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Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome back to the eastern border, and my PC is fixed, and I'm doing well with not smoking, and a bit of a political episode this time because some things have happened

because wow also well we had to do a bit of a catch-up on all the other stuff that had

happened lately and personal issues also bit disturbed my my schedule but but that's okay

we're here now and let's take a look at what's happening in Russia,

around Russia, and in general over here in Eastern Europe. First of all, I would like to talk

about the meeting, the speech that Alexei Navalny and other opposition figures gave in the conference, the scheduled meetup, virtual, of course, in the Euro Parliament.

Basically, the main message was that EU politicians who say that they want to get tough on Russian President Vladimir Putin, they should stop coddling. Kremlin-connected oligarchs

and welcoming their wealth. That was kind of the main message, but in the end, well,

Navidne, if you remember, he survived an assassination attempt with a chemical weapon in August,

got treated in the German hospital, still haven't treated to Russia, and according to

Alexander Nizotov, another Russian journalist, he won't be coming back because, well, he'll get a bunch of cases on his head and everything.

And he and his colleagues and friends, well, from this Foundation Against Corruption Organization, yeah, he spoke in the hearing of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, and that he also stated that the EU should sanction individual oligarchs as cronies of a criminal state.

Now, they said it was a mistake to penalize mid-ranking officials,

even if they were directly responsible for human rights abuses,

because they do not travel or keep assets abroad.

And I'll quote here.

The main question we should ask ourselves is why these people are poisoning, killing,

and fabricating elections. And the answer is very, very simple. Money.

So European Union should target the money and Russian oligarchs.

Navalny accused European politicians of hypocrisy by allowing oligarchs,

who grew rich of Putin's authoritarian rule such as Alishar Usmanov and Roman Abramovich, billionaires who own stakes in United Kingdom's football clubs to keep luxury boats in European ports. Another quote, let me say it very straight. As long as the most expensive yacht of Mr. Osmanov is standing in Barcelona or in Manaco,

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