this is the concept of a liberal empire, which anatoly chubaits once spoke about. we remember that it is with this concept that the russian liberals, let's say, we went to the elections for quite a long time. there was a competition between two concepts, not a liberal empire, this is what we see, the putin version, but which establishes its power by force, and a liberal empire, which establishes its power by subterfuge, but both of these concepts of empire presuppose non-existence. ukrainians and belarusians and the colonized status of other peoples, ukrainians and belarusians simply have the difference that they are simply russian, relatively speaking, all others simply have to occupy such a place that they occupy in present-day russia, relatively speaking, evenks and tatars, that’s it, the whole difference, mr. portnikov, you know that there are very, very many people on social networks right now, well , they don’t hide their delight, but everyone is also interested in why mr. portnikov agreed at all... to this discussion and how did this idea of holding this d