Two years after Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine, and after a series of embarrassing battlefield setbacks, the tide my be starting to turn in his favour. But is he actually winning?
MOSCOW For most Russians, their country’s two-year war with Ukraine has long faded into the background of everyday life. “The average Russian is just waiting for this to end,” was how one Moscow resident described prevailing sentiments about the war. “The idea of 'let me live my life and leave me alone' resonates with many people who chose to stay in the country and are simply waiting things out,” he told The Moscow Times, requesting anonymity to speak candidly.
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Roher’s documentary gave the game away seconds into its own run-time when the director asked his subject, with barely-contained glee, to imagine a life after his own inevitable assassination that’s how enthusiastic and impatient Western leaders were to make a martyr out of Alexei Navalny. If I was in Pussy Riot I’d be sleeping with the lights on.