[01:40 - 03:52] Yuri's Early Anti-Corruption Crusade and Its Far-Reaching Impact

It was very important for him to fight corruption. He, how do you think, perhaps he truly entered politics for this reason? You know, when Yuri entered politics, the understanding of 'corruption' wasn't really common yet. But, let's say, though it's very crude to use the word 'agenda,' that's what Yuri followed when he entered political activity. And this began with a legendary article that the journalistic community absolutely knows, published in Literaturnaya Gazeta. After his business trip, I think it was 1984, this was even before Gorbachev. It was a business trip to Rostov, and there, with the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Gurov, who was removed from work and investigation, and who later also became a State Duma deputy and even Yuri's boss. Can you imagine how the world, after so many years, from the nineties, almost 20 years after the event, he wrote a series of articles: 'The Lion Jumped' and 'The Lion Prepares to Jump.' And these articles, they were simply copied by hand. Because there were no computers or xerox machines back then. It was in Literaturnaya Gazeta; they were like a simply exploding bomb. Because Yuri described the mechanism of corrupt connections of that time, and there he also predicted what would happen next if this cadaver wasn't simply decapitated. Because this was organized crime. Organized crime where corruption was a kind of cement. But it was based on other things. Crime is based on conspiracy. And then corruption, even for Yuri, became a very important topic, corruption, but...