Foreign Affairs committee  We are very optimistic. First of all, you couldn't be a pessimist and continue doing what we are doing. One needs a lot of, or a share of, optimism to do all of this. Second, while we already see.... For instance, as we had to formally dissolve our network of regional offices,

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your attention and for your questions.

Foreign Affairs committee  We have prepared an evidence pack on these oligarchs that we suggest to include in our supposed sanction list. There we elaborate a lot on Mr. Abramovich. To make a long story short, he pretends to be a businessman, but he is just a nominal holder of Mr. Putin's assets. He is r

Foreign Affairs committee  It is indeed the case—speaking of power movements—that people are forced out of the country. That's a fact, and that's why Putin is trying to destroy our off-line movement in the country. That's why Putin is forcing us abroad. That's why Alexei Navalny returned to Russia after he

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Oliphant. On sanctions, I think a lot of important things already have been said. I understand how complicated this process is, how many legal complications it has. One little thing to add is that, of course, it's very important that the international

Foreign Affairs committee  If you could kind of push and influence the U.K. informally, it's most essential, because 80% of those assets in question are being stashed in London.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Now on the second matter, once again, this extremist organization status, this will have a lot of effect on our ability to conduct offline activities in Russia. Offline activities will become very dangerous for its participants and we will have to limit them to an abs

Foreign Affairs committee  Alexei was asked many times about the annexation of Crimea. You could easily find many of his public statements on this. To wrap it up very shortly, we recognize that the annexation of Crimea was unlawful. Putin has committed a crime against Russia and Russian national interest

Foreign Affairs committee  What's happening is that Putin is very effectively building a society that was described by George Orwell in 1984. The painting over the graffiti belongs there, and many other things also belong there. He is really acting by the book.

Foreign Affairs committee  We don't have any doubts about what the decision will be. Russia, unfortunately, doesn't have an independent court. On May 17 it will happen, so we are getting ready for it. We are moving more now into the sunlight. The Internet feels still like a relatively free medium. A lot of

Foreign Affairs committee  Putin is trying hard to put the Internet under control, but still it remains a relatively free medium, because the Russian Internet developed itself in the nineties, which was the time of political freedom and economic competition. It thus developed itself in a very competitive w

Foreign Affairs committee  He's number one on our list. We suggested him also to the EU, to the U.K. and to the U.S. government. Putin has many asset holders—nominal holders whose assets are actually Putin's own—but Mr. Abramovich definitely holds the thickest wallet.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's just to scare all the others. That's what he's doing. At every large protest rally, he would arrest maybe 1% of the participants—very random people—but then the other 99% also feel vulnerable. He thus increases the level of terror and distrust in society. We each have to thi

Foreign Affairs committee  This also relates very much to Mr. Harris's important questions, which I didn't have time to reply to, so I'll try to combine them and keep the answer short. Putin was very successful selling the idea of the nineties. The early nineties, after the destruction of communism, were

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, okay.