"I repeat again that if Alexei [Navalny] wanted to create a government now, not even in exile, but a virtual one, it would work. He is an important large part of the opposition - structured and controlled from one center, with a proven ability to organize the FBC staff, which after several attempts a decade ago is now not cooperating with anyone else. They can join if they want, but they are not cooperating with anyone. There are a huge number of other forces and very different people, and the way people are meeting here [at the Russian opposition congress in Berlin] is "swan and pike". I quoted the same Ayn Rand yesterday about the need to establish a basic code: as long as Putin is alive, let's not bite each other, and let's do it in a strong argumentative way, not in an aggressive way, if someone doesn't like something."
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"I once paid and raised a lot of money for his [Navalny's] campaign for the 2017 Russian presidential election. I used to pay lawyers for the ECHR. When he was poisoned, I was ready to take him out, but they used another plane. Then, in order not to be looked down upon in Germany, it was necessary for someone to publicly say who paid for it - paid for it and publicly say that the accommodation, the hotel did not fall on the shoulders of the taxpayers of Germany. There was still a great deal of security, and I was very much involved in paying for it. We have a good relationship with my family and we support them in every way we can whenever there is an initiative, which I often don't always like, such as 'smart voting', but I felt I had to support it anyway. Although it is still not clear what the right thing to do would be, that is not a fact. I like him as a person, I have a lot of respect for him as just a block of facts."
"I remember how it completely changed the way we behaved: one day we watched the Sex Pistols film The Great Rock and Roll Swindle under great secrecy, in secret, and realised that it was not only possible but necessary: the way we behaved, the way we communicated with everyone. That is, at the moment of the resolution of the conflict between fathers and children, when our hormones were playing - at that moment their whole system collapsed: together with the whole Soviet Union, it just flew to pieces. It so happened that in the conflict between the fathers and the children, we, the children, by blowing into the dandelion, collapsed the building, because it collapsed itself, while it seemed to us that we had done it. And when it all... On one side of the toilet paper line... Remember when the Moscow kolkhoz came? The kolkhoz workers came - the older people came in the afternoon, they were called "plushies". The southwest was very well supplied, and they just bought everything. And everywhere around us: the Vlasta shops, Vanda, Varna, Budapest, Bucharest, Leipzig - they sold goods from friendly countries. And the Moscow department store on Leninskaya Street. And they used to go directly by buses from the kolkhozes and just buy it all up - food and other things, because there was nothing there anymore. And in the evening their children would come to beat us."
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Yevgeny Chichvarkin was born on September 10, 1974 in Moscow (actually Leningrad), then in the USSR, into a family of intellectuals. In 1991, he entered the Moscow Institute of Management while trading on the Moscow garment markets. In 1996 he graduated from the institute and started postgraduate studies. In 1997, he and his friend Timur Artemyev founded Euroset, which became Russia’s largest retail cellular network, and Evgeny became a millionaire. In 2005, after an investigation by the prosecutor’s office, he was one of the first in Russia to get rid of grey goods clearance and switch to paying taxes. He became involved in political life and headed the Moscow branch of the Right Cause party. In 2008, under pressure, he sold his business and emigrated to the UK. He founded the Hedonizm wine salon and opened the Hide restaurant on Piccadilly. He paid for an election campaign in 2017. Alexei Navalny, his accommodation and security in Germany after he was poisoned with “novichok”. He attends Russian opposition congresses abroad. Raises funds to help Ukraine through charity dinners for wealthy individuals. He divorced his first wife Antonina in London. His common-law wife, Tatyana Fokina, is the managing director of his business and they have two children: a daughter, Alisa, and a son, Lev. Since June 2022, he has been listed by the Russian Ministry of Justice as a “foreign agent”.
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