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"Times New Roman",serif">6) What should the general public in the West do?
"Times New Roman",serif">7) How will Putin's regime change as a result of this
war? Is there a possibility that the regime will not survive?
"Times New Roman",serif">8) What do you think will happen in the coming days
and weeks in Ukraine and Russia?
"Times New Roman",serif">9) How do you see the future of human rights activism in
Russia, what awaits the country and the world?
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Nikitin writes on padding:0cm">Facebook: font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">“It
pains me very much that right now some kind of universal evil is coming from
Russia, from my homeland.” Russian civil society activist Evgenia Chirikova,
who moved to Estonia several years ago, found an hour to talk with Simon
Cosgrove and me. Zhenya says from Tallinn, where she now lives: “We need to
help refugees, we need to do a lot of organisational work.” Zhenya told us that
when asked "Who is to blame for this" her answer is that we tried to
stop Putin with all our might. But we had a very weak civil society that had
been decimated during the preceding decades of totalitarianism. "People of
my generation - we were actually the first to try to organize movements, to
resist unfair elections. But we also saw the cooperation of Western politicians
with Putin, a kind of Schröderization of the West. They were feeding
Putin." In our conversation Zhenya Chirikova recalled speeches she made in
the European Parliament and in the British Parliament where she asked the Western
countries not to buy oil and gas from Putin, not to support this corrupted
regime. "People laughed at me, said it was real politik. It turns out that
we raised this monster together with the West, and now we all have to clean it
up together.