Thank you to Echo of Moscow for coming to me at a time when I can’t come to Echo of Moscow.
Yesterday’s interview with Alexei Venediktov and Olesya Ryabtseva has already caused quite a stir. And judging by the looks of it, the overwhelming majority of those making noise about it, of course, haven’t actually read the interview. But that’s nothing unusual — it’s always like that.
The full interview has now been published on the website in two parts:
Part One: Protests, Khodorkovsky, Yulia Navalnaya, Crimea, and a lot about Ukraine.
Part Two, which Echo titled “Russkiy Mir” (“Russian World”): about the Russian March (an annual nationalist rally), chauvinism, Ukraine again, the interests of Russians, and charity.
Read it and form your opinion based on the original source, not on retellings.