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And i am thinking of this. i'm like... i'm 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, i'm not saying we have enough tools to stop him right now, but we have to increase cost for him, like, both internally and internationally, in order to det...

Chanting, "stop the war!" the problem is, as you've 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, aren't 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 street protests. but is your message to these people in russia that they should take to the streets?...

The independent levada polls, it's 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 country's split. we have to work hard also to split putin's 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 what's 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 o...

Which we saw in that extraordinary address to his national security council — and we've 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 russian people? it has some, but very limited. putin definitely wanted to replay the crimea scenario...

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. it's always painful to get off heroin. but you are literally saying, like, "ok, it's so painful that i'll 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 have done it, like, a couple of years ago, the war would not be happening today — that's first. ...