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Overthrowing Putin has never seemed so possible to them. Prigozhin's crazy escapade was followed very closely by soldiers of Russia's Freedom Legion, Russian dissidents who fight in the ranks of the Ukrainian army and carry out raids on Russian territory... "But only on leave from the Ukrainian army," said Alexei Baranovsky, spokesman for the political center and partisan networks of the legion. Baranovsky explains: "We saw with the Prigozhin 'raid' that Moscow is not so far from Ukraine... The army and police did nothing. No one blocked the way." He prophesied: "The generals of the army (Russian, editor's note) will wait to see who wins. If the rebels win, they will claim to have always been opposed to Putin, and if not, they will say they have always been Russian patriots.
»While living in Russia, Alexey Baranovsky was a lawyer and defended political opponents of the regime. It seems to places of extremism often...
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