| Connections made behind the lens |
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Nadia, caged like an animal and what she said to the Judge. We have forgotten Pussy Riot; as Platon says in this interview these words will in time be quoted as exemplary. The war of invasion by Russian Federation of Ukraine is an attrocity but innocents who stand up to the regime in Russia too are sent to prison … to Siberia. He also worked with President Putin; and Stephen Hawking “Wow”
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