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And i am thinking of this. im like... im an ordinary man. and, of course, i do care about my family, friends and relatives back there in russia, and those who also live now abroad, part of my family. but, well, we are talking about something that could potentially result in a third world war, so... so i still have to do myjob. i still have to, like, organise our movement to try to make the situation as painful for putin as possible. well, im not saying we have enough tools to stop him right now,...

Chanting, "stop the war!" the problem is, as youve just said, your group is now legally defined as an extremist terror organisation. those people, if they take to the streets, are going to be arrested, arent they? people that participate in the street rallies now in russia face severe risks, not because we are doing something wrong, but also because putin is doing something wrong and because putin destroyed all opportunities for people to participate in politics, to participate in rallies and st...

The independent levada polls, its like 45 pro and 40% contra, which is bad news for putin, which never happened. he used to enjoy like 70 or 80% of popular support. so, now the countrys split. we have to work hard also to split putins elite, to install cracks within the elite that may help, well, to stop him. because there are people inside the government, around putin, who are very unhappy with whats actually happening. they are losing billions and tens of billions. they are losing, like, ties ...

Which we saw in that extraordinary address to his national security council — and weve heard in his writings as well — that ukraine is in essence a fake nation, that it really has no legitimacy, that it is run by a puppet regime which he now seems to be saying is neo—nazi in its politics, and that it is a fundamental threat to russia and russia has every right to re—exert its power in the ukrainian space. that seems to be his message. do you think that has any resonance at all with the r...

My question is again this, do you think those in the west are prepared to take that pain? they were not... even if they were not prepared, the time has come. so, first of all, like, let me rephrase. its always painful to get off heroin. but you are literally saying, like, "ok, its so painful that ill do it later," but later, you will still have to do it if you want to survive, but later it will be more painful, right? so the earlier you do it, the better. and if you would have — if you would h...

Is an extremely powerful force in russia, and that remains true, does it not? er, its not really so. and it doesnt work against ukraine. i mean, ukraine is our neighbours. 50 million ethnic ukrainians live in russia. almost every... almost every family in russia has relatives or close friends, or both, in ukraine. you just cant sell this nationalist idea, even through the most powerful propaganda machine, even through putins propaganda machine. it wouldnt work. leonid volkov, we have to end ther...

The world has been discussing russia, the results of russian parliamentary elections, no recognition of legitimacy of state dumas has been elected. something very painfulfor putin. the world was discussing alexei navalny�*s poisoning. there was a request of 55 countries, led by great britain, in the 0pcw, the chemical weapons organisation, targeting russia, threatening sanctions, asking questions about navalny�*s poisoning. there was a lot of buzz around alexei navalny�*s new trial and his...

And trying to use it. so this is something that, at least, is worth trying, because everything else we know already. all those diplomatic efforts of this, like, you know, shuttle diplomacy didnt work. another thought. youre an it expert. that was your specialism before you got into politics, and cyber warfare is something you study closely and know a great deal about. it seems right now that, again, russia is on the front foot. theyre very capable of disrupting ukraines cyber capabilities. theyr...

Threat to russia and russia has every right to re—exert its power in the ukrainian space. that seems to be his message. do you think that has any resonance at all with the russian people? it has some, but very limited. putin definitely wanted to replay the crimea scenario of 2014, when his invasion and conquer of crimea was unfortunately very much supported by the majority of russian population. this unfortunately happened, and all celebrities were supporting putin and there were no protest ra...

Because there are people inside the government, around putin, who are very unhappy with whats actually happening. they are losing billions and tens of billions. they are losing, like, ties to europe, where the assets and children and yachts and everything is. well, just a quick word on your colleague and associate, alexei navalny, before we get to those sanctions and the impact theyre going to have on people around putin, and putin himself. alexei navalny is back in court in his penal colony, fa...