numbers. i bring this up now almost a full year after these demonstrations in russia because this happened at the beginning of the year and this ended up being kind of an appropriate first course for the year that we have had since. this has been a hard year. it has been a scary year at times. stuff we've covered here on this show over the last 12 months has only very rarely been good news. but what we've also been able to cover this year is people standing up in remarkable numbers, in remarkable ways, against remarkable adversity, people standing up for what they think is right, standing up for democracy. people standing up against tyrants and against abuse and violence by the state, violence by police. and we saw it certainly in very dramatic form in russia. but we haven't just seen it in russia. wechblt just seen it against putin. we've really seen it everywhere. over the course of the last year, i think it remains one of the most undercovered things