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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Paul Starobin: The Fight for a Better Russia
Description: Russia’s future lies outside of Russia.That’s the verdict offered by Paul Starobin, a veteran analyst of Russia. Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some 1 million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the war, by guilt for their country’s deeds, by personal hatred for the czar-like Putin, and by a vision of a better Russia shorn of autocracy, the exiles have mounted an organized resistance to Putin’s rule.Starobin says that the resistance includes followers of the imprisoned Putin opponent Alexi Navalny, dissident...