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Raw Story: 'We lost sight': Russian dissidents have warning for anti-Trump Americans [View all]
Raw Story - 'We lost sight': Russian dissidents have warning for anti-Trump Americans
Brad Reed
November 25, 2024 8:38AM ET
Miriam Elder, a veteran journalist who reported from Russia for nearly a decade, has interviewed dissident Russian journalists who are delivering warnings to Trump-opposing Americans about growing complacent during his second term.
Writing in the New York Times, Elder describes the political apathy that took over much of Russia's middle class after Vladimir Putin fully returned to the presidency in 2012 and promptly cracked down on dissent.
Rather than continuing to fight against Putin, writes Elder, many of these Russian dissidents turned inward and began focusing on improving their own personal lives with little care for the world around them.
However, she writes that this attempt to stay above the fray came crashing down around them after Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 and sank the entire country into a massive crisis.
Russian journalist Ilia Krasilshchik tells Elder that the complacency on the part of anti-Putin dissidents essentially gave him a free hand to launch a military operation that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians.
"We became insular and lost sight of everyone else’s interests," the journalist explained.
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Brad Reed
November 25, 2024 8:38AM ET
Miriam Elder, a veteran journalist who reported from Russia for nearly a decade, has interviewed dissident Russian journalists who are delivering warnings to Trump-opposing Americans about growing complacent during his second term.
Writing in the New York Times, Elder describes the political apathy that took over much of Russia's middle class after Vladimir Putin fully returned to the presidency in 2012 and promptly cracked down on dissent.
Rather than continuing to fight against Putin, writes Elder, many of these Russian dissidents turned inward and began focusing on improving their own personal lives with little care for the world around them.
However, she writes that this attempt to stay above the fray came crashing down around them after Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 and sank the entire country into a massive crisis.
Russian journalist Ilia Krasilshchik tells Elder that the complacency on the part of anti-Putin dissidents essentially gave him a free hand to launch a military operation that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians.
"We became insular and lost sight of everyone else’s interests," the journalist explained.
/snip
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