"UKRAINE WILL COLLAPSE NO MATTER WHAT" - ALEXANDER BORODAY

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj55H63mv54p3d4zhE8TchGyIXMLAbBlRX_dHBY5kx99XdAoFVtqONs95gJaWnUNUOvG2OrZFZQXJiJLmf_ioRbe37aZ30wyaVz5IVN9Q68u4cKHJ4XxtJXPOSweUEO44F4Cc3jlJ8xr0k/s1600/00000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj55H63mv54p3d4zhE8TchGyIXMLAbBlRX_dHBY5kx99XdAoFVtqONs95gJaWnUNUOvG2OrZFZQXJiJLmf_ioRbe37aZ30wyaVz5IVN9Q68u4cKHJ4XxtJXPOSweUEO44F4Cc3jlJ8xr0k/s640/00000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">A philosopher by heritage and soldier of the Empire. Political strategist and top-manager who ascertains geopolitical processes and turns out to be where he is needed. Crimea, Donbass, Russian Spring. Assassinations, armed clashes, and the position of leader of Novorossiya in the most critical period, when punitive battalions and part of the UAF attempted to break through defenses and bring the People’s Republics to their knees. He never had any free time. Here with us now is Alexander Boroday in an interview with PolitNavigator’s Valentin Filippov conducted on the move as well as over the phone. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Valentin Filippov: Greetings, Alexander.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Alexander Boroday: Good day.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Long ago, in a past life in February and March, 2014, did you know that everything would end with Crimea?</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: What does “everything end with Crimea” mean? In my opinion, not everything is limited to Crimea...If you mean the phenomenon which is now called the Russian Spring, then everything wasn’t limited to Crimea. This is already a fact. An obvious one. And I think that it is still not limited. Because this is a wider-scale phenomenon than just something related to the fact that Crimea returned to Russia. And this was historically and legally predestined, right? But the phenomenon is much more widespread. I believe that the Russian Spring is part of the process of the revival of the Russian people, of the constituent peoples of our Russian state.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: I fully agree with you, but we live on Earth here and now. And people understand things in simple terms. Everyone waited for the border columns to be dragged, just as people came out at night, dug up the signs, and pulled them forward. And everyone waited for the whole affair to go to Transnistria after Odessa. But it didn’t happen.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: center;"> <a class="external" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWRjqYl-eD4XhR68tDNS6FxO349bgT5eR-sXHcTKBo5lV_cxrcc_kUG7JzPBT23nuSwV1oN4DYsj55A381C5EEaTBPEbCqv26tD7K5mBv-n6_meR_T5_NN9OAzTLxP_fntTeHb-fofFw/s1600/1395042395_dsc_0608-e1447146254718.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Open in new window"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWRjqYl-eD4XhR68tDNS6FxO349bgT5eR-sXHcTKBo5lV_cxrcc_kUG7JzPBT23nuSwV1oN4DYsj55A381C5EEaTBPEbCqv26tD7K5mBv-n6_meR_T5_NN9OAzTLxP_fntTeHb-fofFw/s640/1395042395_dsc_0608-e1447146254718.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Wait. What does “it didn’t happen” mean? It hasn’t happened yet! Let’s say that I believe that historical processes are an irrevocable thing. There is a certain logic to historical development. And the resurgent Russian state which, frankly speaking, really found itself in a very difficult position after losing in Third World War and the Cold War, is now beginning to increase its power.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Even if this process will be interrupted in some kind of harsh, violent way, which, in my opinion, is unlikely, then the natural historical process will lead to the displacement of borders in one way or another. Legally, peacefully, or someway else. It’s not important by which way. It will lead, in the end, to the moving of the columns.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Globally, that’ s all correct, but...</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: This is a global process...which doesn’t just last days or months. It can happen at some point in an explosive, sharp way. Then this process can be inhibited and then be dragged on for years. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Do you remember how the Russian state gathered itself together in the early middle ages? Sometimes, it gathered territories really quickly. At other times, this happened much slower. At one point, this process was rolled back a bit. Nevertheless, this movement is unstoppable. There is an overall trajectory.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Everything is strategically possible. We always knew this. It’s just that, in 2014, we all hoped that this will happen in our lifetime... and we can still still get there. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Well, I hope that it will happen in our lifetime.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: I also am very hopeful. But, here we have the events in Crimea and the Russian Spring. The Russian Spring called for a mobilization of all those who could, all those who dreamed, all those who wanted...There is such a Russian army proverb: “A soldier without work is a potential criminal.”</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Well, yes! OF course! Everyone knows that.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: What are people to do? Here we are today. People who rose up now don’t know where to go...</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: They rose up and don’t know where to go? Do you mean the volunteers? Not just anyone, but the volunteers first and foremost?</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Above all, yes. First and foremost.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: There is a part of the volunteers who believe that they have done everything that is possible. And they are returning to civilian life and civilian occupations. But, nevertheless, they are saving their readiness in the event of a necessity of getting back in line again. There is a part of the volunteers who would like to continue the struggle.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Well, what is to be done?</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">There are different forms and methods of struggle. There are different directions to a struggle. And, moreover, from time to time people need to rest.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">The state and society are a living organism. A person is a living organism. Everyone needs some respite.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Undoubtedly. But what if they decided to take a break and the authorities say to them “No, listen, you don’t have the right to rest here. Go to your Kherson or to Kharkov. There you can rest quietly to yourself. Who do you think you are? How did you get here and on what grounds? You aren’t even from Donetsk!”</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Well, in my opinion...you have in mind the process of returning those volunteers who came from other regions of Ukraine. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: But not even returning. Maybe they wouldn’t like to return.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: I understand that these people don’t want to return. They have every right not to do this. In my opinion, absolutely.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">And, of course, I believe that the state here should support them. Because returning to a state which is ideologically Nazi and which would perceive them as criminals - they, of course, can’t return there. And here, the Russian state needs to take a step forward. It’s just that the Russian state, like any bureaucratic machine, responds to impulses quite slowly. But the task of social organizations, including the Volunteers’ Union of Donbass, is to make the state respond faster, more precisely, and more correctly. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">In other words, those volunteers who left those territories which are now under the occupational government, the puppet government, the Kiev government - these people should have the right to Russian citizenship and to all related state support. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Well, you believe that it is simply a bureaucratic error. But look. A year ago, it was stated: “Come on, citizens of Ukraine, come to us, don’t fight, don’t be mobilized, don’t live in a fascist state.” And now time has passed and they say: “Well, it’s all over, you can go.” What do they have in mind? Is this an error? Or does the Russian state believe that the Ukrainian question is resolved, that everything has been agreed to, and that Ukraine has been transformed?</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: You understand that I can’t answer for the Russian leadership.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: I understand.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: I am not an official. I am not a public servant. I just can’t comment on the point of view of the Russian State.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">But, in my opinion, the situation is obvious to any reasonable person that, despite the fact that the Minsk Agreements have somewhat dampened the intensity of hostilities in Donbass, the Ukrainian state has not been reformatted. It remains (a) Nazi and (b) a puppet. It is a state directly controlled by the West. Above all, by the United States of America. Not even the West as a whole, because the West is overall a loose concept that includes Europe. Ukraine, as a matter of fact, is already a failed state that is undergoing disintegration, and that part of Ukraine which remains is under the Kiev government, and this is a puppet government which is really under the direct control of the United States. In fact, Russian officials are speaking about this, and I am not completely alone in this regard. I watched Lavrov’s commentary on this issue. It is, of course, the official position of the Russian authorities...</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Alexander, although you are a Muscovite and a citizen of the Russian Federation, my region is no foreign land to you. Odessa, Transnistria...</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: As a participant in the Transnistrian War, of course!</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Well, yes!</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: That was my youth! Of course! To put it mildly, I am not indifferent to Transnistria.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">I was in Odessa, honestly speaking, only one time. Right after the war, I went to Odessa to see the city. That was in August, 1992.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: But, you know, as regards Odessites, in 2014 they really hoped that you would come “see the city” for a second time.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: I also hoped so.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: But you went to “see” Donetsk.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Well, as you understand, I wanted to “see” Odessa, but, being in Donetsk, it was always necessary to balance desires with reality. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: We all understand that any Russian Spring can be successful in a case in which we observe a confusion of the regional elites. In your knowledge, was any work with the elites engaged in in Odessa?</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Are you talking about Odessa? It’s very difficult to answer the question about the city in particular.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: I’m talking about the region. Because, it appears to me that it would have been logical, in a military sense, to go for Odessa after Crimea, through Kherson...and then to Transnistria. Then, first of all, there would be no problem with the blockade of Transnistria, and secondly, Ukraine would be cut off from the sea today.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: We all think of ourselves as great strategists. Shota Rustaveli had a wonderful phrase. It goes like “The knight in the panther’s skin”, no? “Everyone fancies himself a strategist in seeing the fight from the side.”</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">So, such is the story. This is a transparent hint.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">....in my opinion, you’re asking why the rest of Ukraine..</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Hasn’t collapsed!</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: It hasn’t collapsed.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">....</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Correct! Because, according to my logic, she was supposed to wither away in the spring of 2014 without any of the help of Alexander Boroday, for example.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: you know, in my opinion, here the tremendous organizational and financial resources of the west, which didn’t allow Ukraine to just fall apart, played a role. This is why contemporary Ukraine is a puppet state. It is a state governed as a puppet state. A territory governed by the West, by the United States of America. That is, resources were thrown in. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">I am not saying that the United States staged the Maidan. Now everyone understands that this is not entirely so. Another thing is that the situation which arose due to the Maidan was used by Western intelligence services, including the US secret services, to maximize their influence on the territory of Ukraine. And I must say that they have achieved a lot. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Interesting.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: They “glued together,” if  you will, a crumbling Ukraine.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Sorry, but who staged the Maidan then?</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Im my opinion, the Maidan was staged, excuse me, above all by the Ukrainian oligarchs. And, naturally, it accumulated the discontent of the people. It was the presumptuous, absolutely jerk clan of Yanukovich, in my opinion, which broke the internal balance of the Ukrainian oligarchical elite simply thanks to their own greed and stupidity.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Thus it was, yes.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: The balance was broken, after which the Ukrainian elite, using the discontent of the people, the absolutely sincere, honest discontent of the people, overthrew the Yanukovich regime.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: ...But the point is that, first of all, the Maidan was being cooked up since 2011, the year when Yanukovich came to power. That’s the first point. And the second, well, who would go to the Maidan without any guarantee that the results of the Maidan will be recognized worldwide? It is complete idiocy, a year and a half before presidential elections, to overthrow the president, and here what you are saying about “complete discontent of the population" fits in.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: The discontent of the population was colossal. Generally speaking, I can perfectly imagine how it was for the residents of Ukraine to be tired of 23 years of constant oligarchical shuffles.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Yes.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: The constant struggle of clans.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: But for us, Yanukovich, no matter what, was “pro-Russian”, so half..</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Who is “us?”</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: For the South-East, Yanukovich was still the “lesser evil.” The population didn’t love him, didn’t want to support him, but didn’t want to interfere...</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: They didn’t love him, they despised him. This is objective. In the South-East of Ukraine and  in other parts of Ukraine he was hated. </span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">The difference, by and large, is unimportant.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">As regards the “pro-Russian” stance of Yanukovich, excuse me,  but for me, a person who never lived in Ukraine but who visited there regularly for a number of different reasons, it was obvious that Yanukovich didn’t have any kind of pro-Russian sentiment.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Understood.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: And I think that this was obvious not only to me. I am not trying to make myself seem to be the only smart one who had an epiphany and realized this.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Undoubtedly. But the pro-Russian population of Ukraine, as they called us, thought that Putin gave us Yanukovich, and they believed that Putin needed to sort things out with Yanukovich.</span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Let them send somebody else. But there wasn’t anybody else.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: center;"> <a class="external" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1gZYxVPeTEmZtoGPvdsver8c1MWsTCtGITvpmATuwGOnKw15qg1MphA41rWNtIbXaIYCNffZ-CsBVSOcNpZslNxzdpms4C59Oh_Y-Rjmnrss6KKxdp5NJFkXIAquFZgEFkFz7GxCou4/s1600/56113a4510e52_1443969605.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Open in new window"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1gZYxVPeTEmZtoGPvdsver8c1MWsTCtGITvpmATuwGOnKw15qg1MphA41rWNtIbXaIYCNffZ-CsBVSOcNpZslNxzdpms4C59Oh_Y-Rjmnrss6KKxdp5NJFkXIAquFZgEFkFz7GxCou4/s640/56113a4510e52_1443969605.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: arial, Helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: justify;"> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Alright, let’s talk about your Volunteers’ Union of Donbass. What is it and why does it exist?</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: I’ve already spoken many times about it, but I’ll repeat myself even though many of our documents are posted on our website.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">The Volunteers’ Union of Donbass is as I would like to say a “veterans’ organization,” but the situation doesn’t allow such to be said because a “veterans’ organization” is an organization for those people who have finally fulfilled their mission.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">This is union of volunteers, a union of those who are ready to fight for Russia, for the Russian World. There is such a modern concept. It is pretty vague, but, nevertheless, it has the right to exist. And it has all the claims! </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">So this union is for those people who fought in Donbass, or somehow participated - whoever fought, whoever helped in a humanitarian way, whoever participated as a specialist, or as a medic for example.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">This is a union of those people who contributed, and who have already or are now returning from the war, or who are getting ready to return from the war. And, therefore, they need to settle into domestic, Russian life. This union is primarily for citizens of the Russian Federation. </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a class="external" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGF2zk17_sJ3wGIY7x8wST3fQYrBkjTfFl6rI08FWB-OCW6kbMKA1HBA1zgjr3PLDKnNPevAmdswGyOYH0rrx_8Fqt3DBm3zqi_-5jI3mfKvPLApYpMMvntpvTQwD7fS5CQCWyA4WiaLY/s1600/710x398_1440593676-e1447146548546.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Open in new window"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGF2zk17_sJ3wGIY7x8wST3fQYrBkjTfFl6rI08FWB-OCW6kbMKA1HBA1zgjr3PLDKnNPevAmdswGyOYH0rrx_8Fqt3DBm3zqi_-5jI3mfKvPLApYpMMvntpvTQwD7fS5CQCWyA4WiaLY/s640/710x398_1440593676-e1447146548546.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Accordingly, volunteers, in a non-state sense, we’ll say, are not public servants. A volunteer’s activity, in some cases - sorry for the pathos - and his sacrificial heroism was performed not at the behest of the state, and therefore he is deprived of any kind of state aid. Therefore, volunteers should help each other. We just have to help ourselves. We are engaged in precisely this help. In particular, we provide medical aid to the wounded, and in particular we try to employ those who lost their jobs. We are solving all sorts of social problems. And, in fact, there are a lot of them. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: center;"> <a class="external" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkjINsfstmsyCqxOeBg3U1vFE6-vC1GTwjjXjYB8ZU-jtrBmevzUQw-D35K8dhhXZs0uIr6lAFpXFBTnYWRrQS_ecJn9YzESIZloYXHwML4ETn9JZlX6sNVECDiNa-OVNs5CexDMQwiQ/s1600/355768104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Open in new window"><img border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkjINsfstmsyCqxOeBg3U1vFE6-vC1GTwjjXjYB8ZU-jtrBmevzUQw-D35K8dhhXZs0uIr6lAFpXFBTnYWRrQS_ecJn9YzESIZloYXHwML4ETn9JZlX6sNVECDiNa-OVNs5CexDMQwiQ/s640/355768104.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: That is, the organization is exclusively social.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: No one has gotten rid of post-war syndrome. This is, above all, a social, humanitarian organization.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Well, many of you have been reassured. But many of you have been disappointed, as you said yourself that the mission has not been accomplished.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Yes. The mission is not accomplished. Of course. The Volunteers’ Union is, to some extent, a mobilizing resource for when volunteers will be needed again. But now, in the current situation, volunteers in Donbass are a bit of a foreign element. Although the war is not happening, the volunteers came to fight en masse.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: center;"> <a class="external" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuCLyxCL9qFoVxhOhByT4R0GPkMG9HE061vSeoBX-Koq-Za_Yy4Hhzutx6S2LmBNkHcqt4Jx2NCgtVjleQy5hBwt8fy_JibCwXDpZH9LgsePwfZAX94Z-JfXLIq7PZk6VThyphenhyphenQEZRjJseM/s1600/borodaj-e1447146385902.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Open in new window"><img border="0" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuCLyxCL9qFoVxhOhByT4R0GPkMG9HE061vSeoBX-Koq-Za_Yy4Hhzutx6S2LmBNkHcqt4Jx2NCgtVjleQy5hBwt8fy_JibCwXDpZH9LgsePwfZAX94Z-JfXLIq7PZk6VThyphenhyphenQEZRjJseM/s640/borodaj-e1447146385902.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">....</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Sorry, but this rings a bell. You said yourself that volunteers need to be given Russian citizenship.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Yes.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: But they are volunteers...</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: No, wait. There are volunteers and there are militiamen. Let’s break down these two terms. Volunteers are those who came. The others...the militiamen  are those who stood up in our ranks from among the local residents. They are residents of Donbass. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: But the concept of a volunteer is not only limited to Russia. They even came from Spain.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: There are volunteers from different countries. There are volunteers from the regions of Ukraine occupied by the Kiev junta. And these are also volunteers. And, of course, they need to be integrated into our society. And helping them is our task. And the first help for them, the most important, is help which only the state can provide, namely, helping them become citizens of the Russian Federation to give the opportunity to live and work here peacefully. This is the most important aspect of our work.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Well, as you know, a social organization is capable of certain kinds of legal actions and lobbying. And we, of course, have lobbied, and we will lobby on behalf of those citizens and persons who still have that horrific little blue passport in their hands....</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">In my opinion, with that state no longer existing in reality, they could obtain a normal, red passport with the two-headed eagle, a passport of the Russian Federation.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: This is what I wanted to clarify.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Of course, this is part of our tasks. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">....</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF:... Tell me, what will happen next with this land which formerly housed the state of Ukraine?</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Is there hope?</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Yes, I believe that we have hope. And we have confidence. I hope that Russia will, as a state, strengthen itself. And, accordingly, include into its orbit more and more of the land on which Russian people, by mentality and blood, live to this day.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a class="external" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBhP9ASPVtpXqXEaK6gN4Xcq1goXRELzbohs4BlhutJ6_03HhZ9bTu7J-C5jGOPjZTHAkx5Z2HYVZYn9-5BSwW8n8gieuK3A7EriGsW6hbgx_GArMDyHHuEoe85g2Hdd6NIWDnKXDzOw/s1600/139694040614b61897cb5443d712e6acdc007ce60bc-e1447146702121.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="Open in new window"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBhP9ASPVtpXqXEaK6gN4Xcq1goXRELzbohs4BlhutJ6_03HhZ9bTu7J-C5jGOPjZTHAkx5Z2HYVZYn9-5BSwW8n8gieuK3A7EriGsW6hbgx_GArMDyHHuEoe85g2Hdd6NIWDnKXDzOw/s640/139694040614b61897cb5443d712e6acdc007ce60bc-e1447146702121.jpeg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Well, of course, Ukrainie is a considerable part of this territory included in that orbit. For this reason, but not only for this reason, I believe this. And it is my hope and my prediction.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">And there is another fact. Ukraine, as a state, today doesn’t exist. There is a territory which is held together thanks to the organizational efforts of the West - organizational, military, and financial efforts. All sorts of things. It doesn’t even matter. These efforts are not capable of undoing the historical process. At any moment, Ukraine will fall apart no matter what. No matter what, the processes of collapse is continuing. At some point, they will burst into activity. At some point, they fade away from the public view and the public opinion. But they are in fact ongoing. They are continuing secretly and quietly, but they are ongoing.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">At any moment, we will be faced with the situation of the disintegration of Ukraine into its component parts. That is, what is left of Ukraine into its component parts. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: What does that mean? When America no longer wants to give away money? I’m not saying that their money is ending.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: Well, now, it’s not going to end...But if America no longer wishes to constantly sponsor the whole affair, then it will end at that moment.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">But if this desire does not disappear, then the processes of disintegration of so-called Ukrainian statehood will continue. And money can not stop these processes. They can only slow them down. We see how these processes braked thanks to American money and other resources. This does not mean that the process is cancelled, has withdrawn, or disappeared. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">They are simply continuing, simply slower than if there wasn’t this money.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: And, unfortunately, people are perishing. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: People will continue to perish. Slavs are perishing on both sides of the confrontation. And this does not improve the climate for the remainder of Kiev’s Ukraine.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">VF: Well, alright. We will hope that everything will happen in our lifetime. We shall find out. Thank you. Goodbye.</span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">AB: No problem. Goodbye. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <br /></div> <div class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Original Article from FortRuss Blog</i></span></span></div> </div>

"UKRAINE WILL COLLAPSE NO MATTER WHAT" - ALEXANDER BORODAY

A philosopher by heritage and soldier of the Empire. Political strategist and top-manager who ascertains geopolitical processes and tur...

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