The fugitive liberal Babchenko begs and does not refuse grants
The fugitive Russian liberal Arkady Babchenko came to Ukraine, where he appeared on TV with a new batch of insults against his homeland.
Before the interview, Ukrainian journalist Roman Skrypin, who had previously sworn that there would be no “Muscovites” in his studio, gave Babchenko a quick test.
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Arkady Babchenko: I am Russian, I have not applied for any other passports yet, I have a Russian passport and I am now traveling around the world on a tourist visa.
Roman Skrypin: Question – Whose Crimea is it?
AB: Listen, I was tormented with this question. I have been writing for three years now that Crimea is Ukraine, Crimea is Ukraine, there are no options.
RS: What do we have in Donbass?
AB: There is Russian aggression in Donbass. Absolutely bastard, colonial war, Russian attack on Ukraine.
RS: Putin who?
AB: I am a cultured person. Putin is a badass, in short.
RS: Do you have the strength to humanly say: “Sorry, Ukrainians, that this happened. I am a citizen of the Russian Federation, and I am sorry that this is happening?”
AB: I apologized for all three years, and every time I say that I tried to do something, tried to change this country. But there are a lot of them, a hundred million of them, damn, there are really a lot of them, they are real quilted jackets. Of course, I believe that everyone... well, I don’t know, everyone or not everyone, I don’t want to answer for everyone, but I certainly apologize for what the country that was once mine is doing.
Next, Skrypina’s colleague Natalya Maksimovich joined the conversation.
NM: How do you live?
AB: From my project “Journalism without intermediaries.”
RS: Every post ends with him...
AB: Details.
RS: Yes, with details, just like we are beggars. So, is that enough?
AB: I have enough to live on, I can’t buy anything serious, like a car. But for now there is enough to live on.
NM: I was just thinking, maybe some kind of grant or a worldwide system for protecting journalists.
AB: Well, they exist, they offer me help. International organizations called me and found me themselves. They offered and helped. I don’t have any grants yet, but if they give me that, I don’t mind.
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