What do you think about the Western policies of imposing sanctions on Russia to suppress the opposition?
“There is no need to impose sanctions on Russia. Stricter sanctions must be imposed on those who plunder Russia, make its people poorer and deprive them of their future. packet of sanctions in support of “.
Let’s put it bluntly: For now, all sanctions were designed to avoid almost all important participants in Putin’s gangster gang. do you want proof? Name a real rogue who suffered. Airplanes, yachts, billions on the west coast—everything is in its place.
The leaders of the West, first and foremost President Biden, must show genuine decisiveness in the fight against corruption. First, stop calling Putin’s elite businessmen. Any Putin outlaw or mafia who calls himself a “businessman” is almost immediately seen as “one of our people”, a person you can do business with.
It is interesting that legislators understand this. The announcements from the leaders and participants of the Anti-Corruption Caucus recently formed in the US Congress are really on point. Representatives of the European Parliament are steadfast in banning oligarchs. But the executive branches on both sides of the sea clash with an army of lawyers, lobbyists and bankers fighting for the right of the owners of dirty and bloody money not to be punished.
That is why I call for targeting the oligarchs and malpractices personally. Such actions of the West will be fully supported by Russian society and will be a cause for joy. In the eyes of an ordinary person, these measures in particular will show that the West is not hypocritical – they are not all alike – and that in the end someone has stood up for the interests of the common man.
Does the threat of additional Western sanctions help keep you safe in prison?
It’s hard to say. On the one hand, with the population’s real incomes already declining for seven years in a row, Putin is sincerely worried that the new regional sanctions will cause Russia’s economy to collapse. On the other hand, the “I don’t give in to pressure” attitude long ago morphed into their trademark, irrational conflict. If they ask me anything, I will do the opposite, even if my own interests are at a disadvantage. As they say in Russia, “I’ll get frostbite on my ears, despite my mother.”