Once you realize that your country has become fascist, you need to do something about it.

You need to protest, you need to try to change it.

But you cannot obey those fascist laws.

You cannot be the obedient citizen of a fascist regime.

Obviously, I didn't want my daughter to go on living in a fascist country and I knew

that I want to take her out.

Mikhail has spent the last 16 months reporting from Berlin and that's where he was when

his friends inside Russia began to text about tanks on the ground.

The rebellion itself was quite a surprise because we did not expect him to be that emotional

and unprepared.

The him Mikhail is referring to is Jifgeny Prugozion.

Last fall was the first time when I started hearing from my sources that the puppet has become

alive.

That the person who has always been considered to be not even Putin's right-hand man, but

Putin's chef, Putin's servant, somebody who is very dependent on his master unexpectedly,

he has become an independent political figure.

Prugozion is, or at least he was, the leader of the Wagner Group, a mercenary army of at

least 25,000 people fighting on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As a paramilitary force, Wagner took care of Putin's dirty work abroad.

Its special operations attracted international attention and the group became a target

for US sanctions.

For a long time, Prugozion denied any involvement with the group, but this year he changed his

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