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00:00:00of the military committee, which is ready to help with finding a lawyer
00:00:03and writing a legal
00:00:05opinion, and if something needs to be picked up in
00:00:09the country, to help provide support,
00:00:12and there are several such NGOs, like ours, and we always
00:00:16tell people to please contact us, we will try to
00:00:19help you. Yes, thank you very much for your
00:00:21explanation. Margarita Kuchusheva, lawyer for the Consul Anti-War Committee of Russia project, was
00:00:25on the line with the "A Person Has the Right" program.
00:00:29право".
00:00:33Talked to an acquaintance via video call, used the wrong
00:00:36emoji in a building chat, quarreled with a neighbor at the
00:00:40dacha, all of this in Russia can now become a reason for
00:00:43a denunciation. Your words and seemingly harmless
00:00:47actions can lead to a fine or even a prison
00:00:50sentence. The so-called epidemic of denunciations in
00:00:53Russia, which erupted after the start of the war with Ukraine, is attracting
00:00:57attention not only from human rights defenders.
00:01:00notes that the number of calls to their trust hotlines is steadily
00:01:04growing. In 2025 alone, there were almost 147,000 of them,
00:01:07one and a half times more than two
00:01:11years earlier. Who, and why, in Russia denounces possible violators of
00:01:15numerous prohibitive
00:01:18laws adopted after the invasion of Ukraine, and
00:01:21what this leads to, we will tell you in our
00:01:24report:
00:01:30full-scale war with Ukraine, Russians are increasingly complaining not
00:01:33only about salaries, utilities, and fraudsters, but also about
00:01:37each other. In 2022, the prosecutor's office received
00:01:40more than 5 million complaints; last year, almost
00:01:448 million. The FSB also receives more requests. In
00:01:472 years, calls to their trust hotline have increased by almost one and a half
00:01:51times. They complain about neighbors, acquaintances,
00:01:54and relatives, and often such complaints lead to fines or
00:01:57even imprisonment. One of
00:02:00the most recent stories happened in Vladivostok, where on August
00:02:0431, a schoolboy's mother, Ksenia, posted a video about
00:02:07how children in school number 61 were ordered
00:02:09to wear a chevron with a flying drone, although last year
00:02:13it had a feather against the background of the Russian flag. Other
00:02:16parents in chats also called the new design strange. When
00:02:20journalists wrote about this, the school director said that the chevron was needed
00:02:24only for one specialized class, and then she wrote a statement to the police
00:02:27against Ksenia. A provocation
00:02:31aimed at discrediting the educational institution exactly on
00:02:35Knowledge Day and the first day of the Eastern Economic Forum.
00:02:38The director claims that the video shows someone else's chevron, although photos
00:02:42from the assembly, where these chevrons are visible, are posted on the school's
00:02:45own public page. Ksenia has already given an explanation to the precinct police officer, and now she
00:02:49faces a fine for unreliable information. After the start of the
00:02:53war, denunciation became an easy way to settle scores, and the reason could
00:02:56be an emoji in a building chat or carelessly
00:03:00spoken words in front of someone. St. Petersburg resident Denis Timofeev,
00:03:04for example, on New Year's Eve called an acquaintance on video
00:03:07and talked about the army. The acquaintance recorded the conversation and handed it over to
00:03:11the police. The defense argued that it was a private
00:03:14call, and Timofeev did not publicly disseminate information
00:03:18discrediting the army, but the court decided that other people could have
00:03:21heard the words and fined Timofeev 30,000
00:03:25rubles. In Rostov-on-Don, someone from the residents posted a video in the building chat
00:03:29of a Russian military vehicle firing a volley, and
00:03:32Sergey Karavainy left a comment with a poop emoji. He explained that
00:03:36he was unhappy with whoever posted
00:03:39the video, not the army, but a neighbor wrote a complaint and the court imposed
00:03:43the same fine on him. Often, such statements are driven by
00:03:47old quarrels; in that case, everything might not end with just a fine.
00:03:51Hairdresser Anna Alexandrova from Pushkin had
00:03:54a long-standing conflict over land with her dacha neighbor. It was
00:03:57this neighbor who told the police about her anti-war posts and
00:04:01private messages. Alexandrova was sentenced to 5 years and
00:04:05two months in a penal colony for fakes about the army. In her last
00:04:09word, she said: The history of denunciations in Russia has
00:04:12a centuries-old history, and the history of denunciations out of selfish
00:04:15motives is a topic that has been repeatedly
00:04:19covered not only by lawyers, legal scholars, but also by classics
00:04:22of our national literature. Sometimes, people denounce relatives,
00:04:26Anna Stepanova, who protested against the garbage...
00:04:30in Shies, and then left Russia and became a
00:04:33foreign agent. Her cousin, contract soldier Oleg
00:04:36Gorin, wrote a statement to the police. In TikTok, he explained
00:04:40why: I wrote to the police so that she would lose
00:04:43it, not sell it, and the money would not go to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine or into
00:04:47her pocket for propaganda and slander. She herself thinks
00:04:50that her brother simply wants to take the apartment for himself, but no one has taken it
00:04:53from her yet. And also, such accusations turned out to be a very convenient
00:04:57way to eliminate business competitors. Paying for publications
00:05:01in Western publications has long been common practice for
00:05:05Russian entrepreneurs, but previously, they ordered
00:05:08laudatory texts about themselves for PR and reputation.
00:05:11Now, as the Russian BBC Service reports, they are increasingly
00:05:15ordering compromising materials against competitors. For example, in August
00:05:182025, the EU Reporter website published
00:05:22an interview with the former head of Plyos, businessman Alexey Shevtsov,
00:05:25where he allegedly called what was happening in Ukraine
00:05:29war crimes. Shevtsov says that he did not
00:05:32give any interview, and he explains its appearance by his
00:05:35conflict over the Fortetsiya Rus hotel.
00:05:38The expertise, which the BBC refers to, admits that the voice
00:05:42was generated by a neural network, but in October, the Ministry of Justice still recognized
00:05:46Shevtsov as a foreign agent, and his lawyers believe that it was
00:05:50because of this interview. In the same month, the court, at the suit
00:05:53of the prosecutor's office, confiscated from him in favor of the state more than
00:05:56150 real estate objects, shares in companies,
00:06:00and income totaling more than a billion rubles, having decided that Shevtsov
00:06:03built his business by taking advantage of his position as head of the city. In
00:06:07late August, the Cassation Court upheld
00:06:09this decision.
00:06:15This is the program "A Person Has the Right." My name is Mariana Torochashnikova. Via
00:06:19video link with our studio is lawyer Valeria Vitushkina. Valeria,
00:06:23hello! Hello. Please
00:06:26explain, from a legal
00:06:29point of view, what
00:06:32does the word "denunciation" mean? Well, it sounds very
00:06:35unpleasant. "Snitch," "denunciations." But
00:06:39legally, what is it? Generally, in the
00:06:42Criminal Procedure Code, there is
00:06:45such a basis for conducting a check,
00:06:48then, as an option, for the criminal
00:06:52case itself, as a
00:06:54statement about a crime. That is, in general,
00:06:58if you try to fit it into
00:07:00some legal framework, it could
00:07:04be such a statement about a crime. Of course, in
00:07:07general, "denouncer" is not a legal category, because these are just
00:07:11people who...
00:07:43I think we should immediately define
00:07:46that denunciations come in
00:07:49many, many varieties. Today,
00:07:52we will probably talk about
00:07:55denunciations in political cases,
00:07:59when people are eventually prosecuted for
00:08:02words or complain that someone
00:08:06expresses, for example, an anti-war
00:08:09position, and most often, evidence
00:08:12is still attached to such denunciations, because people
00:08:16directly try, for some
00:08:18reasons (we can discuss them), to record certain
00:08:21violations. But on the other hand, if the
00:08:25police, the Investigative Committee, and the FSB have a goal
00:08:29to prosecute someone for something, they will only need
00:08:33some pretext, even if no evidence
00:08:36is attached to the denunciation statement, and it will be simply
00:08:40enough to have some reference,
00:08:43statement, and so on. They will conduct everything themselves,
00:08:47find everything themselves. They are fine with that. You said
00:08:50that there are people who
00:08:54specifically provide evidence
00:08:57confirming their words. Who are these
00:09:00people? Who generally writes denunciations in
00:09:03Russia most often, and why? I think
00:09:07we all know that there are professional
00:09:10denunciators, sometimes even people
00:09:14from state structures, some deputies,
00:09:17most often these are, of course, deputies of United Russia, these can be
00:09:21State Duma deputies, these can be deputies of some
00:09:24regional legislative bodies, they
00:09:28simply prove their loyalty
00:09:32to the system. For example, when last year there was this
00:09:36big case against the Stop Time group, we all
00:09:40eventually found out that the prosecution
00:09:51began with a statement
00:09:55from a deputy. This is the most banal, typical example of a denunciation. There are, of course, denunciations from ordinary people who, honestly, are not even
00:09:58paid for it. Well, I mean, I say "even," but maybe
00:10:02it could be explained by money, but
00:10:05some people truly believe in it, some
00:10:09are simply afraid that they will be arrested. They monitor
00:10:13their neighbors, surroundings, and various chats, parent and building chats, and so
00:10:17on. Everyone has their own values.
00:10:19Are law enforcement agencies obligated to react to such
00:10:23denunciations in which... for example, there is no evidence
00:10:26or to anonymous messages? How does this
00:10:29story work? From the point of view of the law,
00:10:32we have no difference
00:10:35whether a statement is anonymous or not. So even
00:10:38anonymous ones should be
00:10:41considered. But in any case, you need to understand that
00:10:45anonymous statements in Russia, well, they are not anonymous, because if you submit them
00:10:49from within Russia, it's very easy to track who actually
00:10:52submitted them. Now, regarding evidence, again, it costs the security forces
00:10:56nothing to
00:11:00assess, as it were, at the outset, whether there is a
00:11:03basis for verification. The other question is that very
00:11:06often, for example, people come to me with the question, "I was
00:11:09threatened that a denunciation would be written
00:11:13against me for my post on Telegram, what should
00:11:16I do?" And I always basically tell people that it's
00:11:20not a fact that the denunciation will proceed.
00:11:24That is, I
00:11:55if there is some threat, I by no means
00:11:59say that one should take risks, because one needs to evaluate one's
00:12:02safety, because the situation in Russia is very, very
00:12:05dangerous. In general, as we have said many
00:12:08times, these posts on the Internet are
00:12:11ongoing offenses. For example, for
00:12:15discrediting, the statute of limitations is 3 months, and how is it
00:12:18counted? It is counted not from the moment you wrote
00:12:22the post, but from the moment the security forces
00:12:25discovered the post. That is, if, for example, someone wrote a post in May
00:12:292022, unfortunately, even now
00:12:31they can be held accountable for it. But you
00:12:35can, as it were, stop the statute of
00:12:38limitations if you delete the post. So
00:12:42if you are worried that you have become a victim of denunciation,
00:12:45delete it. If your offense,
00:12:48the offense is related to a publication on
00:12:51the Internet, you can either delete the post,
00:12:55close the account, but only then will it help if
00:12:59you know all your subscribers precisely. But if it is,
00:13:02for example, connected with some public action, for example, you went out
00:13:06with a poster, then unfortunately, nothing can be done.
00:13:09Can you tell me, if a
00:13:12person was denounced, but
00:13:16in fact they were slandered, do they still have
00:13:19any opportunities to be rehabilitated in Russia, to prosecute this slanderer?
00:13:22привлечь этого клеветника.
00:13:55in grave and especially grave crimes, that is, roughly speaking,
00:13:59but at the same time, what is important, these actions must be committed
00:14:02publicly, that is, yes,
00:14:05there is very, very little practice that
00:14:09if someone wrote a statement to
00:14:12a state body, but the statement turned out
00:14:15to be false, then one person, I read this court
00:14:18decision, was held accountable for libel.
00:14:22But this case was against a person
00:14:26who filed a complaint against an official. It is difficult
00:14:29for me to imagine that an ordinary citizen would be
00:14:32protected. As for a separate article on
00:14:35knowingly false
00:14:37denunciation,
00:14:39the investigator who will conduct the check must
00:14:43establish that the denunciation was
00:14:46knowingly false, meaning not just false, that the person
00:14:50made a mistake, but that this person knowingly understood that
00:14:53what, for example, the other
00:14:56person posted, is not a crime.
00:14:59Well, in general, it turns out that practically
00:15:03the chances of rehabilitation, in such a case,
00:15:05are very small. In your
00:15:09opinion, has there
00:15:11really been an epidemic of denunciations
00:15:15in the country after Russia started
00:15:18such an aggressive war in Ukraine, after
00:15:22February 2022, or has it already
00:15:25begun to decline? There are definitely more of them
00:15:28since the start of the war, and I
00:15:31wouldn't say it's declining, that is, we can clearly see that
00:15:34many people are contacting us about denunciations. That
00:15:38is, as I said, not all denunciations
00:15:42go anywhere, but certainly
00:15:45many people are writing about being told that there
00:15:48will be a denunciation regarding their actions.
00:15:51So I definitely don't see any decline. Thank
00:15:54you very much for your explanation, Valeria Vitushkina, lawyer, was on
00:15:58the line with the program, "A Person Has the
00:16:00Right."
00:16:05The court in Novgorod delivered, perhaps,
00:16:07the harshest sentence in modern Russia in a case of online stalking and bullying
00:16:11that nearly led to the death of a young girl.
00:16:15Twenty-one-year-old Mikhail Shalimov was sentenced to 12
00:16:18years in a strict-regime penal colony. After a conflict in
00:16:21a game chat, he relentlessly harassed a schoolgirl
00:16:25from Ufa for months, sending her threats, ordering night deliveries to her
00:16:28home, publishing pornographic materials in the name
00:16:31of her relatives, and driving her to attempt suicide. According to
00:16:35the Internet Development Fund, every
00:16:37fourth Russian teenager has encountered insults, bullying, or
00:16:40harassment online. However, in
00:16:44Russian legislation, issues of countering cyberbullying and
00:16:48cyberstalking, and punishment for them, are not
00:16:50addressed.
00:16:58It all started with an online game in spring 2024.
00:17:0121-year-old Mikhail Shalimov met a ninth-grader from
00:17:04Ufa in a Minecraft-dedicated community. A conflict
00:17:08arose between them. Shalimov threatened the schoolgirl with problems and demanded
00:17:12a public apology. Diana refused. After that,
00:17:15Shalimov began bullying the girl online, sending threats to her and her
00:17:19family, creating accounts in Diana's name and posting, for example,
00:17:22videos of animal abuse there. Gradually, the bullying
00:17:26extended beyond the internet. Shalimov ordered couriers to the Ufa resident's address
00:17:29in the middle of the night, wrote nasty things in the building chat in Diana's
00:17:33mother's name, hung up ads around the city with the schoolgirl's
00:17:36photo and the caption "Wanted: Animal Abuser." In Diana's name, he called the
00:17:39police and reported bomb threats at a school, a shopping center, and
00:17:42an enterprise. According to the criminal case materials, Shalimov
00:17:46demanded that the schoolgirl commit suicide, promising to stop the harassment only after that.
00:17:49Diana tried to do it. The Novgorod District Court found
00:17:53Shalimov guilty of driving a minor to attempt
00:17:56suicide and organizing knowingly false reports of
00:17:59terrorist acts. In Veliky Novgorod, Shalimov had already been tried under other
00:18:03articles for lewd acts against minors and the manufacture
00:18:06and storage of pornographic materials. Taking
00:18:10into account the previous sentence, the final punishment
00:18:14was 12 years in a strict-regime penal colony. The first high-profile cases of online bullying and so-called
00:18:18"death groups" appeared almost 10 years ago. For example, in
00:18:212017, Philip Budeykin, known online as Philip
00:18:25Lis, received 3 years and 4 months in a settlement colony for driving
00:18:29minors to suicide using social networks. A year
00:18:32later, Ilya Sidorov, whom the investigation also considered
00:18:35a curator of one of these groups, received 3 years in a settlement
00:18:38colony. In 2025, the creator of the Blue Whale
00:18:42channel, Ilya Pogiblov, was already sentenced to nine years in a strict-regime
00:18:45penal colony. The court found him guilty, in particular, of organizing
00:18:49online activities aimed at inciting suicide and inclining
00:18:53minors to suicide. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, about
00:18:57130 teenagers allegedly became victims
00:19:00of Blue Whale or other death groups. Today, online bullying takes
00:19:03new forms. Some content, for example, deepfakes, is created in just a few
00:19:07seconds using neural networks. One such case was recently heard by
00:19:11a court in Vladimir. There, schoolchildren used a neural network to create
00:19:15indecent images of their classmate, and then
00:19:18distributed them on a Telegram channel. The mother went to court. The culprits and
00:19:21the educational institution were ordered to pay compensation for moral
00:19:24damages. According to the statistics of the Monitoring Center "Security
00:19:282.0," in 2025, about 10,000 cases
00:19:31of cyberbullying involving
00:19:34minors were recorded in Russia. This is 14% more than
00:19:38a year earlier. However, for online violence, which includes
00:19:41stalking, bullying, and harassment, words
00:19:44are enough. So, in early September, a court in Vologda sentenced a student
00:19:48of a local university to 2.5 years of suspended imprisonment for inciting
00:19:51a 20-year-old girl to suicide. Mediazona
00:19:54established that the accused is probably named Stepan Shalyapin. According to
00:19:58the case materials, he systematically sent messages from different
00:20:01accounts to the victim, encouraging her to self-harm or commit
00:20:05suicide. According to world statistics, as of 2025,
00:20:08approximately 38% of women have
00:20:11experienced online violence at least once, and
00:20:1485% have been witnesses to it.
00:20:16Every twelfth
00:20:20child
00:20:21has been subjected to sexual harassment online.
00:20:26This is the program "A Person Has the Right." My name is Mariana Trocheshnikova.
00:20:30Joining our studio via video link is feminist and author of the YouTube channel
00:20:34"Lego of Discord," Zalina Marshenkulova. Zalina, hello!
00:20:39Hello. Please tell me, why
00:20:42are women and girls especially often victims
00:20:46of cyberstalking and cyberbullying? Is
00:20:50this related to gender stereotypes, or is it a
00:20:53misconception that girls and women
00:20:57are most often affected by online violence? No, this is not
00:21:01a misconception. There are studies confirming this, just as
00:21:04women are more and most often affected by physical violence,
00:21:08they are also affected by cyberviolence, among other things.
00:21:10This is because there is already a
00:21:14learned misogyny, woman-hatred, which prevails,
00:21:17especially in patriarchal society. Russia
00:21:20is a maximally patriarchal country.
00:21:23But there is also another reason:
00:21:26impunity, the absence of any
00:21:29protective mechanisms. Yes,
00:21:32a person in Russia, especially a woman, cannot
00:21:35protect herself from harassment by some
00:21:37inadequate person.
00:21:40There are no such tools, for example, like a restraining order not
00:21:44to approach within 200 meters. There are no such laws,
00:21:48so this leads to absolute lawlessness. It leads to
00:21:52girls being abducted in broad daylight, as there have been
00:21:55several such cases. Some
00:21:58heroes of their own stories abduct them, shove them into a car,
00:22:02and nothing will happen to them. Yes, but
00:22:04this is still, roughly speaking, moving from
00:22:08online to real life, and it seems as
00:22:12if law enforcement agencies treat
00:22:15cyberstalking and cyberbullying in the same way?
00:22:19кибертравле?
00:22:50as if you were being bullied in person and told that you are a nobody,
00:22:53die, something like that. That is, in reality, the harm
00:22:57from online bullying is real. It's not some
00:23:00fantasy, it's not some nonsense. It's
00:23:03absolutely abnormal, I don't know, to
00:23:07encounter a huge number of threats or death wishes online.
00:23:10But this is also not regulated at all, because,
00:23:13yes, there is such a thing. In reality, if we specifically consider
00:23:17Russia, then in Russia...
00:23:50In general, society often does not
00:23:53take this digital violence seriously, and
00:23:56often blames the victim, saying, "Well, you shouldn't be
00:24:00online, posting your photos," because
00:24:03in general, a society
00:24:06that
00:24:10normalizes violence normalizes any
00:24:13violence. In Russia, domestic violence is still
00:24:17considered normal. People have not yet concluded
00:24:21whether it is acceptable to hit children or not, for example, in the family. This is still considered, for some reason,
00:24:25a subject for discussion. And what can we say about
00:24:28cyberviolence, which is not taken seriously at all? Moreover,
00:24:32many people actually perceive this
00:24:34option, to insult someone, to threaten someone, to
00:24:37pour out all their poison, all their negativity,
00:24:41they perceive it as their, I don't
00:24:44know, not so much a privilege, but a free time
00:24:47pastime. That's how they probably perceive it, like, "I have the
00:24:50right to do this." I think people don't even think about
00:24:54how much they dehumanize someone on
00:24:57the Internet. What problems arise
00:25:01for specific people, for specific girls and young women, in
00:25:05cases where they do not find support, well,
00:25:08from the state, from law enforcement
00:25:11agencies, after cyber
00:25:15violence? What huge problems! As someone who has repeatedly
00:25:19defended women who were bullied online
00:25:22for no clear reason, for nothing at all, in fact,
00:25:25even more interestingly, for nothing at all. That is, they said nothing, did nothing wrong, simply
00:25:29because they can bully, because they can. They delete their
00:25:33social media, I don't know, some end up in a mental hospital
00:25:36with a nervous breakdown, some tried to
00:25:39commit suicide. This is all very serious. It
00:25:43has huge consequences. It's surprising
00:25:46that many people don't understand this when...
00:26:32here because it is a completely absurd and monstrous case. This
00:26:36is simply how a fourteen-year-old girl is being bullied by some
00:26:39adult man, for no clear reason, completely
00:26:42inadequate, just because she changed the name of a game chat,
00:26:46although she didn't change it and it wasn't her. That is, it's unclear for
00:26:50what reason she generally provoked his desire to
00:26:53harass her and poison her life in every
00:26:57possible way, that this is generally unthinkable,
00:27:00an underage girl and some adult
00:27:04inadequate man. This is just complete madness. Therefore, of course, this
00:27:08case, of course, had to
00:27:10become high-profile. Of course, they had to do something about it. It's just unthinkable.
00:27:14But I think if it wasn't an underage girl, but just
00:27:18some adult woman, I don't think such a thing would have happened. there would be no resonance, there
00:27:21would be no resonance or there would be no case,
00:27:25I think there would be no case, there are a huge number of women
00:27:28who are physically persecuted by former partners, physically directly, yes, that is, not online, physically
00:27:32not... life near their home, they are stalked, or something else, and they cannot
00:27:35get any case against them to succeed, in your opinion,
00:27:38in this situation, in these conditions, would it
00:27:41help, well, I don't know, the adoption of
00:27:45some specialized law or the development of legal
00:27:48mechanisms against obsessive persecution, including
00:27:52online, or
00:27:54would life develop
00:27:58its own way, and no one would pay attention to the law?
00:28:02I'm afraid that in Russia no more regulating, restricting
00:28:06laws should be made, because
00:28:08now almost all laws are used as
00:28:12repression, as repressive
00:28:15laws, and of course, this law, even
00:28:18if it existed, which prohibits cyberbullying, it would naturally
00:28:22be directed not against real scum, maniacs and
00:28:26villains, I don't know, pedophiles, but it would work
00:28:29against some ordinary good people, as almost
00:28:33all good people in Russia are already in prison,
00:28:35so I am not advocating for such legislative
00:28:39restrictions, here we need to fight only with
00:28:43public resonance, unfortunately, in such a case, society must stop
00:28:46normalizing violence in
00:28:48general, because violence is still normalized against
00:28:52women, against domestic violence with words that it
00:28:56will harm, I don't know, mm
00:28:59traditional family in some way, hinting that... that the traditional
00:29:03family is based on violence against women, obviously,
00:29:06this must be, when they stop normalizing this at the state level, then
00:29:10the attitude towards cyberviolence will begin to change,
00:29:14and as long as physical violence is still
00:29:17considered, well, not a big deal, how will we come to the conclusion that cyberviolence
00:29:21is bad? Uh-huh, yes, thank you very much for your comments
00:29:25to Lina Marshenkulova, feminist, author of the YouTube
00:29:28channel Lega Razdora, she was on the line with the program, "A Person Has the Right."
00:29:35This was the program "A Person Has the Right," it was hosted by me, Maryana Trachashnikova,
00:29:39see you on the air of Radio Svoboda and the Current Time TV channel.
00:30:27The most massive attack on Moscow using cruise missiles and drones.
00:30:30The Moscow oil refinery and a number of other facilities were again under attack.
00:30:34The capital's authorities call the attack an attempt to disrupt the elections. Today in Russia, in
00:30:38the occupied territories of Ukraine, is the last day of voting in the parliamentary
00:30:42elections. You are watching the news on the Current
00:30:45Time TV channel. Today is Sunday, September 20, my name is Timofey Rozhansky.
00:30:49Hello. Let's move on to the main topic of today.
00:30:51дня.
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