audio regarding the connections of our respected lawmaker, meaning russian lawmakers with trump, manafort and the rest. i know a lot. i m waiting for your offers and waiting for you in a thai prison. she did end up in a thai prison and journalists did get in contact with her while she was in prison. journalists did go to the facility where she was being held in thailand to try to figure out what she was alleging and why she was asking for help. the new york times conducted an interview with her in thailand soon after that recording from the back of the police wagon in that interview she told the times she had a lot more information than she posted to instagram. she shade had more than 16 hours of audio recordings just from that trip on the yacht with oleg deripaska and russian deputy prime minister and said if america gives me protection, i will tell everything i know. as to what was on these alleged
from a russian courtroom, a district court in moscow this weekend. that court appearance follows her arrest at moscow s main airport on thursday of last week. what s going on with this story is this, this was february 8th of last year. you might recognize this guy. the guy who made this video and who you see hosting this video, it s alexa navalny. vladimir putin would not let him run against him for president of the russian federation. putin and his government lock up alexey navalny whenever they get a chance but february 8th last year he released this video and the video focused on footage and video footage and photographs that had been shot in the first instance by anastasia, that young woman arrested in the airport and in a cage in a moscow courtroom. her claim is she was hired to work as an escort on a yacht
trip in august 2016. that ended up being a story of national significance because while she was on the yacht trip, she shot footage of her host russian oligarch oleg deripaska and deputy prime minister of russia, the other guy with him in these images. these are photos of the two men aboard the yacht. on the video footage, these two men can be seen and heard discussing the relationship between russia and the united states. and again, this is august of 2016. it s in the context of the u.s. presidential election. and again, this video, these pictures, they were shot by this young woman during the u.s. presidential campaign in august 2016. he dug them up and made his video expo highlighting the footage last year in 2018 and we can date that release specifically because when he did that in february of last year, it basically broke the internet in russia. the russian government freaked out so badly about this expo say
freakout in response. meanwhile, this young woman who shot the footage, the woman who said she was working as an escort for deripaska on the yacht and made the recordings and posted them on her instagram, when this blew up in february of last year, she was in thailand where she was she involved in a sex seminar for russian-speaking tourists. i don t know. there is an international sex tourism trade in thailand like a lot of countries. people that participate in that sex trade in thailand sometimes do get arrest in that country. when anastasia got arrested for participation in the sex seminar, her treatment by thai authorities seemed to be inflected by the fact she had been the source and in someways
that he was running and that footage which it was based, it freaked them out so badly that deripaska and the russian government got a court in russia to block alexey s website. the russian government also took steps because of that, because of that footage of those two guys on the yacht, the russian government also took steps to try to ban all russian access to all of youtube and instagram. the yacht footage had initially been posted on instagram, the video was posted on youtube and the russian government looked and said the russian people will no longer get access to youtube or instagram. they tried that in response to that expose, it freaked them out so badly. nvavlny posted it. there is a russian government