Oleg ruvinsky says he has been following the war very closely, and it made him reconsider what i thought about the severity of our conflict in comparison to the scale of what happens in ukran. Do you still think us? Democracy is going through a severe acidential crisis? Well, ye, i do. And but, i mean, this is a good set of issues to be thinking about. I don't think there's any gradual ide of russia into totalitarianism. Russia was part of the soviet union, which was totalitarian from the start,. ok? There is never, a time, that you know that your democracy is working when the ruling political party tries