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Frankly, no, because youtube is not blocked in russia, and people are watching dozhd, tv rain, not even with vpn services, so it's open. but what is not safe, unfortunately, is to give comments to tv rain. we know three or four examples when people were fined for so—called discrediting russian army after their comments on tv rain. you've said in the past that you believe there are, as you put it, three different russias when it comes to opinion about this war. i'm interested in the third. i mean, it's clear what the first two are — there are those russians, and we've already discussed it, ...

When people were fined for so—called discrediting the russian army after their comments on tv rain. you've said in the past that you believe there are, as you put it, three different russias when it comes to opinion about this war. i'm interested in the third. i mean, it's clear what the first two are — there are those russians, and we've already discussed it, who are absolutely strong in their support of putin's war and his declared war aims. there clearly are a number of russians — and we've seen over the course of the war thousands of them — expressing dissent, and 20,000 and more h...

Of say president zelenskyy. >> then, on that note what should the west expect putin to do next? >> so i think what he's going to do is he's going to double down quite a bit on the kinds of things that he's doing right now. you will see more attacks on the civilian infrastructure, unfortunately. you will also see attempts, perhaps, to move russian forces a bit forward into areas of the donbas in the eastern part of the country that the russians have either lost control of or have not gains complete control of up until this point. however, ukrainians have have a lot of momentum on their side. th...

Trying to signal to the world that, infact, his trying to signal to the world that, in fact, his war aims have been reduced, the but they are not zero. he is not going to end this fight until he gets at least maybe crimea and donbas. they don't quite know what to make of it but they do know that putin doesn't like to be on the ropes for long and he will look for someone to change the conversation, which he has done. so this referendum or series of referenda is not going to be legitimate in the eyes of most of the world, as we have heard, but putin can still try to wrap himself in some kind of ...

Ukraine and russia must be prepared for a long conflict. this is just the early stages of this conflict, in my opinion. so, what the ukrainians must do, as i mentioned, is to gain offensive strength, offensive weaponry, and really plan to take back the territory that they have lost in this conflict in 2022 and then look to regain the territory they lost in 2014. but that will take a long e effort, a long, hard effort. >> are we at the point where nato and the u.s. maybe needs to have a conversation with kyiv, with president zelenskyy, maybe suggest that it's, you know, a pragmatic conversation...