A Russian news report exposes famous foreign agents, including Pugachyova, Galkin, and Makarevich, revealing alleged betrayals and political controversies.
Key Takeaways
- Many prominent Russian figures have been officially labeled as foreign agents, impacting their reputations and careers.
- The foreign agent law requires disclosure of foreign funding but does not prohibit continued activities.
- There is a strong narrative of betrayal and opposition to Russia among those labeled foreign agents.
- The video frames the conflict as an information war involving cultural and political figures.
- Legal and social consequences for foreign agents in Russia are significant and evolving.
What the video covers
- The video discusses the labeling of many Russian celebrities and public figures as foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
- Shaman, a singer, delivers a mysterious message promising to reveal compromising information about foreign agents.
- The video highlights several well-known figures such as Pugachyova, Galkin, and Makarevich, discussing their alleged foreign ties and criticisms.
- It covers the broader context of the foreign agent law in Russia, explaining its requirements and implications.
- The report accuses some individuals of collaborating with Western opposition and engaging in information warfare against Russia.
- Several cases of public figures who fled Russia or became involved in anti-Russian activities abroad are examined.
- The video touches on the consequences faced by those labeled foreign agents, including legal risks and social stigmatization.
- It also references political and military events such as drone attacks, the war in Ukraine, and related propaganda battles.
- The narrative portrays these foreign agents as betrayers of the motherland during difficult times for Russia.
- The video ends with a reflection on patriotism, loyalty, and the ongoing information war.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Shaman's Message
- 01:21Revealing the Foreign Agents and Dossiers
- 02:26Discussion of Specific Foreign Agents: Galkin and Shats
- 04:36Opposition Figures and Information Warfare
- 05:33Personal Stories and Consequences for Foreign Agents
- 06:46Maksakova's Case and Return Attempts
- 07:46Explanation of Foreign Agent Law and Its Impact
- 09:11Broader Political Context and Final Reflections
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
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We are so soft-hearted that such liability isn't even provided for at all. All these foreign agents of ours, they labeled everyone as foreign agents. They are laughing at us, these foreign agents. I mean, really, what does it matter to them that they are foreign agents? Hello, dear viewers, Star News is here with you. While we were preparing an episode about famous foreign agents, Shaman, standing at the American Embassy, recorded a mysterious message, promising he would not be silent anymore.
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A folder with a list of names has fallen into my hands. And very soon I will shed the light of truth.
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The second video stirred up the intrigue even more, and many people got burned then. My detractors are trying to persuade me not to publish the info from this folder and are even offering to buy it. But I am going all the way.
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And finally, our everything. Shaman. The heart of Russia. Moscow, Red Square. Shaman's third and final warning. I have no right to hide this betrayal. I will burn with the truth, like a Kremlin star.
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A man of his word. A day later, exactly at noon, the singer opened the folder with the compromising material. And there they were. With his new song about the motherland, Shaman forced those who dance to a foreign tune to sing a completely different song. Russia, my mother, you are truly the only one in my heart. But even after this, they cannot wash themselves clean.
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I am upset that he took my old photograph. In my current prime, I would have sung along more effectively.
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Now it is our time to perform, and our song about foreign agents, extremists, and other stars who left will hit the nail right on the head. For everyone on whom we have a dossier with compromising material.
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Painful, horrible. We present food for thought straight from the source, specifically from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. They surely know who here. Not one, you betrayed the country in a difficult moment for it.
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Where? I made my choice. I left there. I do not intend to return there.
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And when and I categorically do not accept what my motherland is doing in my name right now, as well as at whose expense? I feel like just a disgusting, vile snake.
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Some are fighting, while others are profiting from it. It is right here, in the center of Moscow, that all information about foreign accomplices flows. And it is from here that it returns back to them like a boomerang. The list of foreign agents now includes 1,211 individuals and entities who continue to smear the motherland. If we started listing everyone by name, there simply wouldn't be enough time. So let's go over at least those who need no introduction.
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Wait a minute, stop. Who do we have here? Or rather, who do they have.
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I see the camera lights. This was always pleasant to me, but now every video with my revelations could cost me another page in my criminal case.
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Ah, well everyone knows this character. Pugacheva's fifth husband and agent Galkin. No, guys, I’m not the first in this line who deserves criticism.
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Not the first, but the 431st. But I’ve certainly made as much of a mess as those who ended up on the foreign agent lists before me.
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The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has declared me a foreign agent. I don’t consider myself a foreign agent, but since I’m in the company of very worthy people, I will consider it a kind of award and solemnly slap this sign on my forehead that I am a recognized foreign agent. Such an award will always find its hero, wherever he may be hiding: in Israel, Cyprus, or Jurmala. You bought a ticket to the front row.
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Spin the drum further, and next are two boxes. Open either one, you won't lose.
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Both contain the foreign agent Shats. A foreign agent for ordinary people. I, I don’t know, Mikhail Shats is there.
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And his ex-wife Lazareva, who has already risen to the status of a terrorist and extremist. The peak of their fame and good earnings on television was already coming to an end. They made a decision for themselves and signed a contract with the opposition working for the West, becoming the faces of the protest movement. Shats and Lazareva are a means of conducting an information war against us.
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Literally every day we now encounter drone attacks on Russian cities. Yes. And, you know, it’s horrible, but I rejoice.
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Moving on. Number 517. Everyone thought he was a real guy, but Smolyaninov turned out to be a nobody.
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Living with labels like foreign agent, terrorist, or extremist is nothing to me. Smolyaninov said that Russia should be covered in nuclear ash. In what case?
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Everything is clear, of course. Listen, you’re that artist, right? The one who keeps screeching against Russia. You dim-witted sheep, stay here and wallow, the devil has left. A fake.
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Judas syndrome is seen not only in show business, but in business too. Yes, I was scared, but I did it— it’s dubious, but okay.
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Forgotten characters have long been doing their business on Russophobia, sitting out in Europe and creating various committees and subcommittees for the carving up and collapse of Russia.
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This is Misha 2% Kasyanov. He is a very wealthy man there. He doesn’t need anything, and he doesn’t need to return either.
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The fugitive oligarch Berezovsky wanted to return but didn't make it in time. The British removed his piece from the board when it became known that he had repented and sent a letter to Russia asking to be understood and forgiven.
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The fate of former State Duma deputy Voronenkov, who was also the husband of former State Duma deputy and singer Maksakova, turned out similarly. On the other hand, I understand that I am probably one of those quite successful counter-propaganda projects.
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Ukraine is my real home, you understand? Kyiv, I have always loved Kyiv, I often came here, even when I was living and working in Moscow. Moscow has never been a home city for me. It is such a difficult city. The family's escape from Russia in 2016 was considered a successful project in Ukraine, right until Voronenkov was shot dead in the center of Kyiv in broad daylight. And the widow, Maksakova, played along for four years, but then suddenly changed her mind and tried to return to Russia in twenty-one. Simply at that moment, journalists were recording every step the singer took on her native soil on video.
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Now, when I go to Moscow, I'm going with you, after all. Everyone thought she had come to her senses and realized what had been done to her.
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They simply flooded my soul with this black, devilish mass of theirs, just everything. They were suffocating me, they wouldn't let me live. That is all I can say.
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However, these admissions by Maksakova turned out to be just a smokescreen. Everything that was happening there was, of course, of a monstrous nature.
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What is she saying she regrets? I regret it insanely. In reality, she wanted to settle real estate issues in Moscow, and when the plan failed, the runaway singer went back to her old ways and is now raising money for the AFU in the Baltics. In
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the Russian registry, Maksakova is listed as a foreign agent under number 591. She looks for where it is warmer, where she is more comfortable, and she will say whatever she is told by those who provided her with a certain level of comfort. Such outsiders were considered insiders for a long time, living carefree and happy lives in Russia.
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The lady is having fun. However, the fun ended in February of twenty-two. That was when it became clear that we are not on the same path.
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What is a foreign agent in Russia, anyway? It is a person who engages in public activities for money from a foreign state. And this law does not even forbid them from continuing these activities. It only requires that the person discloses their sources of funding. Everyone has long known who is the first to flee a sinking ship. Deciding that the ship would soon sink, they ran to where they thought a well-fed life awaited them. All this seeping crap, it will leak out. But they aren't going anywhere. They will stay there, and I will go to s
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Now, when I go to Moscow, I'm going with you, after all. Everyone thought she had come to her senses and realized what had been done to her.
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They simply flooded my soul with this black, devilish mass of theirs, just everything. They were suffocating me, they wouldn't let me live. That is all I can say.
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However, these admissions by Maksakova turned out to be just a smokescreen. Everything that was happening there was , of course, of a monstrous nature.
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What is she saying she regrets? I regret it insanely. In reality, she wanted to settle real estate issues in Moscow, and when the plan failed, the runaway singer went back to her old ways and is now raising money for the AFU in the Baltics. In
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the Russian registry, Maksakova is listed as a foreign agent under number 591. She looks for where it is warmer, where she is more comfortable, and she will say whatever she is told by those who provided her with a certain level of
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comfort. Such outsiders were considered insiders for a long time, living carefree and happy lives in Russia.
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The lady is having fun. However, the fun ended in February of twenty-two. That was when it became clear that we are not on the same path.
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What is a foreign agent in Russia, anyway? It is a person who engages in public activities for money from a foreign state. And this law does not even forbid them from continuing these activities. It only requires that the
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person discloses their sources of funding. Everyone has long known who is the first to flee a sinking ship. Deciding that the ship would soon sink, they ran to where they thought a well-fed life awaited them. All this seeping crap, it
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will leak out. But they aren't going anywhere. They will stay there, and I will go to sing for them. For them, it's a nightmare.
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I want to close off Russia. Today, it is simply some kind of tumor. I would just close them off, yes, this country, with an iron fence and barbed wire, like some kind of prison. Which, in fact, it is today.
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As they say, tailwinds to your hunched back and good riddance. But from a safe distance, these expats began to sling mud at their homeland with their filth, as if on cue. Russia is guilty of so many terrible things and yet says it is
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not guilty. The atrocities in Bucha— that’s not us. The Malaysian Boeing —that’s not us. Uh, Mariupol was razed to the ground. That wasn't us. Uh , a missile is flying into Odesa. That was us, but not quite us. Everything is
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"not us." And what are we doing there? Sooner or later, there would be a price to pay for participating in the information war.
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Regardless of the person, titles, or status, everyone is equal before the law. You will be brought to justice.
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You will receive the punishment you deserve. Andrei Gennadyevich Alshevskikh. He sees a traitor from afar. Literally, he is the deputy chair of the State Duma commission for investigating foreign interference in Russia’s internal affairs.
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If you look at the history of laws regulating the activities of foreign agents, you have to start from 2012.
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The law we are talking about now is a more, I would say, a more modern version.
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All of Russia was patient for 10 years. What if they understand something and come to their senses? But they didn't come to their senses.
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We are so kind that we didn't even provide for such liability at all. All these foreign agents of ours, they declared everyone to be foreign agents.
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They are laughing at us, these foreign agents. Seriously, what does it matter to them that they are foreign agents?
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For example, in the most democratic United States of America, the title of foreign agent implies a serious prison term. The American legislator gives a person no chance; they don't put them on lists, they immediately charge them and put them in prison. For any
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cooperation with us, a person goes to prison for 20 years. I am not joking.
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Maria Butina was arrested just on the pretext that she didn't register as a foreign agent in America on time.
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Moreover, the terms start from 5 years up to 15 years and more. And what about fines, if you take that.
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There are no fines. There are no fines. There's no fine, just straight to prison.
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It’s straight to prison. Foreign agents in Russia have just a shameful label on the screen and problems with advertising. But it cannot continue like this anymore.
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Adjustments have been made to the laws. Maria Butina and Andrei Alshevskikh are among the authors of these amendments.
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People have a right to know whose interests they are working for. Who you are working for. And what’s wrong with that? Tell people honestly. That is where the foreign agent label comes from.
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These individuals will be prohibited from carrying out certain actions, as they say, on the territory of the Russian Federation. This includes re-registration of property, vehicles, real estate, bank account restrictions, and even the refusal of diplomatic assistance.
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Britain, Australia, and France strictly protect themselves from foreign influence. And in Israel, by the way, where a whole flock of Russian foreign agents flew off to, the system is the same, but that didn't bother anyone. A state where patriotism is not a bloated
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or artificial concept. And I am proud to be an Israeli. That is patriotism. From Moscow via London and on to Tel Aviv, Galkin fled with a sense of profound patriotism. Finding himself in the most peaceful country in the world,
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he added open slander against Russia to his repertoire. Mariupol was razed to the ground.
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That’s not us. Nothing is us. So what are we doing there? A missile flies toward Odessa. That’s us, but not entirely us. The Bucha atrocity— that’s not us. The Malaysian Boeing —that’s not us.
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With these bits, he is now served up at the tables of private parties for Ukrainian sugar daddies abroad.
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Palianytsia for the kiddies, for the mommies, and for the defense, the rifles. And now they are starting to try to repent, asking to return to the trough. You want to eat with them, don't you? Good Lord, what do my
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comrades think of me? Well, I’m not even talking about Pugacheva herself. The sums she used to take here for a twenty-minute performance at some event or a private function were already in the millions of dollars. Nobody there needs her.
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As if following in Maksakova’s footsteps, Pugacheva had to go back to her homeland to try to settle everything in high offices.
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I think, well, I’ll go and talk. And I look at the files on the table next to me about Max, what he said, how he expressed himself. However, it wasn't possible to reach an agreement. In the autumn of '22, Galkin received foreign
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agent status. And Galkin is a foreign agent. Yes, it’s not the funniest thing. How could one think about Galkin, about me, about the guys who left, Makarevich?
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By the way, Makarevich, like most of Madam Broshkina’s friends, is also an incredibly patriotic patriot of Israel.
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I supported Israel in its war; I supported the country where I live. In Russia, this patriot was recognized as a foreign agent two weeks earlier than Galkin.
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You shouldn't bend under a changing world. Let it bend instead. It didn't bend for.
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Even before the Pugacheva-Galkin couple fled Israel for Cyprus, they managed to host a feast during the plague for Makarevich’s jubilee in Tel Aviv. A huge thank you to everyone who came.
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Back then, almost the entire flock of departed stars flew in for this celebration. My migration began with the circumcision of Makarevich’s son.
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And it was a very appropriate event, because that was exactly when I realized what my migration would be like. Yes, it will be painful, but there will always be cheerful, kind, joyful, slightly tipsy people around.
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Quietly on a beloved path, we have succeeded. Sit there now and regret it. If only you had celebrated your jubilee in Moscow just a little bit less.
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The drunken cherry on the jubilee cake that evening was, of course, Alla’s comedian. Well wait, well wait, well Allosya, well I, at least I finally broke free from captivity. 100 grams is not an emergency brake. In the opinion of
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foreign agent Makarevich, the break between the first and second drink is small. Whiskey goes great here. Gin and tonic goes just beautifully in this heat.
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With eyes blinded by Russophobia, one can bleat any justification imaginable. I have made my choice. I left that place. I am certain that those living there today will have to deal with the mess they brewed themselves.
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Foreign agent Makarevich started singing this tune back at the very beginning, in 2014. This character gladly walked along the Boulevard Ring in Moscow under a blue-and-yellow flag and even toured in Ukraine. Yet he was forgiven for everything and, for some
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reason, tolerated. And someone writes the letter Z. To hell with him. When he finally left Moscow for good, the capital's air became cleaner.
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To them, I am still a Russian. That hinders me a lot. In September of '22, patience ran out, and Makarevich, who sponsors the Kyiv regime, was officially declared a foreign agent. On that same day and in that same year,
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his drinking buddy Shatz joined him on that list. This "fruit orchard" has come to visit us. In short, gentlemen, one must say Shana Tova. Shana Tova. And, in general , you aren't laughing. A year later, Anatoly Vaysman, a.k.a. Byel, joined
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this boozing company. You can congratulate me. I have just been informed that I have been made a foreign agent.
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If he had been labeled a foreign agent in democratic Israel, he would have learned the hard way.
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It is my deep conviction today that nothing good will happen in Russia for a vast amount of time, perhaps ever.
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Yet in "bad" Russia, for some reason, even such foreign agents are given a chance to reform.
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If a person gets on the list, they have the right to appeal their status and say: "No, my activities show no such signs." And there are examples of foreign agents doing so. Second point.
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A person can stop engaging in foreign agent activities, submit their documents to the Ministry of Justice, and say: "Yes, I was under influence, I worked there, say, for the US government, I was engaged in foreign agent activities." But they don't do
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that anymore. In an extreme case, they might not be given a prison term, but a broom in their hands instead. Work ennobles a person. So, this option is also being considered in the State Duma.
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Foreign agents are, as a rule, media-savvy, well-resourced people. They will go out with a broom there and start sweeping.
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But if they are to sweep, let it not be in Moscow, but preferably somewhere in Donetsk. There, they will also be explained who started it first. The only amendment to the foreign agent law that might cause them trouble was
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adopted quite recently. It concerns the seizure of assets, though in practice this measure has not yet been applied, even though foreign agents usually have plenty of property.
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I do not believe there are any people there who are not being sponsored. Those who aren't sponsored, they run back.
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Andrey Matus is a key figure in the high-profile detective story involving Madame Broshkina's treasures. He knows better than anyone who is footing the bill for this whole Russophobic banquet in Israel and Europe.
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He finances, let's say, everyone you listed. The Khodorkovsky-Nerzin group, to a greater extent, is not. Not practically everyone is under his control.
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Who pays the foreign agents and who is molding Galkin into a Zelensky—watch this and much more in our next video.
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