One year ago when this invasion started the first thing our bond is said no no we are in utero we will not support sanctions. The next day Bundusrat said yeah we will support actions I don't think it's because of me but also Russian say my five topics just influenced this decision and now Swiss Bundusrat they don't want to support Ukraine with weapons. February the 24th 2022 a date none of us will ever forget how did this happen how did we get here?
Mikhail Shishkin is one of the most celebrated living Russian novelists and the only author to have won all three major Russian literary prizes. All his books have been adapted for the stage in Russia and they have been translated into 30 languages. In conversation with historian Victor Sebastyen Shishkin traces the roots of Russia’s problems, from Kievan Rus via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and the Cold War to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between the Russian state and its citizens, and set out his view that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from what he calls a slave mentality, and those who embrace so-called European values and try to stand up to oppression. And he addresses the most vital question of all: Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history?
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