When Putin’s trusted representatives have moments of candor, every such moment is pure gold.

The BBC interviewed those very representatives about the “Serebrennikov case”.

My personal favorite, the great Russian patriot and Putin fan who once swore he would defend the United States with a gun in his hands, musician Igor Butman, put it perfectly.

He came right out and said exactly what every single one of those “trusted representatives” feels:

Simply magnificent.

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