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00:00:00the so-called SVO. Deputies extended the
00:00:03maternity capital program until 2030 and at the
00:00:06same time adopted laws on the prohibition of dialogue, the prohibition
00:00:10of LGBT propaganda, the prohibition of gender change and the
00:00:13prohibition of adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender
00:00:17change is allowed. Now, under the pretext of fighting
00:00:20fraudsters in Russia, WhatsApp and Telegram are blocked, but
00:00:24fraudsters have perfectly mastered Max, this is a national
00:00:27messenger for ubiquitous voluntary coercion. reproaches that
00:00:41it is aimed at prohibitions, because deputies adopt
00:00:45laws exclusively at the request of citizens, and those very
00:00:48prohibitive measures, according to Volodin, are actually
00:00:52protection for the younger generation of adults who
00:00:55went astray. We continue our broadcast, we have electoral
00:01:00expert Stanislav Andreichuk, former co-chairman of the Golos movement for the protection of voters' rights.
00:01:03Stanislav, hello.
00:01:06hello. Is there
00:01:10any way in Russia now to control
00:01:13this electoral process that we will observe?
00:01:17Well, there always is, in this sense little has changed, everything
00:01:21depends on the desire of people and the readiness of political parties
00:01:24and candidates to give directions to polling stations, since we have
00:01:28a lot of elections. Now, in addition to the State Duma,
00:01:31elections are being held in almost half of the country's regions for regional parliaments,
00:01:35plus various local, local elections, several thousand campaigns, so
00:01:38there are many candidates, and people need them, so
00:01:42the only question is if there are people
00:01:46willing to observe, they can easily
00:01:49contact these candidates and parties, but these are party
00:01:52observers, and independent ones directly,
00:01:56never, listen, this has not been the case since 2005. And...
00:02:30communicating with people, yes, who received training
00:02:33materials, but in fact, most of the observers, whom
00:02:37we call independent, are people who
00:02:40took, took some training materials, found them themselves on
00:02:44the Internet, including on Golos, went to the parties
00:02:48and signed up through them, in this sense,
00:02:51little changes, and moreover, even the training materials have hardly
00:02:55become obsolete in a year, you can use the old ones, and
00:02:58is there any fundamental difference in terms of control of the result between
00:03:02voting on the first or last day, since this is a
00:03:04three-day vote, by paper or,
00:03:08for example, using electronic
00:03:10voting?
00:03:12If you want to maximize the security of your
00:03:16own vote, then of course on the third day there is less chance that something
00:03:20will happen to it, of course on paper there is less chance that something
00:03:23will happen to it, the question is, in fact, the main question is where you
00:03:27vote, because everything depends very much on the region.
00:03:30Relatively speaking, in the Irkutsk region, in the Tomsk region, in
00:03:33Novosibirsk, in 3 days, yes, in most
00:03:37of these regions nothing will happen to the votes,
00:03:41and somewhere in Chechnya, in
00:03:45Tatarstan,
00:03:47in Kuzbass, there will be big problems there, we even have
00:03:51territories within one region, well, different parts of the region
00:03:54can differ, within St. Petersburg there can be a completely
00:03:57different situation, and if a person were... and by and large,
00:04:01well, in fact, the story with the boycott
00:04:03is
00:04:06not about politics, by and large,
00:04:10because there is no political action in it, and
00:04:14it is unknown why a person did not come to the polling station, he just did not want to,
00:04:18he had some things to do, he did not know about the elections, he likes everything,
00:04:22or he is protesting in this way, but
00:04:25does this mean that they will draw whatever they want and is there any
00:04:28point in going then?
00:04:32We never, listen, never does it mean that
00:04:35they will draw whatever they want, there are regions, of course, where they will draw whatever they
00:04:39want, especially without opposition, there are regions
00:04:42where they will not draw whatever they want, even, well, even there will be
00:04:45no such command, and the political situation is completely
00:04:48different in different parts of the country, of course,
00:04:52observation affects this story, and of course, when
00:04:55there are observers, then the election commission is subject to
00:04:58additional external... influence in the sense that it is, well,
00:05:02harder for them to falsify something, if such
00:05:06a command is given to them, but
00:05:08in general, if you control it, then you can deal with this story...
00:05:14These elections to the State Duma are the first after the start
00:05:17of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, in this regard, I would like to ask
00:05:21you, in the occupied territories, the Russian
00:05:24authorities are preparing, among other things, large-scale
00:05:26elections, is there any specificity here, can
00:05:30this be controlled in any way, how do observers,
00:05:33including international ones, react to
00:05:35this?
00:05:38Well, of course, these territories are difficult to control,
00:05:41of course they... rather refer to precisely those
00:05:44parts of this huge
00:05:47space, where elections will be held,
00:05:51which, well, are rather falsified, yes, and there massively
00:05:54falsified, and there is no
00:05:58way to properly control anything, well, formally
00:06:01there is, but in fact there is not, so you have to understand that
00:06:05there, of course, the result will be largely drawn,
00:06:08what can really change after
00:06:11the conditional...
00:07:42then, of course, it becomes increasingly
00:07:44difficult for the authorities, and in fact, all these additional
00:07:48tightenings of the screws also speak
00:07:51of this, I think that opposition,
00:07:54rejection, I won't say opposition, but rejection of what
00:07:58is happening is gradually growing in society in very different segments of the political
00:08:01spectrum, not only among those who are categorically against the war, but
00:08:05also among those who are generally indifferent to these events,
00:08:08yes, who are concerned about some everyday things, yes, among those who may be for the war. In the program, Stanislav
00:08:43Andreichuk, former co-chairman of the Golos movement, electoral
00:08:46expert, thank you, thank
00:08:50you.
00:08:52Well, while the Central Election Commission is just preparing to count the votes, the results of these
00:08:56elections, it seems, are already known to artificial intelligence. Users
00:09:00in Russia ask Yandex's voice assistant Alisa who won
00:09:04the State Duma elections, which have not even taken place yet, and
00:09:07receive a very specific answer. Well, of course, artificial
00:09:10intelligence does not know the future and does not... Rosseti can make mistakes and simply make up
00:09:14facts, but in this company even such a mistake sounds
00:09:18especially ironic: there are no official results yet, the question of
00:09:22who will win, for many, seems to have long ceased to be
00:09:25a question. Alisa, how did
00:09:29the elections in Russia in 2026
00:09:31go?
00:09:33The State Duma elections were held from September 18 to 20, 2026.
00:09:37Voting was by a mixed system. 19 parties
00:09:40participated, who
00:09:44won?
00:09:47United Russia won, receiving 324
00:09:50seats.
00:09:52In what year were the elections that we are talking about
00:09:55now?
00:09:57In 2026. And what year
00:10:01is it now? Today is August
00:10:0426, 2026. And why do you
00:10:08know how the elections went, if they haven't happened yet?
00:10:21Alisa, who won the State Duma elections in 2020.
00:10:25sixth year?
00:10:28United Russia received a constitutional majority
00:10:31of 324 seats in the
00:10:33State Duma.
00:10:35Well, very soon it will be possible to check how accurate Alisa's information was.
00:10:39Well, in conclusion, once again, one
00:10:42of the main questions of this broadcast: what will change in
00:10:45Russia after the elections to the State Duma? We have collected
00:10:48the answers of our current interlocutors, politicians, experts
00:10:52and campaign participants. Let's recall their opinions again.
00:10:55Putin, the collective Putin, simply has no other options
00:10:58but to tighten
00:11:01the screws,
00:11:03to delve deeper
00:11:06into the regions in search of records for the war, one way or
00:11:09another it will be, if
00:11:13the war continues, it will continue,
00:11:17the blood tax will have to be collected, I think they will not close the border for everyone, because
00:11:21for the ruling...
00:11:46since we are observing the process
00:11:49of Chechenization of Russia,
00:11:51self-awareness
00:11:54in... the general State Duma may be, because, well,
00:11:58how it was in 1917, when
00:12:01still in 1917, when
00:12:05the State Duma still acted as a subject, that is,
00:12:08it, among other things, insisted on the resignation,
00:12:11for example, of the emperor, the question is who will be able
00:12:15to gather, which of the politicians potentially or political
00:12:18forces will be able to gather the widest possible coalition,
00:12:22of such discontented people from different spectra there
00:12:25of the political spectrum.
00:12:28Today, throughout the broadcast, we talked about the elections to the State Duma and
00:12:32regional campaigns, about who participates in them under what
00:12:35conditions, who was not allowed to vote, how the Duma itself is changing,
00:12:39and what these elections can
00:14:00country has long become a common
00:14:03occurrence.
00:14:06Two operational officers were present in the office, who
00:14:09beat him, in fact, they dictated
00:14:13the text of the testimony he gave as a witness. Despite
00:14:16being a minor, the girl was only 17 years old, she and five
00:14:20others arrested were sent to a pre-trial detention center until the verdict
00:14:23was announced.
00:25:47or a repetition of history from opium to
00:25:50heroin, from Oxycontin to fentanyl, some of the most
00:25:53deadly drugs in the world started out as
00:25:56medicine. Let's see how yesterday's miracle drugs turn into
00:26:00today's global catastrophes.
00:26:03Imagine you walk into a pharmacy with a common cold, they give you
00:26:06heroin. Nowadays it sounds insane, but a century ago people
00:26:10actually took heroin for coughs, even children.
00:26:13Today we know it's a dangerous, heavy
00:26:15drug.
00:26:18What if I told you that the same thing is happening today with
00:26:21substances similar to heroin, opioids? It all starts
00:26:25with the promise of pain relief, but then the situation takes a disturbing
00:26:28turn. From ancient opium to modern synthetic opioids.
00:26:41The history
00:26:42of opioids,
00:26:46but let's start at the very beginning, with the bright red poppy
00:26:49flower, the source of opium. The god
00:26:52of dreams, for millennia people
00:26:56have been getting high from this plant of joy, it was used for
00:26:59medical purposes for pain relief. and simply for
00:27:03pleasure, they drank opium in the form of tinctures, chewed resin or inhaled
00:27:06smoke. This seemingly unremarkable flower became the cause
00:27:10of an important turning point in the 19th century, the Opium
00:27:13Wars. We could film a whole program just about this chapter
00:27:16of history. Britain imported opium from India to China,
00:27:20where it was banned. Very soon addiction gripped the entire
00:27:23society. China tried to stop this flow. Then
00:27:26Britain launched a war that served the interests of opium smugglers
00:27:30and won it. Since then, China... had to loosen its control over
00:27:33foreign trade, including drug imports. The Opium Wars led to
00:27:37a massive crisis, changing social life, economy, and the balance
00:27:40of political power. From a medical point of view, opium
00:27:44had one important drawback. Its strength of action was almost impossible
00:27:48to predict, because it was extracted directly from the plant. This continued until
00:27:51this man appeared, Friedrich Serturner,
00:27:55a student of a German pharmacist managed to isolate the active substance.
00:27:58He named it morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. In
00:28:02combination with the invention of the hollow needle by Irish doctor Francis
00:28:06Rynd, this revolutionized surgery: patients could get rid of
00:28:10excruciating pain in a matter of minutes. And many found
00:28:13it too good to be true. By
00:28:16the 1870s, it became clear that morphine was addictive.
00:28:20This was especially evident during and after
00:28:23the American Civil War: thousands of soldiers fell victim to the so-called
00:28:27soldier's disease, in other words,
00:28:28morphinism. If only it existed.
00:29:02not as strong an addiction, ironically they even tried to treat
00:29:06morphine addiction with it, but heroin did not live up to these hopes,
00:29:10patients developed tolerance to the drug, the longer the
00:29:14treatment lasted, the more they had to take it. By
00:29:17the 1920s, the rise of heroin addiction was
00:29:20recorded in several regions, primarily in Europe,
00:29:24the US, China, and Egypt. The drug's reputation changed dramatically,
00:29:27especially in the states where Russian narratives linked drugs to
00:29:30minorities. Opium with Chinese immigrants,
00:29:34cocaine with the African American community. These stereotypes
00:29:37fueled fear. In 1924,
00:29:40any use of heroin was banned.
00:29:44Heroin became much harder to obtain legally, but
00:29:47the addiction did not disappear. And this meant colossal profits for
00:29:51black market dealers. Approximately a decade later, an important
00:29:54historical event practically cut off access even to illegal supplies
00:29:58of heroin. World War II began, but another
00:30:01path opened up. The era of synthetic
00:30:05opioids. Previously, drugs such as heroin and
00:30:08morphine were obtained from poppies, but what if you could create
00:30:11a painkiller in a laboratory, without regard for
00:30:15soil quality, labor, weather, or time. Synthetic
00:30:19opioids enter the scene. Among the
00:30:21first, most zealous developers, as before, were the Germans. On the
00:30:25eve of the war, they intensified research in the field
00:30:28of synthetic opioids. After all, a country entering a war
00:30:32cannot afford to rely on morphine imported from abroad. When
00:30:36the war ended, the victorious countries took all the research results and
00:30:40patents. Let's fast forward 50 years and encounter, perhaps,
00:30:44the most scandalous case in the history of opioids, a case that laid
00:30:47the foundation for the opioid crisis that has cost hundreds of thousands
00:30:51of Americans their lives over the past three decades. In
00:30:541996, Purdue Pharma, owned by the
00:30:58Sackler family, launched its product.