This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batcher with Judy Demstee of the Carnegie Europe.

Judy is the editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe and she asks her colleagues,

quite frequently, hard questions. And the question we're dealing with right now

is not only is the conflict in Ukraine a global war, the debauchos back and forth,

but what next, the second year of war? And one of her correspondents very helpfully

made the case that the damage is being done not only to Ukraine,

not only to comedy in Europe, not only to the question of the U.S.

and the administration fighting over the politics of continuing to build

arms arsenals for Ukraine and for NATO, but also the people in Russia,

especially the young people in Russia. Judy, your colleague, Kolesnikoff,

Andrej Koleskhan, and Nukov speaks of the Russians losing their identity.

I speak to Moscow every other week and talk about it frequently.

The young people there are quite open and acknowledging that many of their friends

have fled the country. For example, to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia,

where many young startups have taken refuge starting up businesses in Yerevan,

good for Armenia, but these are Russian nationals.

Can they go home again, the same in Kazakhstan, at Nursal-Tan,

and recently we had a report, a spectacular report of 22,000 Russian immigrants,

many of them young women who are pregnant in Buenos Aires.

So what we're looking at here is the fragmenting of the Russian future.

Is this something that is also going to damage Europe after the war?

That we have, you've lost a generation of Russian speakers who looked

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