And from time to time when ive done this panel with friends and colleagues, ive called it on or off their pedestals. The debate over statues, memorials, memory and meaning. And ive discussed this topic at twice or three times with edna medford. And it is evolving even between us as we proceed over about a year and a half. And its a pleasure to welcome not only edna medford, but also liz varon and Gary Gallagher to join the discussion. Of 1,728 confederate memorials in 22 states and the district of columbia, 110 have been removed in the past few years. And three new ones have been built. So it is good to have the opportunity to take a snapshot. At best it will be a snapshot. And i think that we all have to agree that however we feel about art, ography and icons, history, and american heroes and villains alike, that the controversy over statues and memorials thought only attributed to confederates in the south and also to those, and for example and ill show you imanls, honoring figures i
Until we destroy putin, we will not become members of either the eu or nato. They will be afraid. That is, you think that you will win faster than we enter the e. Together we will win ours faster. We, we can do it without you. It is ours, it is our joint victory. Without you, you mean, without ukrainians . Without ukrainians. And you are a citizen of ukraine. I am a ukrainian, i am a resident of kyiv, but i am a ukrainian entrepreneur, i am a russian politician, that is, it turns out that you are a citizen of ukraine, you are fighting for power in russia, well, of course, who else, look, you , you see them, even they can, well, to be honest, gelman disappointed me the most, the most in your gathering, if we talk about the lviv gathering. Gelmans presence at this meeting, because i remember how marat gelman was one of those people who shaped politics in yanukovychs Campaign Headquarters in 2004, and he was quite active, by the way, he worked with medvedchuk then, well, here he was prese
Bring peace, so they are carried around with very good slogans, but i emphasize once again , you can carry around these slogans for a long time, like a fool with a written bag, but once again, for ukraine, peace is the absence of a threat from russia, peace is liberation of territories, peace these are contributions, these are reparations, this is the attraction of war criminals, that is, these are the consequences, where russia will no longer attack us after that. Tell me, please, what the peace summit is about, about what i announced, of course not, thats all, thats why. This is a chat room, for me it will be just a chat room, this is a political statement, so gather applause again, well, rating of applause for addicted zelensky, i want to see them, hear them, we remember how the whole world met him in the 22nd year, in the 23rd year, well, we still have to on the 24th, for me personally, this is not a peace summit, because even the expansion of the antiputin coalition is not envisag
In the evening, i asked you to send me any news that everything is fine with you. But on november 2, 2022, the woman did not receive any message from her son. Then the soldier went on a combat mission in the area between lyman and kremina. Not from him anymore came back he didnt want to say anything so that i wouldnt worry, although i supported him all the time, believed that everything would be fine. Our last conversation was four days before his death, he called me and i was at work, he says i want to talk to you, i tell my son, i am at work, talk, i can talk, no, you will be at home, dial me, please, i dialed him, we really had a very long conversation, we talked with him for more than an hour, i was always worried, cried, and that time when we talked. Very fun, we laughed rejoiced, he was very positive, as i now understand, he did not want to just upset, they knew where they were going. During that combat sortie, taras chaika was killed, but he saved his comrades who were traveling
Cooperate, and then where this opposition is, inside russia, outside russia, we are in principle realists, and to cooperate simply in order to maintain good relations, well, i think this is not our method, we we have to proceed from pragmatic some things, we need russian, russian opposition, in order for democratic elections to be held in russia, democratic elections cannot be held in the empire, the empire must be dismantled, well, this is such a program very, very much, and the population of the empire must go through a long enough the way for it to really be able to walk, participate in. Elections, the opposition must train the population, the russian opposition must train the population of russia after putin is removed from power, and the country, if it remains the same, in the same limits, as now, it will be to be, as we say, under the protectorate of the free world. For now, these are, well, forgive me farfetched plans, that i would rather talk about something more concrete than