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The Eastern Border

Navalny’s poisoning. The fun parts!

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Greetings, Comrades!

Just before Christmas, boy, do I have a present for You! I haven’t laughed this hard while making an episode in a long, long while. And it’s about Navalny’s poisoning investigation and Putin’s press conference. It’s…a farce. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

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0:31.0

Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to this extra cheerful pre-Christmas episode.

0:39.1

We're going to get a Christmas special, of course, but right now, well, I just have to turn to politics at this given point because Bellingat,

0:45.5

the insider, CNN, and Der Spiegel together made an investigation about how exactly and who exactly poisoned divinely. Then we had Putin's press conference where he responded to BBC

0:53.1

questions about this in a very rude way.

0:56.8

I can just spoil for you just a bit.

0:59.2

He literally stated that in comparison to the foul west, Russia is basically white and fluffy.

1:06.8

Direct quote, mind you.

1:08.1

And then, then, literally, as the news just came out today,

1:11.5

Navinely just pretended to be one of his fellow FBI agents,

1:15.1

and just called his assassin,

1:18.2

one of the eight people implicated in this investigation,

1:21.6

and I just, like, pretended for about 50 minutes

1:25.0

to be one of the guys,

1:31.3

and basically squeezed out a complete,

1:39.2

complete recognition complete. Yes, we did this from him. It's crazy. It's one of the most fun things this year and, you know, after all the COVID stuff and after everything we've been through,

1:45.3

we need a bit of comedy,

1:50.0

and yeah, this is very Eastern border because this comedy involves death and poison eggs. But I just could be happier, and yeah, I'll be using materials from my friends in Medusa,

1:55.3

but I'll be quoting CNN as well, because they've been participating in the investigation,

2:00.8

and, you know, if I don't

2:02.1

have to translate something into English myself, if someone else has done the job, then, well,

2:07.5

thanks, CNN. I'll be fixing your translation mistakes because, well, you've done some things

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