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(a prominent opposition politician and political prisoner),00:00:07
urged me to talk about the dialog between
independent political activists and Putin’s elites.00:00:15
And not only just the elites, but everyone who’s
involved in Putin’s Russia political process.00:00:21
Today, we’ll talk about the practical side of intolerance.
The scandal involving Alexei Venediktov00:00:26
(former editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow
radio station) and ACF (Navalny’s organization),00:00:30
among other consequences, exposed how unaware
a good chunk of the public is when it comes00:00:34
to the attributes of Putin’s regime.
And this unawareness is harmful to us all.00:00:37
If we look at the nature of Venediktov’s relationships
with the Government of Moscow through00:00:42
the lens of ethical standards of leading Western media, it is
atrocious indeed, and justifies the scandal it stirred.00:00:49
It’s not even about the alleged excess profits.00:00:52
It’s about the conflict of interest.00:00:55
An editor-in-chief of Moscow’s major media outlet
simply shouldn’t have commercial, friendly,00:01:01
or family relationships with Moscow’s mayor.00:01:05
The only relationship they can afford is a purely professional
one. The one between a journalist and a newsmaker.00:01:11
Again, it’s not about the profits. The thing is,
any personal relationship affects what you do.00:01:16
You don’t release a buzzworthy investigative
exposé, only to casually smash a brekkie00:01:22
with its main target the very next morning.00:01:24
We realize, though, that in Putin’s Russia,
the mechanism is exactly the opposite.00:01:32
An editor-in-chief of a major Moscow-based media
outlet frankly has to be as close as possible00:01:37
to all of their newsmakers, from the Presidential
Administration to the Government of Moscow.00:01:42
Because they aren’t just newsmakers — they are the
ones who can destroy the said editor and their media00:01:49
at the flick of a switch.00:01:50
But it’s slightly more complicated when
you deal not with an abstract editor00:01:55
but with a person you regularly nurse whiskey with.00:01:59
Today, I’ll try to explain why we have to cut
people some slack due to the reality of the regime.00:02:06
We shouldn’t do it out of pity or personal affinities.00:02:13
We should do it because there’s no one
else who would help us build the future together.00:02:19
PRISON TERM OR AMNESTY?00:02:24
Putin’s regime leans on one fundamental pillar.00:02:29
The entire top-1,000 of Russia’s officials, the overwhelming
majority of Forbes-listed Russian billionaires,00:02:35
people who wield power and financial resources —
they are all in breach of the Russian law.00:02:41
Let’s dream up. Imagine
tomorrow they’re asked questions.00:02:44
Where do those palaces, banks,
factories, yachts, and oil rigs come from?00:02:49
Under what circumstances did they take over a
company, receive a state-sponsored soft loan,00:02:53
or win a government tender facing no competition?00:02:57
How did they pay taxes, evaluate their assets,
which fibs did they tell their shareholders,00:03:02
and how did they vie for the markets?00:03:05
Honest answers to those questions
would mean surrender to court.00:03:09
And it’s a feature, not a bug,
mind you. It’s all done deliberately.00:03:14
There must be no legitimate big property or legal statuses.
There must be no innocent high-ranking officials.00:03:27
The system’s rulebook must go directly against the law.
That makes everyone personally dependent on Putin.00:03:35
They have to understand one thing: if Putin gets up on the
wrong side of the bed or he’s replaced by anyone else,00:03:41
a simple flick of the killswitch that put them above
the law would be enough for the elites to lose it all:00:03:48
their status, assets, and freedom.00:03:51
Even fleeing abroad wouldn’t help. For they wouldn’t
be prosecuted for insulting His Imperial Majesty00:03:57
or for civil protests — they’d be prosecuted for trite monkey
business that has become the Russian elites’ lifestyle.00:04:06
Is such loyalty a sign of immaturity?00:04:09
In between your personal Windsor Castle in a
suburban Moscow gated community and solitary00:04:12
confinement involving life without parole,
there’s only one man who’ll inevitably die,00:04:15
and may possibly go nuts or end up incapacitated.00:04:19
You may be driven around in an armored Mercedes
and escorted by bodyguards, but your life and freedom00:04:23
are tied to a tiny blood clot in someone else's artery.00:04:27
Such behavior is undoubtedly immature.00:04:30
If those people acted as rational adults, they’d see
the obvious consequences of their actions,00:04:35
and our country wouldn’t be where it is now.00:04:39
As of 2023, however, a “what have you done,
dimwits” rhetoric won’t bear any fruit.00:04:51
We’re talking about the people who, on the one hand,
understand — they must understand — where we are headed.00:04:58
They realize the war won’t be over while Putin is
in office, but it can’t last forever, either.00:05:04
Changes are only a matter of time, medium term at worst.00:05:08
On the other hand, these people possess enough
resources to catalyze these changes or drag them down.00:05:15
That makes those people the main
audience of our discussions.00:05:20
We may tell them, “Once we seize the power, we’ll hang
y’all, you bastards!” But that’s what Putin tells them.00:05:29
They’ll hang y’all, you bastards,
so stick around. I’m your last resort.00:05:34
Or we may tell them something completely different.00:05:36
We may use the example of the Georgian
reformation of the early 2000s.00:05:41
Prior to the reforms, roughly 100% of Georgia’s
adult population were complicit in tax evasion.00:05:47
Some people and companies did it on purpose; others
simply didn’t know the taxation system was in place.00:05:54
The same went for corruption.00:05:56
Any interaction with the authorities, be it a police officer, a
school principal, or a minister, involved greasing their hands.00:06:04
That was the premise.
The new government could have said,00:06:08
“We’ll recall all your misdeeds in the 1990s, charge you all
that you owe, and lock up everyone who bailed on taxes.”00:06:18
Such reforms would result in the
new government’s collapse within a week.00:06:23
The team of then-president Saakashvili, headed
by Kakha Bendukidze, chose a different path.00:06:27
“New year, new life,” they announced. “We’ve modified
tax legislation, passed bills against corruption,00:06:38
so now we all abide by the law.00:06:41
Whatever sins you had in the past, forget about it.
Come to the tax authorities, grab your folder,00:06:49
and either burn it or frame it.
We don’t care.” Quite literally so.00:06:54
That’s what happened in Georgia, and if
we want some positive changes in Russia,00:07:01
we realistically have to adopt a similar approach.00:07:03
We’d have to say, “That’s right, dear
ministers, oligarchs, deputies, and senators.00:07:09
Your past calls for lengthy prison terms, no doubt.00:07:13
Most of your property is acquired in such ways and
circumstances that any claims to its legitimacy is a joke.”00:07:23
But we understand that you
followed the proposed rules.00:07:27
Breaking the law wasn’t your prime target, it was
a by-product of your position in the system.00:07:32
And we aren’t bloodthirsty, we just want to
sit down and ponder our future together,00:07:38
for which we basically have two options.00:07:40
Option one. You do nothing, and enjoy
your palaces, private jets, and yachts.00:07:45
You espouse a delusion that Putin is immortal,
he’ll ninja his way out of any situation,00:07:50
and some miracle will keep your lifestyle.00:07:54
You may survive in this condition until some inevitable end,
political or physical, which wouldn’t be much different to you.00:08:01
You’ll enter the future under unpredictable conditions.00:08:07
The state of the country, its new ruler and the new
policies won’t have anything to do with you.00:08:15
Option two. You work for the future to come sooner,
and arrange its advent on your conditions.00:08:22
You may have to wave goodbye to some of your
assets, pay a sort of privatization tax,00:08:28
and endure the audit of your activities under Putin.00:08:33
But that’s it. No prosecution to those who weren’t
directly involved in warmongering and war crimes.00:08:40
No jail, no restrictions, and no bankruptcy.00:08:44
All the assets remained after the audit and taxes — more
than you can spend in hundreds of lives — it’s all yours.00:08:52
You won’t be subjected to remand prison hopping,
house arrests, and other Putin’s tricks.00:09:00
Your lawyers and accountants will spend some
time with governmental lawyers and accountants,00:09:06
suss out the amount of money you owe
to the state, and that’s it.00:09:11
You’ll likely be barred from government service.
I’ll likely have to pay quite a fortune.00:09:19
But all you’ll have left won’t depend on the current
elected president or parliament’s configuration.00:09:26
All the estate, cars, factories, and bank accounts will be all
yours. You’ll be able to pass it down to your children.00:09:34
Throughout human history, the elites, those who had
something to lose, were the main beneficiaries of property00:09:39
rights protection institutions.00:09:42
Even if you amassed your fortune by breaking the law, you
wish the law, written in stone and supported by the court,00:09:48
to protect your treasures.00:09:51
The law that won’t die of old age, wage a
war, or inflict economic sanctions.00:09:56
You, like no one else, understand it.00:09:58
That’s why you siphoned your money off to the U.K.
and Cyprus, where the law protects your property.00:10:06
That’s what we’ll have, too. After you agree to play
by the new rules and pay the compensatory tax,00:10:15
we’ll pass a constitutional
amendment to ensure your rights.00:10:19
This isn’t a discussion about pure good and pure evil,
this isn’t a witch hunt or branding Putin’s puppets.00:10:27
Nor is it a passionate revolutionary spiel.00:10:30
It’s quite a rational proposal: you rather wait for an
unavoidable end or work for the future on your own terms.00:10:38
Judging by the Russian oligarchs’ activity abroad, we
can tell the elites are down with the second option.00:10:43
They are ready to sacrifice parts of their
assets for what’s left to become their property.00:10:49
Real property, respectable property, property that no one
strives to confiscate as an offshoot of Putin’s regime.00:10:58
The problem is, no one is eager to take their money,
even when it comes to supporting Ukraine.00:11:05
It goes without saying that everyone directly involved in
starting the war, those who committed war crimes,00:11:13
those who promoted it in propaganda —
all of them have to face punishment.00:11:18
And for us, citizens of Russia, it’s
preferable if the war criminals will answer00:11:23
to the reformed national court
instead of an abstract Hague tribunal.00:11:26
Every war crime will have to be investigated. Everyone who
murdered or tortured Ukrainians will have to be caught.00:11:33
Every ruble spent on the war will have to be tracked.
It won’t matter if it came from a state or personal fund.00:11:40
It’ll have to be done not only to incarcerate
dangerous people for all their crimes.00:11:46
It’ll have to be done to spark nation-wide
reflection and comprehension of the events.00:11:53
Our prime objective after the war will be ensuring
it’ll never happen again, not in this generation,00:11:58
not when those who witnessed
the defeat will come of age.00:12:02
RATIONAL CHOICE00:12:07
Good news is, if we set aside soldiers and officers who
committed crimes at the battlefield and occupied territories,00:12:15
if we count only the elites, the number
of trials will be measured in a few dozens.00:12:21
Not even hundreds, let alone thousands.00:12:26
Those will be the ones who committed real
crimes that resulted in real casualties.00:12:32
And those won’t be military tribunals, they’ll be real trials, with
attorneys, legal proceedings, fair investigations and sentences.00:12:44
The rest have no reason to fear the
changes and not to contribute to them.00:12:54
Moreover, the more these people stall, the
more they believe in Putin’s phantom luck,00:13:00
the more power is accumulated by those
who made themselves during the war,00:13:04
the more prominent the war’s economic,
social, and criminal consequences —00:13:09
the higher the chance to see those who aren’t inclined
to negotiations in the vanguard of the changes.00:13:14
Not the liberals, quite the opposite.00:13:17
Not those who’d be bothered with fair trials and
haggling the compensations to the country’s budget.00:13:25
Those who shoot first, ask questions later.00:13:28
It may seem impossible, but we’ve seen a lot of
impossible things happen within the last year.00:13:37
Over time, your positions don’t strengthen, and
your property doesn’t become more legitimate.00:13:43
Over time, the situation gets worse in an unpredictable way.00:13:47
We can’t tell where the point of no return is, when peaceful
transformations in Russia cease to be possible.00:13:58
In 2021, you may have considered
the future to never come.00:14:03
That the sluggish status quo you habitually benefited from will
last for decades. That the beautiful moment is everlasting.00:14:11
In reality, the new Russia is already here.00:14:14
It’s the Russia that has hundreds of thousand veterans of
the new war, where crime rates are skyrocketing already.00:14:20
Soon enough, the consequences of the war will combine
with each other, and the effects will be exponential.00:14:27
Soon enough, the redistribution of
property may be orchestrated not by Ph.D.00:14:32
holders but by those who mastered the art of headshots.00:14:37
What would be your leverage? A selfie with Putin?00:14:42
The tough part is, we have to convey these
simple truths not only to a simpatico crowd,00:14:47
not only to the political and business elite around Putin that
has a relatively positive reputation outside of that circle.00:14:51
We have to tell the same thing to
hands-down repulsive characters.00:14:56
We have to tell Deripaska (Putin’s oligarch):00:14:58
Dear Oleg, nothing in your life will change
for the worse after Putin’s gone.00:15:04
You’ll snap up a yacht triple the size of your
confiscated one, and travel the sanctions-free world.00:15:10
Do you miss Nice? You’re welcome. Enter the
U.S. or London as you enter your own palace.00:15:15
Speaking of which, do you want a new palace in the
Moscow Region? Knock yourself out! And you’ll own it.00:15:20
Your accountant will negotiate the
amount of money you owe to the state.00:15:29
Out of your $3 billion, you’ll only have $1 billion left.
So what? Back in 2011, you were formally worth $11 billion.00:15:37
But the last billion you have will be yours,
and no one will ever take it from you.00:15:43
But you may sit out until there are millions, not
hundreds of thousands, of veterans out there,00:15:48
who know a thing or two about killing people.00:15:51
And they’ll wonder who plundered Russia to the
condition we were forced to fight, butt naked.00:15:56
There’ll be no room for negotiations then, but you may
be allowed to pick a street light pole for your noose.00:16:02
That’s what Putin tells his elites: we’re in the
same boat, we be of one blood, ye and I.00:16:08
If it comes to hanging or firing
squads, we’re in this together.00:16:13
And to those who want to come clean,
there’s a file in FSB (KGB successor)00:16:17
for each one of you that would be enough for life
imprisonment. Win or lose, you can’t get rid of me.00:16:23
And our answer to this must be, “Yes you can!” We’re
perfectly aware what conditions you lived and worked in.00:16:30
We aren’t going to pretend that you’ve
lived in the U.K. for the last 32 years.00:16:36
We’ll present your FSB file wrapped with a fancy
ribbon, so in your legal palace you may cackle over00:16:43
the footage of your young self hunching down under
the pressure of a hundred-pound bribe in cash.00:16:49
You want to protect what you own. We need a peaceful
country with functional political and legal institutions.00:16:56
Our motives may differ, but we want the same thing.00:17:02
You have no option to sit it out:
the situation is worsening rapidly.00:17:06
You have a choice between the sooner future on your
conditions, which requires supporting politicians like us,00:17:14
and waiting for the end, where your perspectives
are grim and the luxury of choice is unlikely.00:17:23
Such manifestos impact the elites.00:17:25
They make them wonder, “Blow me sideways,
I’m in the sea of crap, and Putin isn’t a beacon here.”00:17:33
The opposite narrative is comparing Putin’s
elites to the most righteous ones —00:17:38
a comparison that can’t and never will be in their favor —
and threatening them with hell on earth for their disparity.00:17:45
Such approach sparks another thought,
“With Putin, I’m in crap, but with these guys,00:17:51
I’m six feet under. I'll have the former.” And that does nothing
to make the beautiful Russia of the future any more tangible.00:18:01
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