![]() On April 30, leading members of the Russian opposition issued a statement intended to overcome these perceptions and mark a turning point in opposition activism. ![]() The only way an opposition figure can avoid sharing their fate is to remain abroad-but the activists outside Russia are widely viewed as an ineffective, consumed by internecine squabbles, and unwilling to fully confront the reality of Russia’s crimes against Ukraine (or perhaps even harboring a residue of imperialist Russian attitudes, a suspicion widely shared by Ukrainian patriots). But the Russian liberal opposition generally gets little respect except for a handful of brave individuals who are now behind bars for challenging the regime: Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin. ![]() Ever since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the question of regime change in Russia-and of the role of the Russian opposition in this hypothetical process-has acquired a special urgency. ![]()
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