Did like a 30 min interview for CNN - only a 5 sec most basic comment remains. Oh well, that's how it works.
youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2Uo0…

#Telegram block and then unblocked?
Brings out the memories of simpler times, right позорище?
ridl.io/in-memoriam-ru…

It is somewhat symbolic that Putin most likely has no idea that the vision of 'historic Russia' he thinks he is fighting for - the one that he borrows from Solzhenitsyn is not alive among people killing for him in Ukraine.

this regime brings.
I have no immediate solutions - it is a call to recognize that it is possible to be thinking and working on Ukraine and Russia at the same time.
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want to save Russia.
But if this value-based argument is not working, think of this: a destabilized nuclear-capable resource rich neighbor that will eventually become China's vassal is not a great long-term strategy.
Do not write Russia off, no matter the horrors
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Turkish or Chinese flavor.
My point is simple - while Ukraine and its survival are the agenda of the moment - try to think ahead and see a future for post-putin Russia.
Do not shut off the idea that after saving Ukraine, you may need to work on helping those who
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joining the West and enjoying the freedom that democratic institutions promised. We've failed. But it doesn't mean there are no people who want that and can deliver. A Russia that is closer to Poland or Lithuania in its institutional design is much better than Russia of
14/17

Democratic Russia as also a priority, like some do now by saying that after the war is over it must be isolated and 'discarded from civilized world'.
The very positive logic of now mostly forgotten in Russia movement of the late 1980s was about 'becoming civilized',
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and preserve themselves for a moment that may not come soon and Putin is gone - are a problem, they make it harder to crush Russia with sanctions - 'send them all home'
Being naturally bias I am convinced it is impossible to successfully challenge Putin's agenda denying
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And i fully understand why Ukrainians would say that (I would have probably done the same, being in their shoes). Some even argue that reform-oriented Russian that are now in immigration and are desperately trying to inform those staying behind but mostly trying to survive
11/17

dictatorship, well known from its past. A failure of pro-democracy forces in the past 30 years to change the institutional design in the way that would make Putin and this war impossible'.
Many argue that this narrative is of no value and no importance today. 'You lost'
10/17

are quantifiably, quite rationally better than the multipolarity of tech-savy autocracies Putin promotes.
That is why Ukraine is so important.
And here comes the second narrative that is dear to me - it s a narrative of 'Russia's failed democratization and a descend to
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is a huge net positive.
Even if Arab Spring did not bring great success stories and lately there are a few concerns about what is happening at the core of transatlantic world - it doesn't mean it is not worth fighting for.
Because again, dem institutions and universal values
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