29:28convocation of the Duma, especially in the last session of the convocation. Massive
00:29:31tightening of migration rules began in
00:29:35at the Moscow Crocus
00:29:37City Hall.
00:29:42Since then, the State Duma has adopted at least thirty laws related to
00:29:46tightening control over the entry, stay,
00:29:49and labor activities
00:29:52include separate amendments. Social policy in the eighth
00:29:55convocation was increasingly linked to supporting families, demographics, and
00:29:59assisting participants in the so-called special military operation. Deputies
00:30:03extended the maternity capital program until 2030 and
00:30:06at the same time adopted laws prohibiting child-free ideology, prohibiting
00:30:10LGBT propaganda, prohibiting
00:30:13the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender
00:30:17Now, under the pretext of fighting
00:30:20fraudsters, WhatsApp and Telegram are being blocked in Russia, but fraudsters
00:30:24have mastered VKontakte, which is a national messenger for
00:30:28its widespread voluntary-compulsory implementation,
00:30:30for which, by the way, the State Duma adopted
00:30:33many amendments to various laws. Summing up the work of
00:30:36the eighth convocation of the State Duma, its speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called
00:30:40reproaches that it is aimed at prohibitions
00:30:43inappropriate, because deputies adopt laws exclusively at the
00:30:46request of citizens, and those very prohibitive measures, according
00:30:50to Volodin, are actually protection for
00:30:53the younger generation and adults who have gone astray.
00:30:56astray.