Russia after Putin. Why is the event looking for "good Russians"

Paradoxically, after nine years of war and year after a full -scale invasion, Western societies do not leave attempts to find holes to reconcile Ukrainians and Russians - in the sports arena, theatrical stage and newspaper pages. Like, there are also good among all the Russians, which will not only have to live after the collapse of Putin's empire, but also now, "overcoming a common threat. " The focus learned who in the West was considered "good Russians" and why giving them support.

The so -called "good Russian" has increased in information space lately.

For example, the Oscar Prize in the nomination The best documentary was received by a film-opposition film Alexei Navalny, Echo of Moscow journalist Alexei Venediktov received a Johannn Philipp Palm Award Prize from the German Mass Fundation (executive director From its receipt with it), the Nobel Peace Prize to the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties had to be divided with colleagues from the human rights Russian organization "Memorial" and Belarussian "Vyasna".

In addition, at the level of Ukraine in television broadcasts are frequent guests, albeit former Russian citizens: political events are commented on by lawyer Mark Feigin, journalists Yulia Latinina and Alexander Nezorov, sometimes heard by exader of Putin Andrew Ilarion or former political prisoner. And this list is far from exhaustive. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the declaration of mobilization in the Russian Federation, some of the Russians went outside Russia and settled in Europe.

Among them, for example, writer Dmitry Glukhovsky and blogger Maxim Kats. Both are on the federal wanted list because of the criticism of the Russian authorities. At the same time, both Ukrainians have questions. To the first because he said that "some Russian people kill other Russian people. Just some of them are owners of Ukrainian passports. " For his part, Katz was defined by the statement: "Where Ukraine ends and where Russia begins at all.

This is now a differentiation between Kiev, Kievan Rus and Muscovy as the Heritage of the Horde. " To the other, because he insisted that "there was no connection in Lviv and Kharkiv to Ukraine's independence, and in the east of our country - everywhere" Russian city ". Olena Lunova lived in the Crimea for a long time, and left the peninsula after the occupation began In 2014.

At the mainland of Ukraine, she has joined several monitoring and human rights initiatives, now she is a lawyer for the advocacy of the ZMINA Human Rights Center. In the field of its interests-investigation of cases of deportations . "All my relatives on my mother's line - in Russia. The fact that I am a citizen of Ukraine happened to happen by accident.

I imagine how to be born in another country, to have another citizenship, if my parents we lived in Crimea were more less fundamental about the fact that we had a separate country. Today, it is really difficult for me to communicate with the Russians because this war is too personal. My friends are killed on it, and my children threaten my children every day. But on the other hand, I understand that Russia has people who resisted both in 2014 and in 2022, but there were critical ones, "she says.

In order to solve professional problems, Helen has to work at several levels - to negotiate with people on the ground and to advocate the problem among the leaders of thought, in particular among international partners. And sometimes this cooperation is impossible without communicating with representatives of the Russian Federation. In situations that need help in finding people, in ensuring their basic needs, I do not feel narrative about the senior and younger brothers.

We communicate with Russian volunteers, human rights activists, lawyers. Yes, sometimes it is emotionally difficult, - Lunova continues. - But if we talk about cooperation with international partners, that is, with the involvement of third countries, I feel. There is a desire to reconcile in some way, to explain that the future will still be common because we are neighbors.

These people, organizations, communities have some sentiment, probably to the past, to which we, modern Ukrainians, will never return to the past where there is no war. And we saw this story while awarding the Nobel Prize. And we see when Europeans or Americans try to meet us on joint discussion sites. " As a Ukrainian, I can understand how we can not be together with Russia, - adds Elena Lunova. - My children will know for sure who is a real enemy.

But people who have perceived us as one people who have not been aware of the existence of Ukraine in principle, who were consumers of myths that Ukraine is part of Russia, that we have common roots, one culture, they are definitely not understood. And it seems to me that it is difficult for them to admit that everything that happened is irreversible, for at least a few generations. Yes, we see the experience of Germany after the Second World War.

Probably, if in 1945 the question was whether the Germans will be partners of the UK citizens, the United States or the Soviet Union, no one would believe it. But years have passed, after the passage of certain internal processes in the territory of Germany, now this country is an ally of many, including Ukraine. That is, we understand that there are historical examples where states have been restored. Of course, it is important what internal processes will take place in Russia.

But they need not months or years, but a few generations. "The human rights activist recalls how often politicians have to hear:" Politics are clear. But what policy is when we talk about human rights, these are universal values? Yes it is.

And in sports, culture, journalistic competitions? Journalism is a conversation about freedom of speech? And when they say so, it seems to me that the efforts to translate ours, a very specific armed conflict, into the field of finding places for dialogue between Ukrainians and Russians. And this is a bad idea. Because war is not just about politics. This is an existential war about everything. There are no spheres where there is no war.

And the misunderstanding of the nature of this war, the fundamental war for our existence, where we will bite everything at all levels in Russia, leads to the fact that they try to reconcile us to live on the old - Business As USUAL. And so it will not. And this reality seems to be difficult for me. " This happens over the century cementing philosophical attitude to the order of things in the world, when the Russian Empire was a geopolitical player, and later the Soviet Union.

Therefore, everything that happens in the post -Soviet space was perceived solely through the prism of Moscow, " - says Focus expert of the Institute of Post -Information Society, former Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Dmitry Zolotukhin. He notes that in the global world there was always a limited range of influential players, among which The EU, to some extent, the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation.

It does not need to be taken as a hostility, something terrible, - he explains. "Although it is wrong and bad, but inertia that has the mind and behavior of more Western toppoliticians is present today, and it will not be easy to change. club. In this world, much less place of international law, Western values, human rights. Instead, there is a marginal, violent argument - nuclear weapons. And she, as we know, is in Russia. Attention about the end of this war applies only to events in Moscow.

Because the key to the end of the war remains there, where it was before this war, that is, in Moscow. Such thinking is giving metastases, "he continues. For example, after a full -scale invasion, two key top American editions of New York Times and Washington Post finally opened their correspondent points in Kiev, but both headed journalists who worked for a very long time in Moscow.

Decision -making logic: Even the great American liberals that represent such publications think that one must appoint someone who is in events. And these people find them those who lived in Moscow. Experts say that the problem is that the western Partners do not understand what will happen after the victory of Ukraine and what the defeat of Russia will look like. have. Before they understand it, there will be no defeat, " - says the expert of the Institute of Postinformational Society Zolotukhin.

He draws attention to the fact that the first persons of the state, topper from the beginning of 2023 are trying to form this idea. Intelligence Kirill Budanov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexey Danilov, Presidential Head Andriy Yermak communicate about what Ukrainian victory may be and what will be after it. But it is not about the collapse of Russia, but about changes - transformation, reconstruction.

Because the word "disintegration" carries a negative connotation, it will frighten Western partners. In addition, it is difficult to imagine how the decay can occur. But the paradox is that it is initially expected from Ukraine that it will explain how Russia can change, and and and which result can be expected. Then they will give weapons to finally defeat Russia. The unknown many scares.

On February 10, 2023 in the British magazine Lee Time was published by the text of the Russian oppositionist Elijah Yashin "Do not blame all the Russians for the Putin War", associate of the killed politician Boris Nemtsov, author of materials on Russia's aggression against Ukraine "Putin. War. " Street protest shares pass - about 20,000 opponents of the war were detained for a year, emigration flow increased - according to Yashin, they left 1 to 1.

5 million, silence of millions was justified wars have been repeatedly and in different configurations from Russian Antipotin politicians. . So, in particular, supporters of Alexei Navalny and a group of other oppositionist Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They all try to talk about what Russia will be after Putin, and what the war is not Russia, but the war of the Russian dictator - Vladimir Putin.

However, these Russians do not undertake to explain why hundreds of thousands of "ordinary Russians", representatives of the Russian army, commit a large number of war crimes in Ukraine. "Russian liberals are a small group of people, but they are powerful in the media space in the West, because they are constantly focused on the soffiti rays. For American and European money, all these people receive great opportunities paid by European and American taxpayers.

Donor funds are financed Media and their presence in YouTube, so there are so many, " - says Zolotukhin. That is why Western partners are offered to be friends with Ukrainians. Another probable reason why the event is trying to support Russian politicians and leaders of thoughts who left after the beginning of aggression from the Russian Federation or associates of current political prisoners is the search for those who could become Russian leaders after the war and victory of Ukraine.

The ordering of a kind of "short-leaf" representatives of the new Russian policy, as they will have to negotiate with them. Now, doing it is much easier and more profitable. But, there are two main fears. The first is what will be the policy of liberals who can talk about Crimea as a sandwich and believe in the unity of two peoples. "The basic problem is that those who have gone from the Russians and have ambitions to return, they say that they can be perceived and liked their target group.

And we are not their target group. Their target group is their voters. They want To hear that Russia should be preserved, " - adds Elena Lunova. The second is whether these liberal people will allow power in the Russian Federation after Putin was eliminated.

At the same time, the representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Yusov assumes that after the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the President of Russia by the International Criminal Court, Moscow also began to actively seek the candidacy of his successor.

Moreover, Russian business representatives and pro -government elites are trying to contact "third parties" (such as China) to ensure safety after overthrowing and changing the regime in Russia. And such "casting" of possible candidates has already begun. And among the possible applicants are not already mentioned opposition, but people close to the present authorities.

For example, Dmitry Patrushev is the son of Putin's closest associate, Secretary of the Russian Federation Mykola Patrushev, or today Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In this neither in the West nor in the Russian Federation the elite is not ready for the collapse of Russia. For example, former NATO Deputy Commander in Europe, French General Michelle Yakovleff openly warns that the collapse of the Russian Federation will be bloody than the collapse of the USSR. This must be prepared.