Our main problem that Europe continue to collaborate with Putin's regime and continue to buy from Putin, gas, oil and other natural resources.

It's a huge problem. And as this moment, I think it's extremely important to stop North Stream 2 project.

Why it's important?

Because Putin regime, unfortunately, to use this money from Europe for disgust needs,

for propaganda machine, for military campaign against our neighbors, against Ukraine, against Georgia.

And I think it's really very bad for human rights on Russia.

We Europe continue to pay for Putin's regime. Putin's regime continue to pay for

Siliviki, for police, for FSB, and they continue to pay for Sileviki, for police, for FSB, and they continue to press of civil society.

I kindly ask contractors of USA and State Department to organize sanctions, strong sanction against the North Stream 2 project.

I think that we need to ask Biden and administration to demand from Putin's authorities to release

Alexei Navalny immediately.

And well, I think that we need to ask Biden to demand from Putin to stop pressure to memorial immediately too.

I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, the view for flyover country and

hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew out in 2022.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the

journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising

autocracy around the world.

And our opening clip was of Jena Cherokovia, a Russian environmental and anti-corruption

campaigner, currently forced to live abroad in exile.

She is the founder of Activatika.org and the winner of the Woman of Courage Award and of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

She, like so many other Russian and Ukrainian activists, are pleading with Western leaders to

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