Leonid Volkov called the European Union’s decision to lift sanctions on Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov «shameful» and creating a «terrible precedent». He reminded that in 2022 he himself signed a letter to the European Commission asking for sanctions to be lifted on Fridman and other top managers of Alfa Group if a number of conditions were met.

#AlisherUsmanov #EU #LeonidVolkov #MikhailFridman #sanctions #FBK #JuliaNavalnaya

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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov, at a meeting with supporters in St. Petersburg, criticized the voting strategy for the State Duma elections proposed by Yulia Navalnaya and Maxim Katz. He called the appeal to vote for any party except United Russia and to look for the strongest candidate in the districts «human meanness».

#BorisRybakov #elections #MaximKatz #JuliaNavalnaya #Apple

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«Most.Media,» in collaboration with the magazine «Region.Expert,» launches a regular weekly review of events occurring in the fields of regional politics, economy, and culture. For many Russian media, as well as for free Russian-language publications outside Russia, this topic often still seems secondary and provincial. But such a snobbish-centralist approach has repeatedly failed — throughout various historical changes, Russia’s geographical borders have shifted, and many former provinces of the empire became independent countries. If we aim to look to the future, some promising trends need to be tracked and analyzed today.

#future #state #imperialism #society #opposition #aftertheUSSR #Regions #Russia #JuliaNavalnaya

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«There is no crime I wouldn’t commit to realize myself,» Valery Gergiev liked to repeat the words of his idol, Herbert von Karajan. But the renowned German conductor, who became the face of the Third Reich for self-realization, never stooped to shoddy work. That can no longer be said about Gergiev.

#zpatriotism #BolshoiTheatre #ValeryGergiev #WarinUkraine #HerbertvonKarajan #dictatorship #Canada #classicalmusic #Latvia #MariinskyTheatre #Netherlands #propaganda #protests #Putin #SergeyNovikov #SergeiProkofiev #Ukraine #JuliaNavalnaya

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