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DALLS - Inside Putin’s Party: Internal Dossiers on Corruption & Criminal Ties · Gunther Fehlinger Podcast

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  Give you the floor and you can present your study.
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  Hello everybody, this is Gunter failing us podcast.
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  We are developing very good because we are on the cutting
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  edge of all the issues. Tonight we are discussing about
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  the very important issue that's about Russia and corruption,
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  political corruption in the political party of Putin.
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  And of course, we are here very much against the United Russia
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  party. It's a terrible political
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  entity. We know it from the naval videos
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  and we have a lot of information and much more information has a
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  special guest who the nature of his sensitive work doesn't want
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  to be recognized. And that's why his mask at this
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  podcast here, it's on X, We met on X.
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  The account is called Dallas and they have a very good report
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  which they recently sent to me. And I decided then to invite
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  them here on this X live and also on my podcast to discuss
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  the findings and what's exactly going on in Russia, in the
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  United Russia party. And I would like to welcome you
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  very much Dallas. Please introduce yourself as
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  Dallas. We agreed.
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  And also then we discuss about the the recent report you have
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  published. Please tell us the floor is
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  yours. Welcome very much and thanks for
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  your amazing and important work. And also thanks for coming on
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  the Gunther failing a podcast. Please tell us the floor is
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  yours. Perfect.
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  Thank you very much concert and thank you for having me on your
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  program. It's really an honour.
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  And also I want to thank you for your consistent advocacy for
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  Ukraine and also for translating your Atlantic security
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  architecture. You're doing an amazing job and
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  we really appreciate it. Also, it's important that we
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  still cover Ukraine even if the attention shifts elsewhere.
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  Obviously, Iran is the most important now for many media,
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  for pundits, for lots of X and youth audience.
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  Still, the war in Ukraine and situation around Ukraine doesn't
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  disappear. And for us, it's unfortunately
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  it's not a news cycle, it's a situation that takes place
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  Delhi. So just briefly for your
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  audience, why I'm not showing my face today?
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  I am part of Dallas, which is a company, private company of
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  analysts and security researchers.
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  Mainly we focus on investigating network connecting to Russian
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  state, connecting to Russian military industrial complex and
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  also to different function of Asian schemes and operations.
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  And since many of our team members operate not just inside
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  Ukraine, but also from Russia, from South Asia, from European
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  Union, our exposure could create serious security risks.
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  Hopefully when the war is over, we are able to go public and you
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  wouldn't be able, you wouldn't need to fight our faith.
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  That's a short intro. Introduction Now let's discuss
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  about your recent report which you sent to me, and let's
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  explain a little bit the finding of your work.
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  Absolutely. So our general aim, the aim of
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  Dallas is to expose the system that allows Russia to continue
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  its war. And therefore we also focus on
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  topics like how international networks support Russia's war
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  effort. For example, we documented
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  something violations involving global oil field services
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  company called SLB Schlumberger. Probably many of your audience
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  know about that. We also helped stop plant
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  transfer of special equipment that was intended for use for
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  Russian missile guidance systems.
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  Also the covered so-called Russian shadow fleet which is in
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  the news daily as well. In addition to Iran recently
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  also investigated Belarus automobile manufacturer Belas in
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  Spice with Russia and North Korean Defence Corporation.
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  And all these cases they illustrate basically the same
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  pattern. So Russia's war economy really
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  depends heavily on international international networks and
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  intermediary who either look the other way or who operate in this
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  legal or deliberate or deliberately violate sanctions.
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  So coming back to our latest investigation and something
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  different, but also equally important and thank you once
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  again for asking me to talk about it.
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  This investigation features the political infrastructure behind
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  the Russian regime, and while many people, they tend to focus
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  on Russian military power, on its military might or
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  ethnicities in the news all the time, other things are also
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  highlighted. This political control system
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  inside Russia is, I think, equally important to sustaining
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  the war. And therefore, what we wanted to
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  highlight with our investigation is this secret office
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  responsible for waiting candidates for United Russia.
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  For those unfamiliar with it, this is the ruling party that
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  supports Putin. And essentially, it controls
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  nearly all governorships and regional legislatures.
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  So essentially, our story with this big introduction it it
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  helps explain how the regime maintains political stability
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  necessary to continue the war. And for Russia, as you well
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  know, political stability is paramount.
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  So the main character of of the article of the story is retired
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  Lieutenant General of the Federal penitentiary system,
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  Yevgenic Nedo. He is in his 50s nowadays and
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  during his time working in prison, he was responsible for
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  comic ensuring safety of convicts and staff, which in
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  Russia, as you and many others will know, is something of a
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  joke. Human rights groups extensively
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  documented that ensuring safety often translates of maintaining
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  A torture apparatus, especially it's it's visible when Ukrainian
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  defenders are coming from prisoner exchange and they
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  document this excessive use of torture beatings and what all
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  it, it's just absolutely terrible.
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  But the same system operates also for other individuals, for
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  Russians themselves. And the system basically is
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  enriching themselves in cooperation with criminals.
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  So Russian security officials, Russian prison officials and
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  Russian criminals, they run the system together.
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  And our main character, our Lieutenant General Ganedov, was
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  put in place to oversee it, to make sure that everything works
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  well. He was doing that up until 2021
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  when there was a leadership shake up because of the bloody
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  riot in one of the prison colonies in Irkutsk region.
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  Media documented huge exportion and corruption scheme related to
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  illegal logging of valuable timber, which was then smuggled
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  into China. And once again, this is for
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  Russia, it's, it's nothing new, but for Western audience it's,
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  it would be really surprising. Despite of all these crimes,
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  Ignado and other prison officials were implicated.
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  He doesn't end up behind bars. Instead, he's going to United
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  Russia party. He's installed as the key
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  advisor to party Secretariat and he works with top people there.
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  As you all know, the head of the party is former Russian
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  President Dieti Medvedev, who really likes to threaten the
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  West and basically the whole world when he he wants to make a
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  point when the situation demands it.
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  So it was. Once the hope for liberal Russia
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  under Hillary Clinton, but he is now a completely dark and
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  sinister figure as the head of the United Russia party.
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  And he's threatening us often with nuclear weapons when he is
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  sober and when he's drunk. We don't like him.
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  Exactly this is this is his role as AI don't know as a one more
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  Mongarian politician that just, you know, likes to put all all
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  these threats. I I hope most of them are empty
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  and I hope western politicians realizes that.
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  So getting back to ghetto, what he's doing as his key advisor,
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  he overseas all the matters, all the Super sensitive matters
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  related to party security, to intelligence gathering, to
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  interaction with security services.
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  Once again, the security or siloviki as we should say in
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  Russian, they really run the state and therefore his duties,
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  They are super important for Russian elite and also for them.
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  And what is what you do highlight in the article is that
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  he has unprecedented access to raw operational intelligence and
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  surveillance data, not just about some potential candidates,
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  but about all United Russia party members.
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  And it's not just some criminal records.
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  Normally when you have an election, the candidates would
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  need to fill in a form or ask for their record whether they
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  have or they don't have criminal convictions.
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  But Canedo has this data that is far larger than simple records,
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  whether a guy or lady were behind bars or not.
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  And I should point out that we got this information via our
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  submission channel on Dallas website.
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  We cross checked it and every media interested in the story,
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  every analyst interested in the story are able to do the same.
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  We will provide them full archive, full data set of this
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  data so they can make a conclusion that there are no
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  interference with the data and the conclusions we are making
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  from from the files are genuine. So getting back to the story, I
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  I digress a little bit. So normally this regular
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  parties, they conduct background checks, but Nado has something
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  for more extensive or Mauritian. And in the beginning of the
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  story we highlight, for example, that according to United
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  Russians internal files, internal files, not some media
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  publication, but internal files. Senator Karen, Senator Gennady
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  Yakubov has been identified as the key member of an organized
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  corruption ring which was involved in storable city and
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  district officials. Once again, this are not
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  assumption of and what I would be telling now and a little bit
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  later, this are not assumptions of media investigation that you
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  can label as a smear campaign from some foreign agents that
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  you know, just makes stuff up. This United Trust's own
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  documents meant not for the public eye and unfortunately for
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  them, we received this data from a whistleblower and now we are
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  telling your audience about it. So once again, you have a a
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  current senator who his own party labels as a member of an
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  organized corruption ring, who for example has holdings of
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  multiple estates, who controls Asphalt Plan City Cemetery has
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  total control over housing and communal services, which is
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  something that requires probably an investigation for law
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  enforcement. Of course, this never comes in
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  Western democracies. When such information would be
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  revealed either by media investigation or by some some
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  other ways, there would be a public uproar.
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  Security services or law enforcement would start
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  collecting the data. But in case of Russia, this
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  compromising data is known beforehand, so it's not
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  discovered after the elections. And still they would approve
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  this candidate, they wouldn't disavow him and they wouldn't
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  start any investigation. So this compromising data just
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  sits on his record and everyone inside United Russia, starting
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  from Medvedev and others, they know about it.
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  I have. Would you say that United Russia
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  party is basically like a criminal network and not a
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  political party? Well, I I would never call it a
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  political party. It's something of a, of a
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  different entity. And of course they are are
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  responsible for most of governorship and local
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  legislature, but they're just a behemoth, a criminal behemoth
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  that rubber stamps all the decisions that Kremlin would
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  make. So no, I I wouldn't call it as,
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  as a political party. And obviously with all the sham
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  elections that are prearranged in advance, it's, it's, it's
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  very hard to name it like that. Putin has now, with the help of
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  this power vehicle which he created himself, the United
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  Russia Party. He won, I think now 4
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  presidential elections, 4 in 2000, 1218 and 24, the fifth
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  one, yeah, actually. And he is being ready to try to
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  understand why he's winning the elections.
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  Is he so popular, or is the United Russia such a powerful
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  vehicle of control of financial resources, of the jobs in the
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  administration? How does that really work?
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  Listen, it's everything you mentioned.
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  Combined they're really good in just crushing the competition or
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  putting up those so-called controlled opposition that just
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  really mean nothing to the voters.
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  And there there would be no choice with, for example,
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  independent candidates, real opposition parties.
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  I'm not saying that they are not allowed to run, they are not
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  allowed to develop. Any grassroots activity is
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  crushed. Therefore, if you are a
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  bureaucrat and you want to arrive through the rent, your
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  only choice is United Russia. It's like Communist times.
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  But because of the war in Ukraine, everything is much more
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  controlled. Everything is there are no
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  dissented voices and you are either stay silent or you just
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  vote yes all the time. And how does it work on the
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  local level, Basically in the city administrations, what's the
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  mechanism of fundraising for this party?
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  Is it a state funded or is it a corruption network which leaves
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  very much of kickbacks from the procurement, controlling the
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  employment in the municipalities and in the oblasts?
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  How does that really work, this mechanism of staying in power so
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  long? Well, once again, United Russia
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  operates hand in hand with local infrastructures, so local, for
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  example, governors, local security officials.
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  So there are no distinction between being a parliamentarian
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  and being a member of Russian executive power.
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  Just let me give you another example of of of high profile
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  individuals that we assess and we have in in the files.
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  For example, we have guys who are mentioned as members of
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  organised criminal groups and they still are a member of of
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  regional parliament and their own United Party party list.
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  One of them is, for example, the head of Tuva regional branch of
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  United Russia, and his name is Kanul Timuruvikdawa.
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  According to United Russia's internal assessment, his
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  political career was forged through a direct alliance with
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  Anderwald. When he was elected deputy, he
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  had an active support of representatives from organized
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  groups and this backing was reportedly provided in exchange
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  for future protection and political patronage.
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  So once again, not a normal political campaign and not a
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  normal support you can expect. Another high risk profile that
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  we mentioned in the article is Alexander Boechenko.
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  This political feature in Parenchry and he's currently
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  serving as the deputy of the Legislative Assembly according
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  to the files compiled internally by our Yogenik Neto his
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  political career is inseparable from business enterprises and
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  essentially he's his companies have.
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  Documented significant anti corruption and environmental
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  violation and risks. For example, investigative
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  materials accuse him of environmental damages totaling
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  over 3 billion Russian rubles attributed to his enterprises.
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  The DOS here also reports that Bochen could try to mitigate
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  this legal threats by leveraging his connections inside Russian
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  government. So local authorities, they
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  wouldn't even seem to investigate him.
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  And also in the same memo, internal memo for United Russia,
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  it is mentioned that Bochenko is involved in this alleged his
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  alleged criminal connections. Once again, we are not talking
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  about a media investigation. We are talking about internal
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  assessment of United trust, not just candidates, but already
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  public officials. Let me give you another example
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  also about regional leadership. There is there is a profile of
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  Svetlana Ivanova in our article. She is a powerful figure in
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  regional politics in Tumen, where she serves as the head of
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  Tumen Municipal District. Nowadays she is the chair of
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  Tumen City Duma since 2023. Internal documents formed here.
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  Gas industry in Siberia, it's very, very important.
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  Exactly. And what do you think is a
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  profile here, a document here from United Russia, this
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  internal party does here paints a picture of systemic grafts she
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  is involved in. So she was, for example,
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  crushing allegedly, according according to the files like NEDO
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  compiled, not for public use, for internal use.
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  She was crushing the municipal enterprises into the work in
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  public labour and funds for her personal use.
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  Local heads of utility companies had to pay her regular dues,
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  regular fees for protection. Once again, we are talking about
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  a public official. We are not talking about the
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  gangster. But still, she had this system
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  in place and if you are not agreeing to pay, you're out,
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  you're out of the job and you can't get it anywhere.
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  Quite a crazy system, to be honest.
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  And when we were analyzing all the files, I don't know it for
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  us, it was, it was just crazy. What they want to highlight as
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  well is a guy from his military connection.
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  It's it's also important. And he's also from Crimea.
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  The name is Alexander Kombaro, former military officer, and he
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  is the deputy of the State Council in temporary occupied
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  Crimea. He is all over the place in
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  Russian media as a veteran advocate, as legislative leader.
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  We found multiple public engagement and probably he's
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  eyeing the state federal elections as well.
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  He's planning to take part in them when all these all Crimea
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  and occupied parts of DPRLPR and Central Asia and Herson region
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  would vote in the elections and would send deputies to Moscow.
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  So this guy works as a deputy in Crimea now.
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  At the same time, five years ago, military court convicted
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  him for extorting money from his own subordinates, from his own
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  soldiers. Then when she was commanding a
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  reserve battalion in South and Front Command, he was involved
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  in weapon smuggling. Can you imagine a guy serving as
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  the commander and he traffics weapons from the front lines?
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  It's just absolutely crazy. So he does that according to
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  United Russia own files and they still promote him and he still
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  appears publicly as a military veteran.
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  It, it tells you something about, about the Russian
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  political system when they knowingly allow such guys to, to
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  conduct, to, to represent them as a political face of united
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  party. So this post here that we put on
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  our website, it also mentions that the guys serving under him,
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  the soldiers serving under him, described Kumbaro as a man
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  defined by amoral behavior, heavy alcohol abuse and
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  compulsive addiction to gambling.
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  He was also involved in misappropriation of humanitarian
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  aid for the frontline units. So I don't know.
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  For me, for me, it says a lot and I don't know.
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  Dallas, let me ask you a political question, because you
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  know that the European Union is a lot of discussion that Ukraine
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  wants to come to the European Union.
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  And one of the argument which the opponents of Ukraine is
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  always using is that Ukraine is very corrupt.
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  And because you're from Ukraine and you're now working and
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  investigating on corruption in Russia, what's your take and
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  what's your perspective? Which is the more corrupt
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  country, Ukraine today or Russia Today?
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  Well, I wouldn't be willing to compare Ukraine with Russia.
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  It's, it's, you know, I would rather compare it with countries
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  that became part of the European Union or who transitioned from
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  Poland, for example, the transition from communist times
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  to becoming one of the powerful members of the of the union.
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  And what differs Ukraine from Russia is independent anti
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  corruption bodies that can track corruption on the highest level,
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  including on the level of members of parliament, something
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  that can never happen in in Russia.
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  And all the files we list in the article, there are many more,
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  but we just list a few of the cases.
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  They show that in Russia it's just a way to control
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  parliament, either on central or local level.
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  All this, all this background compromising data.
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  In Ukraine, it would be something different.
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  Of course there are issues and there are systemic problems and
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  quite often you see them in the news.
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  But what gives me hope is that not just the society is
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  changing, but the government itself is changing.
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  And the anti corruption bodies, they are becoming more powerful
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  and they have strong international backing.
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  And also if you consider the elites, the Ukrainian government
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  for, for example, these are people who are educated in the
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  West, who speak very good English, who understand Western
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  values. And of course they will, they
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  need to break difficult systemic problems, but they are trying,
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  they are genuinely trying to do it.
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  And it's really important that there is pressure from Western
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  institution that you as as media or as persons of who influence
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  public discussion. Duty Pines it.
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  And also we have internal checks and balances, so I wouldn't be
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  comparing Ukraine to Russia. Actually, our former president
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  Kushma was famous for his book titled exactly that Ukraine is
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  not Russia. So I I don't want to make that
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  comparison. Dallas let me ask you, the most
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  famous anti corruption crusade of Russia is was Mr. Navani.
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  He actually died because of his campaign.
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  And in one of his videos he made a very detailed report about
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  United Russia official for Moscow who was involved in very
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  dodgy real estate transactions, basically selling, buying state
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  land, gaping building permits and putting it in the name of
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  his late 80 year old mother and then buying houses in Austria.
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  And it is a quite famous video because Navalny went even to
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  this key hotel in Austria and was then visiting this hotel and
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  he had all these things very much documented.
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  My question is, because Navalny was killed for this work, is it
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  not very dangerous to investigate United Russia?
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  Do you also work with the Navalny Foundation together, or
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  do you have similar cases connected with fire officials
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  and land transactions in your research and your report
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  available? These are the reports we tried
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  to coordinate and to promote it through the work of
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  international media. So we didn't reach out to
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  Navalny team specifically. Of course, there are important
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  actors that also expose corruption inside the country,
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  but we focus on international media that also broadcast or the
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  right creates their content in the Russian language and we pass
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  them this information. If they would be interested.
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  Of course you would, you would do everything to help them to
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  provide more information and to make sure that all this is is
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  visible. And actually it's the .1 of the
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  points of our Dallas project. So on our website, we have big
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  data sets about different companies, different Russian
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  companies, different Russian individuals and either media
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  representatives or analysts or researchers from university can
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  get access for free and they can study the files.
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  They can use them in their research or in their
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  publications. So we do want to highlight this
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  case, but we don't work with specifically Navalny Foundation
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  on this topic. And from the danger, is it not
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  very dangerous work to investigate in this direction?
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  Well, we try to protect our sources as much as possible,
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  especially those who are inside Russia.
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  And indeed the state, the Russian state is making sure
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  that not just public dissent, but any kinds of independent
• 32:30
  journalism is, is not available in Russia.
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  So as as you will know, in the start of the war, they closed
• 32:38
  most of the public registers. They tried to hide information
• 32:43
  about their economy, about many other things that would be of
• 32:48
  interest to general public, and they would hide such information
• 32:53
  from their own citizens. For example, this data is just,
• 33:01
  you know, it's, it shouldn't be seen by Russian citizen, not not
• 33:04
  because they don't want to see it, but because they just do
• 33:08
  window dressing and they keep this narrative about war in
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  Ukraine's surrounded fortress and and whatnot.
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  It's much easier to control populations that way.
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  And also if you see videos of Russian prisoners, for example,
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  we talk with Ukrainian journalists and who make a case
• 33:33
  of why did they join the army? Why did they go to fight?
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  Their main case is not they were interested in demosification or
• 33:44
  they were not, you know, happy with values in the European
• 33:49
  Union. Their main case quite often is
• 33:53
  that Russian state created such conditions, whereas the only way
• 33:57
  to survive is to join the army, Especially if you're not from
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  Moscow of Saint Peter book. But when you are from these
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  small towns and and villages, and of course these smaller
• 34:14
  regions, these poor regions, they don't have enough finances.
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  With all this official, they are corrupt, they get reached every
• 34:24
  day and no one is doing anything about it.
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  Their own party proudly stands behind them.
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  So the United Russia party is also internationally active,
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  famously the Austrian Freedom Party, friends of Putin in
• 34:41
  Austria. They have concluded the
• 34:43
  contract. Do you find out something about
• 34:46
  international corruption as well and their mechanism?
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  How to buy friends in other countries in the European Union?
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  Or was this not part of your research?
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  No, we didn't focus on that specifically, but many
• 35:00
  investigative units documented different tactics Russian state
• 35:09
  uses to also to coordinate with allies, so-called allies inside
• 35:19
  European Union to boyfriends elsewhere.
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  This is all documented, but it was not part of our research.
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  Let me ask you, when international journalists want
• 35:31
  to contact you or other US and experts, you are ready to
• 35:36
  cooperate with them and you want to provide more information
• 35:39
  about the corruption inside the Russian political system to
• 35:42
  them? Absolutely.
• 35:45
  Primarily, we are focused on Russian military industrial
• 35:48
  conflicts and sensitive evasions, but we just got hold
• 35:52
  of this particular data and we highlighted it in the
• 35:58
  investigation. We hope media would continue
• 36:02
  researching the data. If there are interested media
• 36:06
  representatives, they are welcomed to contact us either
• 36:10
  through our website dallasanalytics.com or through
• 36:15
  our EX account so there wouldn't be a problem.
• 36:21
  We are keen to work with both civil society and media
• 36:26
  representatives and researchers. This is very important work
• 36:32
  because it's basically the backbone of the Putin's power.
• 36:36
  And this is the political party he created.
• 36:39
  This is how he controls the public opinion and the
• 36:42
  governmental resources. This is how he funds his party
• 36:46
  and this is how he keeps in power.
• 36:48
  And this is also his kind of claim to legitimacy in Russia,
• 36:52
  because with this party and his manufactured election result, he
• 36:57
  always pretends inside Russia and externally that he public
• 37:01
  support for his genocidal policies, which he does.
• 37:05
  In reality, he has lost the public support as law a long
• 37:08
  time ago, but he is controlling media, public resources on all
• 37:14
  level of governments with this kind of very corrupt and
• 37:18
  collusive network, which he created and called the political
• 37:22
  party the United Russia Party. It's one of the worst crime
• 37:26
  organizations on the world, and I'm very happy that Dallas and
• 37:29
  his team are doing this really courageous and important work to
• 37:33
  expose this terrible organization and also to let us
• 37:37
  know at this podcast and on X what's going on in Russia
• 37:41
  because we want to debunk the myth that Putin is popular.
• 37:45
  He is just the mastermind of collusive corruptive networking
• 37:49
  in a way, and he has it to perfect it this way of
• 37:54
  controlling the society and the resources of this big nation,
• 37:57
  Russia, which I hope will lose that war and will also then
• 38:02
  basically be dismantled in the future.
• 38:05
  And my last question to Dallas, what's your information?
• 38:09
  You expected that the resources of Russia are dwindling and
• 38:12
  there is a little bit of instability emerging now in the
• 38:16
  fifth years of the war? Or does Putin's grip on power
• 38:20
  look solid to you from your perspective?
• 38:25
  Well, it's $1,000,000 question to be honest.
• 38:29
  What I can say is that the war is sustained not only by
• 38:33
  factories or, or weapons production.
• 38:35
  And we know there are systemic issues with that, systemic
• 38:38
  issues with the economy. The war is also sustained by
• 38:42
  political system when there are no political dissent and when
• 38:49
  there is unquestioned loyalty. And therefore the West Western
• 38:56
  institutions should put pressure on both sanctions and also
• 39:02
  public pressure. Therefore, it's it's it's
• 39:07
  extremely important to highlight such cases.
• 39:10
  And once again, I thank you and the audience for inviting me.
• 39:16
  In the show notes, I will also put the website of Dallas Park
• 39:19
  UA. Basically that's your website.
• 39:21
  I understand and you have a lot of reports, a lot of important
• 39:25
  and documents and I really appreciate that you came on the
• 39:29
  show, your courageous work. And also we have to expose
• 39:33
  Russia as it is. It is a corrupt, collusive
• 39:38
  network, criminal organization, ultimately run by a genocidal
• 39:43
  maniac. And therefore, you see also you
• 39:46
  have the link in the show notes here already.
• 39:48
  Thanks a lot. And then we have to win this
• 39:51
  war, not just militarily. And I'm confident Ukraine will
• 39:55
  build military, but we have to win it also institutionally and
• 40:00
  ideologically. And in the in the information
• 40:03
  fear, we have to explain and expose the corruption of Russia
• 40:08
  as it is as one of the most corrupt places countries in the
• 40:12
  world. And put in the mastermind of
• 40:14
  this corruption, who has perfected this corruptive
• 40:17
  control system from the municipality to the oblast to
• 40:21
  the region, to the federation level.
• 40:24
  He has really made it. His KGB masterpiece, this kind
• 40:29
  of corruption, and thanks to Dallas and his friends and his
• 40:32
  team to expose it and to end the system.
• 40:36
  And I hope that Russia will collapse under the tragic
• 40:40
  legacy, toxic legacy of corruption and a lost war.
• 40:44
  And this is what we're all working for.
• 40:46
  Thanks a lot, Dallas. This is really great work, what
• 40:49
  you're doing. Thanks for coming to the Gunter
• 40:50
  Failing, a podcast, and I wish you to discover a lot of these
• 40:55
  crimes of Putin and to tell it to the world.
• 40:58
  And thanks a lot for what you're doing.
• 41:01
  Thank you very much. It was a pleasure.
• 41:03
  Bye I. Will stop now.
• 41:06
  OK, very good.