No one should be surprised that Moscow is persecuting those who openly call for the demise of the Russian Federation, Sergey Chernyshov says; but at least equally surprising is the failure of opposition leaders and the media “are categorically refusing to talk about the liquidation of the Russian Federation in its current form.”

Such a conversation is “extremely necessary,” the Radio Liberty analyst says; because “if it is shown that a world without Russia in its current form would be better than the world with it, then why should we cling to this political formation?”........

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