ekho moskvy, the novaya gazeta and others. and... but this is only the beginning. interesting, rabbi, that you choose to say the world changed on february 24th with the invasion of ukraine. but isn't the truth that for a few days or even weeks after that invasion, you chose to stay quiet? you indicated that you'd received messages, i'd like to know who from, saying that you should not criticise the war in order not to get the jewish community into trouble. so who gave you that message, and why did you ultimately decide you couldn't adhere to that message? as the situation was, was, and when the war was going on, we expected, you know, based on the history, we know we are in russia. russia has, each country has its history. the community leaders expected that eventually there is going to be demand, demand from the authorities to support the war and the community leaders among us, we decided all together not to say one word, not in support and not against it. of course, that is support because you cannot support this war and not against it, because then we would, to

well, let's say that for the mitosis for the rain as well as when novaya gazeta was still published,raine. it was an opportunity to show people who are suffering , that is, for them, the main thing is to show the suffering of people, but they do not want to understand what really happened, why they are suffering and what led to the fact that they are suffering, this is the first such moment, maybe this is an effort, it is really somehow, how do you say to whitewash the russians that the russians are also suffering from the kremlin. let us just pity them, and the second aspect is that it is very strange, but the jellyfish when journalists jellyfish , when they interview our e-citizens who remained in the occupied territories, they hear what they want to hear or ask questions in such a way that they hear exactly the things about which you say that ukraine abandoned us, ukraine betrayed us, ukraine does not hear us and so on and so on. that is, it is also such an inability to understand the situation and look at it more broadly. again, whether they do it consciously or unconsciously, it