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Is an extremely powerful force in russia, and that remains true, does it not? er, it's not really so. and it doesn't 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 can't sell this nationalist idea, even through the most powerful propaganda machine, even through putin's propaganda machine. it wouldn't work. leonid volkov, we have to end there. but i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from california. thank you.

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 persecution, and also persecution of independent ngos and independent media in russia. that's all g...

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 didn't work. another thought. you're 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. they're very capable of disrupting ukraine's cyber capabilities. they're also very capable of disrupting your political activities on the internet. do you fear that, ...

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 rallies, and so on and so on and so on. and putin liked it, and maybe that was his expectation, that h...

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 on your colleague and associate, alexei navalny, before we get to those sanctions and the impact they're going to have on people around putin, and putin himself. alexei navalny is back in court in his penal colony, facing new charges which could carry up to 15 years extended to his current sentence. and in court t...