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industry. hooton's as popular as he claims wisely, so afraid of his opponent, the prescribed freight company and now they've only fools his supporters and sends them onto the streets where they break the law. we didn't know what is the cause of the tabs. it is here, if they are victims, it's not a food is regina gardner, but of their own stupidity. and they go with 2 of them. i worked in a research institution. i was forced to quit for this. i'm a political activist. position

the inside me tutoring has been in power for more than 2 decades. massively, exacerbating divisions with in russian society. one of his favorite tactics is refreshing, the effects of which are most noticeable in moscow. up to now, the metropolis of 12000000 people has flourished economically due to revenues from the oil and gas sector. moscow is held up as a prime example of russian success jeer, average wages are 3 times higher than the more rural regions of the nation. and unlike the rest of the country, the russian capital is also a hot bed of growing resistance to the tutoring regime, especially for people who are young and educated.

the who belongs to this opposition and what are their goals, the, what price our food is? critics willing to pay for greater justice and freedom. the soviet flag disappeared from the roof of the kremlin and late 1991 and was replaced with the russian banner, the democracy and freedom to cold. the population appear to be united the after 70 years of communism, austerity, and state propaganda. people had hopes for

a better life or what's happened to that russian unity. it's a question i'm keen to explore. in the 19 ninety's, i worked as a journalist in moscow. what am i friends with a local colleague? field to tell story. he's now one of the most influential members and pollutants in our circle the we meet again for the 1st time in 30 years. hi, how's it going? by? somebody else instead of yourself. uh you think there's a, can you still speak russian? yeah. it's been a while, but i'll give it a go. it's

a comment on the board and ask. busy it's september 2021. tolstoy, a great grandson of the legendary writer, hope to win re election as a member of parliament. there's a long q. best buy. there's something at stake. that's democracy, people chewing to cast their votes. upon 1st glance, it looks comparable to western elections. you can vote, and there are elect torrell lists. the cameras film, the top of attrition casting. as boat state media disseminate the image of a free and fair process. how many candidates are there? how many?

12312 to besides pollutants united, russia party as a communist and a liberal opposition. but the authorities decide who is allowed to run according to the n g o goals. the electoral commission has blocked the candidacy of 9000000 people in national and local poles across the land. european council observers say this isn't democratic. meanwhile, supporters of georgia, tolstoy and pollutants party are confident of their victory. when you mention your position is the minority of the presidential election shows us what the majority thinks, pretty related. somebody since to get this issue. that's just 5000 people out of 150000000. we're not supposed to go on in our country. criminals aren't allowed in politics. that's why the opposition doesn't have any candidates without free

elections. it's difficult to gauge how many supporters put and actually has the that's why young moscow activists are trying to document the suspected elect or fraud. despite figuring the consequences, olga works in marketing. but today she's posing as a supporter of the oppositional communist party. the again, i'm not a member of the c p, but i'm pretending to be so i can be here as an election observer. give us more, just a quote with this, wouldn't hire this this transparent box is one of thousands of mobile ballot boxes belonging to the russian and the total commission they were introduced to

make voting easier for the elderly during the corona virus pandemic game. hello. from the electoral commission, open the door, please upgrade specialist to all those interested to know why millions of retired people are voting for pollutants party despite their meat or pensions. the, the name of the governing parties, candidates standing for re election is dimitri peps. off the the you mockery to patrol now? yes. where he so you can vote why you requested the visit, didn't you so well know you? yes, i remember who should i vote for? i'll explain everything to you. oh, i've brought a pin. you can keep that mazda rita,

struggles to find the name of the candidate just recommended to her. so i was so somebody think that the civic did the nursing home a give you the name of the new me? yes, i heard cuts off. know great. why are you voting for him? there are plenty of other names on the list that you'll hear. i found him look, she's just voted for pest of the 2 election observer. older. this is clearly a set up elderly people are being systematically manipulated before elections, to choose candidates loyal to putting on you for that the that's my cell phone. so goodbye. what do you come across next to a chosen candidate? did you already decide? yeah, i'm

a grown woman and i'm voting for pep solve from united russia. so please don't folders. i'll have opiates, the mother system guy. and usually i grew up in the soviet union. sure. with us, i was in the communist party back then, which part of a sudden now i trust the food in party. so this isn't, well they go by you and you do more space, the thing that's cool, i don't think russia is divided or you by just a just smaller the through g. there's a minority of young people who didn't experience the soviet union or duties. i see who were born to after it ended up thought i believe it was between the some of them have no appreciation for national russian identity. and that's on the d. but i see the, our mistake was to allow a generation of 20 to 30 year olds to mix western culture with russian values. and good idea is up and it's in this to utilize pages teaching this. there's a whole lot

of them you cut them would assess these things differently. he was a comrade and friend, a voice names off to a shot dead in front of the kremlin. in 2015. vladimir has survive to poison attack themselves in his under permanent secret service surveillance and opportunity for those guide. even when i'm on the phone. i know that there's always a 3rd party listening on the line. obviously has come to virginia to investigate television also always knows who everything and where i am going to attempt to stay on those nights can fill up here with cameras and broadcast. if i'm a to restore ease of what it means, you have to ask us what that can you believe say for example me and i said we're being funded by the west with, by just going to that particular gain people. sure. and that's that project. what condition and i guess what i should know, my wife started asking for all the money's going on. why she hasn't seen any of it yet. we're gonna send them julian will prescribe. well,

if i don't hear that they're following or wiretapping me as i start the new ideas, it's psychological warfare question, but after 2 attacks with me, i'm a co substances being tail doesn't scare me anymore. no. thank you much guy. know what's really going on in this country and who's behind it all, and i'm sure i'm stuck in addition to the, the assassination attempt on the line, they're cut a motorcycle. there been numerous other points, an attack, some members of the opposition since by me prudent became russian president in 2000 . the most recent case wasn't so long ago in august 2020 alexei novelle. and these are seriously on a flight from siberia to moscow. the doctor is at a hospital, an honest putting up on the, in an induced coma and he was phone out to berlin. the

election. i've only made a statement in may 2024 months after being poisoned. the pretty that i don't know. i mean, yeah, i mean records is mostly of, i'm reading a lot of what's being written and basically in moscow quaker smoking, i'm surprised at the lens preaching is going to to prevents when i returned and you've got most of the moist. so wasn't able to judge zillow, so i wish that i'm feeling better. deluca today. i've decided to end my stay in germany by most of them. i'm with the i'm still young via them. i'll arrive at most school airport on the 17th of january of 2021. the amount that's that was due soon . you come and pick me up. but yeah, yeah. as long as most people are you some of the chairs. busy the older wanted to respond to them. i'll just call to action. but your mother,

for your disconnect her daughter in trouble. the lows are already familiar with russian prisons. in 2017, those mother and daughter were arrested at a demonstration in downtown moscow. when our stories began to crack down more harshly and protest the this picture of the older became a symbol of the opposition, an innocent russian citizen, arrested for no reason the on this day in january of 2021. the active list arrived at moscow airport with thousands of other supporters of albany. children that is playing had been diverted .

the protesters didn't hold back, puts in, you provocative tour. alexio's only had been condemning corruption in russia for more than a decade. it's landed him in jail several times. this time he faced 2 and a half years in prison. and the former lawyer has faced more than the nerve agent attack. the opposition publication was arrested the moment here, right back and russia the it was all in vain. glory he was still arrested but while he was in germany and of all me prepared and outrages x was a, a grenade, just ready to be thrown the,

the purpose of the video to cause major problems for the kremlin and above all, put in. so i me, it was, you'll see for yourself how much this man left luxury and money and that he's capable of. and the thing the investigation revealed, the russian presidents, megalomania whose families was embezzling public funds. and now his k g b error funds are lining their pockets. this doesn't align with the image of putting peddled by state media that of a modest and courageous head of state. the video which is just under 2 hours long, has been viewed more than $100000000.00 times on youtube. in the few states across the country, more and more disaffected russians rally behind the bone, the in protest against ramp and corruption. every request to demonstrate is blocked

. this gives the authorities the power to intervene and the rest of participants. dear citizens, we're here to ensure your safety. we have disperse. this is no legal gathering. nevertheless all the and her sister tanya meet a friend that they know a lien from previous rally as while thousands of people to take to the streets. many of them students peacefully expressing their opinions, but nonetheless a great risk. the embrace and i've got a load of posters under my coat jackets. philip, i'm scared i might be detained with a very good thanks to the n g o z. at least i know the law most were doing this discreetly. the slogans read,

i'm not afraid or we want freedom statements that wouldn't lead to jail in other countries. just in case olga entered front of lena stay on the sidelines. 0 i had a bad feeling about this, don't you cut off the situation escalates? what does that, why are you taking her? without any warning, alina is seized by officers. tell me where you're taking her. to which station. what did you do? why are you taking her? through and you don't even know yourself because the we were just standing on the pavement. where are you taking my friend?

is this a joke? listen to me. do you know why she's been arrested? stop. well, what is the cause of these nights? the police are clearly just following orders to detain as many demonstrators as possible. in the chaos, alina is able to let old a know which station she's being taken to. the police station say hello, you see me and hear me. okay? that's enough to give to a few days later, the president takes questions from students. you come in spite, if it's friendly, calm, tone vladimir prudent issues, a clear warning to his critics. what i think about what's your view of the current situation? thank you. well, i'm supposed to, but thank you for your question. no,

i'd like to make it clear once again, let's go back to everyone has the right to free expression at you show that this can only happen within the existing legal framework that i, what i'd say it was pushed, was it in your anyone going a step too far in this regard, just isn't just acting culture productively system avoids them even the dangerously paper sticking to the point of view. now personally dangerous in the more than 20 years. i pollutants been in power. she successfully restricted the right of assembly. if to a more resume, critics meet that's enough to be labeled as an illegal demonstration. luckily, now by now you will pass along the encourages his supporters to take to the street . and thereby, break the law of this is how they then get caught up on the wheels of justice used to what did they must say name e cause yes, their victims obviously is the end of done but not a hooton's regime is they claim to is quite easy and okay,

but up their own stupidity. soaps, in a group as to the arena, was released after one night and a so she faces a heavy fine and a child at the moment she's not doing to financially. her activism has cost her her job and she's just trying to make ends meet the she's working in a dog, rooming parlor. she loves animals, but this job's a far cry from her actual expertise. yes, i'm an engineer in the midst all industry and i worked in and research institute. oh, i thought to them. yeah, they didn't find me, but i was forced to quit because of my political activism. almost died. yeah, that's correct. i help people who are arrested and i demonstrate the civil rights

to my niece, and my bosses didn't like the fact that i was working for the position. i think one day i was visiting work by people from the f s. b, the domestic secret service lena lost her trust in russian state media long ago. like many young people, she gets their information from independent new sites online. they painted a completely different picture of pollutants. russia was crying just my grandparents watch tv, old a. you can, you can use this, they can't conceive of the fact that the, what's being put in front of them might not be correct. and they think whatever's on tv is the truth. was no actual pulls out. but it's initially they tried to change my political views, that we always ended up arguing nixon with these guys. i just avoid the subject

because i know this discussion won't lead any way you, but i'm always best competing. i mean, my guess crazy man, eastern usually soviet times. no one believe the state propaganda to the village. probably the people even laughed at the headlines and the see piece, paper crowd. you know where to go down to the, to we're living in an empire full of lice except the whole machine runs much more efficiently and actually in your will to me. and i must confess, there's much more talents at play than in the past century. kremlin propaganda is still feeling the majority of russians and influencing millions of people or divorce and stuff. but there are also millions of people, especially the young who stopped believing putin's lies, which i'm are seeing them at the demo. and i wanted to mention that because older this information tactics no longer worked with this generation, the regime deployed the fear factor. lena is example shows that this isn't just

about losing a job or paying a fine. in the worst case scenario, she could end up serving a longer prison sentence. something that's already happened to many other demonstrators. on the 27th of july 2019, for example, tens of thousands march to central moscow demanding that their candidate be allowed to run to the office of mayor. the police took a brutal approach intervening and making random arrest me. there were scuffles with the police which also involved igor, the young man and the jean shorts and great t shirts. later, authorities claim that the court hit this police officer so hard. he could no longer stand up. as this footage clearly shows, it was a complete fabrication. nevertheless, ego was sentenced to 3 years in prison together with many other demonstrators, the senior portrait this

chose, he's got one more year to serve, shows both young and the boy for egos partner dasha the spelled the end of their shared dream. to make up was contenders in yet, so we were planning to start our own tourism business. have a commercial show for an around vacationers. we even wanted to buy a mini van. what don't you so here our 1st posts about it and what they loved or equal or was sentenced on next. he asked me to marry him, but i don't like to marry someone in a prison state media presented igor as a dangerous criminal. the public defamation of opposition members is typical of today's russia. family and friends are shocked at the har sentences headed down to innocent citizens. the task list of in the rochelle was awesome. it is me. but we

went for traders terrible people's immunization. and then after the trial, i received threats from others saying they wanted to shoot a burn or hang me just a moment. i'm with the power and the to produce people who make and implement the lowest head of shred of honesty, justice or sense just nice to speak or would have been given a suspended sentence at the very most of them, most of them were fall. and then when that board show the, the prison holding ego is located indeed abroad, formerly stolen grad, the. it's about 1000 kilometers from his home city of moscow. which means that few people can visit the video today. his lawyer has once again, made the long journey here to file an application for an early release at the relevant regional court. the

the hearing appears comparable to western traditional systems. igor is able to give a statement of the a video link from prison. although he was eligible for parole. months ago, state prosecutors oppose his release. be sending you guys, and i see no reason why my client can be released early experience this. i can't understand the prosecutor's reasoning, or decent the lawyers words fall on deaf ears. that was the goal is good behavior also counts for nothing. i request that the court release me on probation. and i've done everything i've been told to

do in prison. and i don't know what else i'm supposed to do. it's no surprise that the court denies the motion that the judge is about to retire . he won't be taking any more risks of the questions you have and you need to understand how you become a judge in russia. in the 1st place. she said throwing you there. all former justice officials in the 1st 1015 years of their careers. they see her closely judges and prosecutors work together and also when they get to be judges themselves, they have to behave the same way on the point the lack of an independent judiciary. these many russians defenseless against the tyranny of the state. when he was still everyone in this country newest, but in 99 percent of criminal proceedings, the accused,

despite of guilty official supreme court statistics said there's one equitable for every $10000.00 verdicts from that even during the style in the you, the numbers look better as opposed to a scrape. this machinery ever oppression. thousands of government critics have only one option. they have to flee russia by any means necessary. the 1000 kilometers to the west of most scout estonian. not the miscellaneous were the 1st republics to win independence. after the collapse of the soviet union in 1991, the politics have remained a popular holiday destination for russians, or there's a significant rushing community in the region to this day,

the estonia, latvia, and miscellaneous, enjoying the e u. n. nato in 2004 fears that moscow could reassert historical territorial claims have existed here for a long time. not just since the annexation of crimea in 2014 or the attack on large parts of ukraine in 2022. the many dissidents have relocated to vilnius the capital of lithuania. the russians are granted political asylum here. located not far from independence square. this former russian k g b building has been turned into

a museum. reminder of soviet repression. the, the cells are similar to those use back there and to incarcerate these 3 men for their political views. it triggers a vivid nightmarish memories from mikhail, dimitri and vladimir the at $35.00 demetrius the oldest of the 3. he had to pay for his political activism with 14 years in prison, even though he didn't hurt anyone. he was a victim of the russian justice systems, despotism. the stuff doesn't look bad at all.

i told you about the steel beds you can't sleep well and those are because they're too short from the infection, which one? it was exactly the same for me back then. but this has windows phone. you have all the look here. i was tortured. are you in russia? confessions are beaten out of you, but the basis to believe it's because i knew it is nice and then you were beaten very nice day for me. of course, divide from one you don't. they are quite creative and hit you where it hurts the most in wishing. and the they also use electricity from an old generator on it came up in august and i'm a washer and the price of insurance was that applied? oh, well we should i leave a union to the genitals normally, associates. it's sometimes to the face,

but the moment she's split salt without you're at the mercy of their ingenuity, fantastic or by no, it doesn't. and they know where it's most painful. sure, funny when you at the proper, despite to the years as well, to say it's a year loops or cheek, you much can produce footage with film with a hidden camera in a russian prison. in the summer of 2017, several guards are torturing a naked man. when it went public, the film caused a scandal, but the perpetrators got off with extremely lenient sentences, the capital one of them. so when you are cuz i wanted to kill myself to end the torture is for example, when there's another guy slashed my throat in the house. it is not

a lot like to die out. this i filed down the tooth brush handle and rammed into my neck. you were the fullest. and i just thought if i was going to die and you're so welcome, then it should at least be fast. okay, that's what you said in the dimitry was taken to the hospital eventually he managed to escape abroad like so many others the it's estimated that since 2008, some 1800000 russians have left their homeland, including some of the nation's best mines. this is how does usually negative impact on the federations development for example, sooner there is a decision who now lives in durham is he's an item network specialist like i had

are he had to flee moscow in 2019 to avoid being jailed for joining an anti pollutant demonstration, a duplicate or some deposit you spend to 3 years in prison for nothing. if you're 25 or 30, those are your best years. you've got your whole life ahead of you. do you remember about the way for you? yeah, the one that's what i need and so any of we just need because there's no justice in that country and there's no security, a new economic development data and stores after you can't be sure you won't end up in jail for being in the wrong place. on the wrong time, i'll stay and i've used to beat up on you, but i read all the time on twitter about people who want to leave you with or who you've already left. i wish i could use it. these aren't regular workers. i guess you'd be there, highly educated people with university degrees, doctors, engineers and so forth, things, and yet it varies the way our nation's going piedmont. people don't want to live

there anymore. that's what i've used. it's the depth of the economy, sir. good, good. you have settled in paris, france, he was russia's envoy to the european bank for reconstruction and development. he was forced into exile after sharing comments, critical of pollutants in our circle. and we appreciate that. and also i'm going to go to the in 2013 ice and ultimately the nation must fight corruption. auction there was yes, the rims told me that vladimir putin wasn't especially thrilled by that. most of the boss and he's often asked if he's concerned with the high numbers of educated people leaving russia. i think i got the, his answer is always, you know, when we are a free country, he was not finding it, but generally the price for the other one they show. and it's obvious why he says that they have still more anyone who's educated, understands that russia is limping behind the rest of the world. what is the threat

to his power? and for pretend it's better if people, he's not lived abroad. what goodness, the way that you're looking to answer but criticism is growing within russia to, in regions where people's lives are a far cry from that of urban centers like moscow is leads to what i see life in russia is nothing but joy. uh no. need to look anywhere else or the noise. vladimir exit off is an electrician and blogger, who comes from total pets, a small russian town of $13000.00 residents. his internet report on the poor state of his home has ruffled the feathers of the powerful needed to lose the lead. this is the true face of hooting as russia. everything's destroyed. if you like, this dairy farm was going to be secure. no more bombs are needed here. nato no longer needs to destroy russia. links to refresh the

flooding or a good off, had to secretly flew to the west. across the border into lithuania. now he's at a refugee center, waiting for his asylum. claim to be processed. are usually yeah, like a mini of only that's what people call them. a lot of them i've only, i'm not running for any political office and the single single just ask that the streets of my town be cleaned up for that. i've been described as a public enemy. there was nothing else i could do. so i tried using humor. locals laughs, but those are the top didn't. so they took their revenge on me and their own way. but instead of responding to is concerns, the authorities arrested vladimir and charged him with extremism. she faced a long present term. the she only saw one way

out, escaped. a stranger helped him out, the technician select somebody, contacted me through facebook and said he could help me. he wasn't an activist, just a regular citizen. mostly mostly. and he drove with me through bellow, roost to the lithuanian border to a lake, and i had a water proof rucksack and slippers with me. i jumped out of the moving car straight into the water and swim half a kilometer across the lake at night with gps all the way. so meanwhile, he and his son just carried on driving without stopping just in case we've been followed. we. i asked him, do you realize you're helping a criminal? and he answered, i'd like to teach my son about courage, realistic, me vladimir had to leave his wife and children behind. all because he spoke the truth about the misery of life and rule. russia or

the who is this obama mediation, trump? i mean the way to, to the hell is that he's a nobody compared to putting aside there just it's of up to you or nothing. right? yes. good. put in place. them like up to middle. yeah. but a good way for you, what kind of look here, we often get power cuts and see if we can cope with that. when i see it, that's good. we can manage without light tobin metal. imagine how the americans would feel. yeah, maybe up they'd be finished, which is to be sure, i just don't get them here because here according to official figures, the average monthly income and rural areas is equivalent to $300.00 euros, with no sign of an upswing as a show of strength. all put in can do is allude to the glory of long past victories during his commemorative speeches. i cannot fall and i'm not sure that on the enemy,

at the top of our nation, invaded it to destroyers as a state and a nation that's look them up. celebrating associated victory over nazi germany doesn't make up the dissolution of the soviet union. the demonizing, the west tops. okay. national pride, the because the us, we retreated from the west every time i do agree, it forced its economic and cultural model as well as its moral codes on to us in an aggressive manner. murder and underestimates, and do people really believe that when evil putting is gone you that'll be the end . would you eat that? russia will just submit to the west who doesn't know that won't be the case. the middle school to or you may read them. so what is your need? that'd be the executioners are back in russia. we've always respected international

law, but we'll defend our national interest with them. any price should match, and that means it is receiver here, as mean for many regimes have been in power in russia. so there was sarcasm, beach, styling ism and everything after that using us moment. trimball started here shortly. i describe the current one as a post modern dictatorship, with a pseudo democratic facade, or the case with farcical elections and legal procedures, and the justice system resembling that of the soviet union. that's just how much the, like. the

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