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It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. Because we're going to realize a system like this, it does not breed loyalty.

The people who rise up within the system,

okay, there's a handful of people who are close to Putin,

but mainly these are rough knuckled, sharp elbowed,

thoroughly pragmatic, ruthless, opportunistic, bastards.

And these are the people who are great to have on your side and will be on your side so long as it's to their advantage but they will have no

sentimental ties to you and if they do decide one day that you're actually more of a problem than an

asset then they're a problem. They're also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

One day, all of the facts about 30 years time will be published.

When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with impunity

and when it is the mere competition,

people talk about intervention.

You don't get freedom peacefully.

Freedom is never safe-guarded people.

Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a people approach. Hello, welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Matthew Gault. And I'm Jason Fields.

After surviving, a poisoning attempt, Russian opposition leader Alexi Nivalny returned to his home country and was arrested.

Now he's been sentenced to serve 32 months in prison.

After Nivalny's arrest at mid-January, people took to the streets of Russia's cities to protest. And we've seen this before, but there is a sense that this time maybe things are different, but isn't really. And here to help us answer that question is

Mark Gollyati. Gollyati is a frequent guest on the show, a Russia expert, and is currently

the director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence.

His most recent books are we need to talk about Putin and a short history of Russia.

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