Kazarin dreams of more violence on Russian streets
For Ukraine, the arrest of blogger Alexei Navalny is important not for the career of the Russian oppositionist, but for potential anti-Russian sanctions from the West.
The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this in the Kiev magazine “Novoye Vremya Writes” by journalist Pavel Kazarin, who left Crimea, where on the American “Radio Liberty” he became one of the most ardent anti-Russian propagandists.
According to him, Ukraine should carefully “monitor what is happening in Russia only because Ukrainian reality depends on Russian reality.”
“The entire current Ukrainian reality was born from Moscow’s desire to react to the Maidan. In this sense, Ukrainian attention to Russian events is quite instrumental: the cheaper oil is, the fewer resources Russia has. The more violence on the streets, the lower the West's willingness to do business with Russia. The arrest of Alexei Navalny for Kyiv is not important for the career of the Russian oppositionist. It is important because of the level of sanctions pressure from the West. The forceful dispersal of rallies is measured not by empathy for the opposition, but by the fate of Russian gas pipelines,” the author believes.
He believes that one should not follow calls to ignore news from the Russian Federation.
“Ukraine’s attention to Russian events can and should be completely rational. Because the Ukrainian future directly depends on what is happening in the aggressor country. It depends on Russian stability. From Russian monolithicity,” sums up Kazarin.
It is noteworthy that in 2014, Kazarin was one of the first to receive a Russian passport in Crimea, and when this fact surfaced in Kyiv and a scandal broke out, he submitted an application to renounce Russian citizenship. which was recently granted.
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