BBCNEWS HARDtalk March 4, 2022 00:39:00
But i just wonder how you feel as an ethnic russian who's lived for so many years inside ukraine, how you feel when you see putin saying that. well, i mean, i know you know kyiv very well, and kyiv was... when i was a young man, 99% of kyivites were speaking russian. now there are probably 60—70% of kyivites who are russophones, who speak russian, or, at the same time, they can speak and understand ukrainian. so, i mean, the russian language was and remains very well—heard and used here, and nobody is punished for either speaking russian or writing books in russian or publishing books in r...