English translation

[05:48 - 06:47] The Importance of Peace and Missed Opportunities for Change

It seemed to me that if Yuri were alive, Khodorkovsky would not have been imprisoned, there would have been a different Duma, and well, because Yuri is an important figure in history. I am not exaggerating. And that's why I think that it was a murder of influence in such a horrific way, in order to start preparing this silence. This breaking of silence, then again, when Medvedev came, it seemed like a thaw, that something was changing, the mechanism was somehow changing. Then it turned out that no, and everything went further and further. Yuri said that the most important thing is peace. This toast of his from some year, when he stands with a glass of champagne on television. Television loved him, journalists loved him, TV people. He had many friends among them. And when he very sadly holds a glass of champagne in his hands and says that we raise this glass, and here comes war, this war is near. And the most important thing that can be is peace, it is the absence of war. This absence of war is the most important thing that can be. I accidentally, I already forgot, I accidentally came across it somehow, YouTube brought up recommendations, and there was this New Year's snippet. And it's amazing how he talks about it. It's like for all times. Especially in the situation that, that is now, from which, uh, yes, there is such a phrase, any war eventually ends.