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Putin is persecuting them. I just said we shouldn't embrace. There's a lot of middle ground. Ask someone like Alexei Navalny or Mikhail Khodorkovsky why they
by Mikeb85 5y ago
Putin is persecuting them. I just said we shouldn't embrace. There's a lot of middle ground.
Ask someone like Alexei Navalny or Mikhail Khodorkovsky why they stayed to fight and be jailed instead of fleeing. Fleeing doesn't help.
Russia hasn't been conquered since the most recent Russian Empire was formed. But regimes have fallen from within...
- gspetr 5y agoStayed? Khodorkovsky hasn't stayed after he got out. And Navalny overplayed his hand. It appears he really thought it was about him, not the movement he had created, otherwise he'd have had his wife run for office, which is what wives of those arrested in Belarus did.