{"id":1301371,"date":"2025-10-03T20:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/europe-still-believes-in-the-myth-of-good-russians\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:21:17","slug":"europe-still-believes-in-the-myth-of-good-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/europe-still-believes-in-the-myth-of-good-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe still believes in the myth of \u201cgood Russians\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

I will write separately. I consider it a big mistake to form a platform for dialogue between the Assembly and “Russian democratic forces in exile” on the PACE site. And I don’t know how the Ukrainian delegation could have allowed this, missed it, and supported it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian tour guides, who have never apologized to Ukraine for the crimes of their country and people, are promoting deeply dangerous theses about the responsibility of only Putin, and not all Russians, for the war, and about the need to ease the sanctions that ordinary Russians suffer from.<\/p>\n

Now they will get a platform in PACE. On a permanent basis, Navalny, Nemtsov, Kara-Murza and others will promote narratives about the need to ease sanctions that affect “ordinary Russians”, lift asset freezes, fund “Russian liberal media” instead of Radio Liberty, and other nonsense.<\/p>\n

In Europe, there is a real boom in interest in good Russians, and PACE, which institutionalizes them, I am afraid, will only strengthen this legalization.<\/p>\n\t\t