Browse content similar to Taking On Putin. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
The Kremlin is accused
of poisoning its | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
enemies in Britain. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
But what happens to Vladimir Putin's
opponents back home? | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
As Russia prepares for
a presidential election, I meet the | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
people standing up to
the Kremlin. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
Is Russia a police state? | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
Absolutely. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
100%. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Close the doors. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
Close the door. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
Close the door. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
I find out what it's
like to become a target myself. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
There's no question whatsoever that
we're being followed. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
And we show how the Russian state
attacks its opponents | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
and bullies its critics. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
I'm in a police station. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
It's how it goes in a democracy
like the one that Russia's got. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:16 | |
I've been coming
to Russia for years. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
But this visit feels different. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
The authorities, we believe,
will be watching us. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:46 | |
This Sunday, there's
a presidential election. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
Everyone knows who is going to win. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:59 | |
Vladimir Putin has been
in power here for the | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
last 18 years. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:03 | |
In a few days' time,
he's expected to win six | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
more years in power. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:12 | |
No one really doubts
the outcome of the election. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
The question is - how can that be? | 0:02:14 | 0:02:22 | |
Vladimir Putin is popular. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
But this is a country
where challenging | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
power can get you killed. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:36 | |
Three years ago, one
of President Putin's | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
main rivals was gunned down
close to the Kremlin. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
It was a Saturday
and we just sort of | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
exchanged a few messages. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:55 | |
The last message I think
was at 11.13pm and it said | 0:02:55 | 0:03:03 | |
see you tomorrow and at
11.31pm he was killed. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
Boris Nemtsov had been
planning to challenge | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
Vladimir Putin in this year's
presidential election. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
The Kremlin denies any
involvement in the murder. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:20 | |
Boris Nemtsov was
killed because he was | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
the strongest the most | 0:03:23 | 0:03:24 | |
effective, the most | 0:03:24 | 0:03:25 | |
prominent, the most
formidable opponent of | 0:03:25 | 0:03:26 | |
Vladimir Putin's regime. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
He would not be intimidated,
he would not make any deals with | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
the regime, he would not
leave the country, he | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
would not be silenced. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
This was the only way
he could be silenced. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:43 | |
I have come to Moscow
to find out what | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
life's really like for
the opposition here. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:52 | |
Volkswagen Golf 2 behind us. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
And that means I might
become a target too. | 0:03:55 | 0:04:03 | |
T914. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:05 | |
They're really close behind us. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:11 | |
We are going a complicated way but
Volkswagen follows us. Everywhere | 0:04:11 | 0:04:16 | |
that we go. It seems someone wants
to know what we're up to. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:28 | |
to know what we're up to. It is now
reversing. It is the same one, I | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
remember. Close the door. Close the
door. The blue Volkswagen has | 0:04:32 | 0:04:39 | |
followed us to the office of Human
Rights Watch. They document what | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
happens to the opposition here. Very
experience raids and invasive | 0:04:45 | 0:04:56 | |
instructions. Campaigners get beaten
up. They get burgled and physically | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
abused. The complaining of this is
get vandalised and private homes get | 0:05:01 | 0:05:07 | |
vandalised and so on and so forth.
One man has lived with this reality | 0:05:07 | 0:05:14 | |
for years. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:20 | |
Alexei Navalny dares to expose
corruption amongst Vladimir Putin's | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
inner circle. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
There are other candidates standing
in Sunday's election. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:53 | |
in Sunday's election. But Alexei
Navalny has been banned because of a | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
conviction for theft. The European
Court of Human Rights found the | 0:05:56 | 0:06:01 | |
original trial was unfair. The
Kremlin says Navalny organises | 0:06:01 | 0:06:13 | |
illegal rallies. This is what
happens when he holds one. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:22 | |
He was later accused of assaulting a
police officer jeering this arrest. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:32 | |
-- during this arrest. He is the
most prominent, possibly the most | 0:06:32 | 0:06:40 | |
charismatic opposition figure in the
country today and the Government is | 0:06:40 | 0:06:48 | |
preventing him from running in the
election. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
election. 914. When we leave Human
Rights Watch, we are still being | 0:06:55 | 0:07:01 | |
followed by the blue Volkswagen. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:08 | |
followed by the blue Volkswagen. OK,
I'm paranoid. It's now three o'clock | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
and everywhere we've been, we've
been followed by a car with a | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
registration number starting TE 914.
-- T914. People who take on the | 0:07:15 | 0:07:28 | |
system here are routinely spied on.
Life in Vladimir Putin's Russia can | 0:07:28 | 0:07:33 | |
be far more dangerous. If you work
for the team Navalny being arrested | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
goes with the job. Some activists
have suffered far worse. I felt a | 0:07:38 | 0:07:47 | |
strong blow to the head. At first I
thought something had fallen off the | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
roof, I thought something was
collapsing. I turned round and see a | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
man hitting me once again with what
turned out to be a metal pipe. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:07 | |
Nikolai was accused of setting up
the attack on himself. He says his | 0:08:07 | 0:08:13 | |
office was later raided by the
police. It was so absurd, I got | 0:08:13 | 0:08:19 | |
assaulted and was hit over the head
with a pipe. At the Moscow | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
headquarters are compensated all
leaflets, all stickers and all | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
merchandise with the word, Navalny.
Inside Navalny HQ, the man many say | 0:08:28 | 0:08:35 | |
Plaid emit Putin fears emost has
agreed to meet me. -- Vladimir | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
Putin. How you? Very well. Why are
you not running in this election? I | 0:08:40 | 0:08:50 | |
am not allowed to run. Putin banned
me from participating. He is afraid | 0:08:50 | 0:08:57 | |
of me and my colleagues. We have,
just as volunteers, more than | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
200,000 people. Of course he is
afraid of such a power. Alexei | 0:09:03 | 0:09:11 | |
Navalny has been repeatedly arrested
and detained. It's kind of very | 0:09:11 | 0:09:17 | |
routine situation for me. Every
single time when I am going on the | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
outdoor rally they arrested me. They
took away our leaflets and our | 0:09:22 | 0:09:29 | |
laptops, computers. They can take
everything. It is completely | 0:09:29 | 0:09:36 | |
illegal. Is Russia a police state?
Absolutely. 100%. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:48 | |
Absolutely. 100%. The Kremlin would
not speak to us but it is not hard | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
to find politicians here who will
give the Kremlin line. | 0:09:53 | 0:10:01 | |
give the Kremlin line. Navalny has
been attacked several times. Last | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
year he spent 60 days in prison or
in jail. Russia is a police state, | 0:10:04 | 0:10:11 | |
isn't it? Russia is less of a police
state than any Western country I | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
know of. We have quite a liberal
legislation on protests and people | 0:10:16 | 0:10:22 | |
need to not violate them. The police
deal with protests in a way which is | 0:10:22 | 0:10:30 | |
according to their law. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:36 | |
according to their law. But here it
is easy to get on the wrong side of | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
the security services. There is the
FSB, the new name for the KGB, | 0:10:44 | 0:10:53 | |
Russia's krych police. And there is
a Police Department that is accused | 0:10:53 | 0:10:58 | |
of targeting political activists. It
is called centre E. Officially it is | 0:10:58 | 0:11:09 | |
a counter extremism police force.
Absolutely. In Russia it is | 0:11:09 | 0:11:16 | |
understood in a strange way. The
idea that any kind of thing that | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
could be considered a threat to
political stability, that would be | 0:11:19 | 0:11:24 | |
considered extremism. What have we
got? There is a car on our tail, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:37 | |
again. We are being followed, we
think. The car registration numbers | 0:11:37 | 0:11:44 | |
we can pick out 369. This time we
are being tracked by a dark coloured | 0:11:44 | 0:11:50 | |
Renault. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
Renault. Who do you think is
following us? It might be centre E, | 0:11:55 | 0:12:00 | |
it might be someone else. Usually it
means a message. A lot is about a | 0:12:00 | 0:12:07 | |
message with the Russians. For
people like andray, this has become | 0:12:07 | 0:12:15 | |
part of life. Have you been
threatened physically? Yes. What | 0:12:15 | 0:12:21 | |
happened? Last summer I got some
e-mails with physical threats. Like | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
a death threat? Yes. They said
probably it is time to do something | 0:12:25 | 0:12:32 | |
about it? Meaning physically. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:43 | |
In Putin's Russia, the line between
the security services and violent | 0:12:45 | 0:12:52 | |
folks is sometimes blurred. Last
April, Alexei Navalny was almost | 0:12:52 | 0:12:58 | |
blinded in one eye. -- thugs. The
police denied that centre E is being | 0:12:58 | 0:13:05 | |
accused of supporting the group
blamed for the attack. They are | 0:13:05 | 0:13:10 | |
called SERB and they are pro-Putin.
I want to meet them. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:21 | |
I want to meet them. Hello. What I
do not know is we are being secretly | 0:13:21 | 0:13:30 | |
filmed. This footage later turns up
on Russian TV. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:37 | |
SERB deny the green dye attack on
Navalny but they take me to the | 0:13:43 | 0:13:50 | |
place where opposition leader Boris
Nemtsov was gunned down. An | 0:13:50 | 0:13:58 | |
opposition activist garners the
memorial because it has been | 0:13:58 | 0:14:04 | |
vandalised in the past. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:11 | |
Some people say that SERB, this
group, is controlled by centre E. Is | 0:14:34 | 0:14:39 | |
that true? | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
Check out these SERB activist who is
filming us. Here he is at the green | 0:14:56 | 0:15:03 | |
dye attack on Navalny last April and
this is him showing what appears to | 0:15:03 | 0:15:09 | |
be his police ID at another SERB
protest. He is a former police | 0:15:09 | 0:15:15 | |
Major. It suggests SERB may be well
connected. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:28 | |
SERB has now taken me to a memorial
near Boris | 0:15:29 | 0:15:37 | |
near Boris Nemtsov's old home. They
take it apart. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:44 | |
was Ben | 0:16:00 | 0:16:00 | |
Aren't you desecrating a shrine? | 0:16:00 | 0:16:05 | |
They dump the wreath in a toilet. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:06 | |
It's clearly vandalism by SERB
and it's all caught on film. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:14 | |
But the next day, we get
picked up by the police. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:23 | |
It feels like we're being set up. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
We're being escorted - there's
a police officer in our van - | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
to a local police station. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
The police want to question
us about the vandalism | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
of the Nemtsov memorial. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
I'm in a police station
and my colleague Seamus | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
and our translator have been taken
down to answer police questions. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
They've left me on my own. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
It's a slightly surreal moment. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
Here I am. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
I'm sure everything is fine
but I don't quite know. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
It's how it goes in a democracy
like the one that Russia's got. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:06 | |
While we're in the nick,
pro-Kremlin media say I may be | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
charged with vandalism. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:18 | |
Here we go. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
After three hours,
we're finally released. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Are we ready? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:28 | |
Are we going? | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
Yeah. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
Off you go. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:32 | |
But when we get outside,
a TV crew is waiting to doorstep us. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:38 | |
OK, so there's a story on Ren TV
that I was sort of somehow been | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
charged with vandalism. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:47 | |
It's a total fabrication. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
We've spent the last three
hours in here and then | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
you come out straightaway,
as if you knew exactly | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
what was happening. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
Are you some part
of the police state? | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Are you some part
of the police state? | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
Can you answer the question? | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
Er, hi. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:03 | |
Are you some part of a police state? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
You're not? | 0:18:05 | 0:18:06 | |
Ask a question. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
Russian. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
Only Russian. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:13 | |
OK, so. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:14 | |
So, very good. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
OK, so, these colleagues
here from Russian TV have come | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
here to doorstep us and they've done
it so incompetently that | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
they're now walking away. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:22 | |
It's really quite
pathetic, but off you go. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:30 | |
We've just been given
a small taste of what it's | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
like for the opposition. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:41 | |
They're regularly
targeted by Russian TV. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
Don't call them TV,
they are not journalists. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:55 | |
It's a part of the government, part
of the state, like spies, agent etc. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
They have some peoples with cameras
who are working as a journalist. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
If you really take
on the Kremlin here, | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
you've got to fight a dark triangle
- the security services, violent | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
thugs and the pro-Kremlin media. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
They'll be on your case. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
And it's this dark triangle that
makes politics here so chilling. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:20 | |
Is Russia a democracy? | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
Oh, of course it is. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
Russia is a democracy. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
It has elected parliament,
elected president. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
And I would say it has more freedom
of expression than any country | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
I would know of at this point. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:39 | |
If you watch Russian television
of course you'll have a several | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
miles longer spectrum of opinion
than on BBC, for example. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:48 | |
So Russia is more free than Britain? | 0:19:48 | 0:19:53 | |
I'm not in a business
of comparing democracies. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
But as far as freedom
of expression is concerned, | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
I think Russia is more forward
than the UK. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:07 | |
But speaking out against
Vladimir Putin can be dangerous. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
I've come to St Petersburg. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
Some of the worst cases of political
violence in the past few months have | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
taken place in the frozen city. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:31 | |
Vladimir Ivanyutenko
is a road cleaner here. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:40 | |
He's famous for his protests
against Vladimir Putin. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:47 | |
But last December, the man
behind the mask was nearly | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
killed on his way to work. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
TRANSLATION: I saw a flash.
It was a taser. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:57 | |
The second man jumped
at me and stabbed me | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
with a knife, right here. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
It seems he wanted to
stab me in the heart. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:06 | |
I saw that my blood was pumping
out from this wound. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:14 | |
This is stab wound number one. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
And stab wound number
two is right here. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Vladimir believes the state
was behind the attack. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
Why did this happen? | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
TRANSLATION: I can only explain it
by my opposition activities. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
I consistently oppose
Putin's regime. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
I think it's kleptocratic. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
He is not a legitimate president. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
We've been trying to keep a low
profile in St Petersburg. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:11 | |
But we're being followed - again. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
John, remember this number - 062. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
So we've stopped for a coffee. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
062 followed us from
there, and there it is. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
It's just gone that way
because we've turned a sneaky left, | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
but we'll see it again no doubt. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
Sure enough - 062 turns up again. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
So, as predicted, 062 caught up
with us very, very quickly. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:51 | |
There's no question whatsoever that
we're being followed - | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
as we were in Moscow,
as we are now being | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
followed in St Petersburg. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
Somebody very powerful in Russia
wants to know what we're up to. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
The Kremlin's friends in the media
have tracked us down too. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:13 | |
How do you know I'm here? | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
We know that you came
from Moscow to St Petersburg. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
Who told you? | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
We have our producers who contact... | 0:23:20 | 0:23:21 | |
And who told them? | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
Look it's... | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
I mean there is a secret
of our informators, you know that. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
As before, they're from
a pro-Kremlin media company. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
But anyway, carry on,
what's your question? | 0:23:35 | 0:23:36 | |
So what are you doing
here in St Petersburg? | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
It's none of your business. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
OK. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:45 | |
But what I can tell you is what I'm
doing is I'm doing my job | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
as a reporter and when we are ready
it will be broadcast on the BBC | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
and you are invited to watch
the programme, as everybody else | 0:23:52 | 0:24:00 | |
will watch Panorama. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
Many of the opposition
activists we meet are worried | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
about being followed. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
Two months ago, Dinar Idrisov tried
to film police handling | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
of an opposition rally. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
But he was attacked by three men. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
He's taking me to the place
where it happened. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
TRANSLATION: I had a broken
cheekbone under my eye. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
I had an eye contusion. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
I had many bruises on my face. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
Four bones in my back
were broken and my arm, | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
which I was using to protect myself. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
Dinar believes the attackers
were from Russia's state | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
security services. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
They were just using their fists?
No weapons? | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
They kicked you and you
were on the ground? | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
TRANSLATION: Their fighting
technique suggested | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
they were front-line police officers
or security services, | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
rather than hooligans
or political opponents | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
who would show some emotion. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
Whereas these people
were emotionless. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:26 | |
It's clear Dinar's feeling jumpy. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
He's worried that
we're being watched. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
It soon becomes clear why we've been
followed and filmed. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
One of the state TV channels runs
a special report about me. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
As well as repeating
the vandalism claim, | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
As well as repeating
the vandalism claim, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:27 | |
As well as repeating
the vandalism claim, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
it accuses me of making up stories
about students and Cossacks | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
I haven't even met. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:32 | |
My police statement and passport
details are leaked to the media. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:48 | |
This is how things work
in Vladimir Putin's Russia. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
The Kremlin wants us to believe that
Sunday's presidential election | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
is democracy in action. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
These elections, are
they free and fair? | 0:27:19 | 0:27:22 | |
Oh, absolutely, free
and fair election. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
And I think the turnout
will be exceeding 70%, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
as public opinion polls show. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:35 | |
But everyone here
knows who will win. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
The man accused
of waging a new cold war. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
And the winner is? | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
And the winner is going
to be the President | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
of the Russian Federation,
Vladimir Putin, there | 0:27:51 | 0:27:52 | |
is no doubt about it. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
As for the banned presidential
hopeful, he's now challenging | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
Vladimir Putin in the only
way he can. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:10 | |
He's calling for voters
to boycott the election. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
I'm appealing to people
and trying to persuade them, | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
this is not an election,
you cannot participate in it | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
because it's disgrace,
it's immoral, it's awful, | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
it's ugly and we cannot call this
procedure an election. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:31 | |
Vladimir Putin had
two rivals he feared. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
One has been banned. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
The other, shot. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
To stand up to Vladimir Putin
is to go head to head | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
with the Russian state. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:57 | |
And what kind of democracy is that? | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 |