Anyone who’s watched like any documentary on Russia in the past decade recognizes this guy. He’s insanely intelligent, morally grounded, and incredibly brave. Honestly, I wish he was the leader of Russia. I’ll dream.
This interview was awesome. The way he speaks about seeing his family tomorrow is pretty touching.
Unfortunately, he’s not very well-known in russia, predictably, it’s a broken society.
PS: but let me add that this is a reflex of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years, where the hopeful population got deeply disillusioned with an ineffective idealist with his heart in the right place and a forced liberalization led by someone who was not up to the task, then followed by a putin who used this chaos to play the saviour to kill/imprison/exile/coopt the opposition and gain full control.
Anyone who’s watched like any documentary on Russia in the past decade recognizes this guy. He’s insanely intelligent, morally grounded, and incredibly brave. Honestly, I wish he was the leader of Russia. I’ll dream.
This interview was awesome. The way he speaks about seeing his family tomorrow is pretty touching.
Unfortunately, he’s not very well-known in russia, predictably, it’s a broken society.
PS: but let me add that this is a reflex of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years, where the hopeful population got deeply disillusioned with an ineffective idealist with his heart in the right place and a forced liberalization led by someone who was not up to the task, then followed by a putin who used this chaos to play the saviour to kill/imprison/exile/coopt the opposition and gain full control.