Protests in Russia have not happened on any great scale against the war, compared to the dissent seen in Belarus a few years ago, and of course to ferocity of the various Ukrainian revolutions. But protest and dissent from within the Russia elite, political and diplomatic establishment or from amongst the Siloviki is even more of a rarity. My guest today is one of the few exceptions.
Boris Bondarev is a former Russian diplomat who worked for the Russian permanent mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2019 until his resignation in May 2022 in protest over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has a unique insight into the Russian diplomatic service and the workings of the Russian delegation at the UN and how it relates back to the centre, in Moscow.
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