Arkady Ostrovsky
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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Yes, as you say, I spent about 60 hours over the past three months.
And it started with one meeting in Istanbul.
It was not supposed to be part of an interview.
And he said something to me which made me sit up.
He said, for the first time in my life, I feel Russia is my country.
I've come back.
To him, it's now the only country he's going to have.
This is the guy, as Ed said, who's lived this global life.
I don't think it's just sanctions.
I think the whole kind of order of his life has fallen apart.
His factories are getting attacked by Ukrainian drones.
He's also facing attacks, not just from Western sanctions, but from some rapacious Russian security services who want to take parts of it.
And the fact that this guy is starting to speak is actually the most striking part of it, not just what he is saying.
Yeah, I think there is a sense that the war has come home.
For somebody like Melnichenko, whose factories do get hit, I think they all feel that it cannot carry on as it is.
Because whatever Putin is doing is not working.
So he sees two scenarios.
One is Putin increases the cost of it.
which means escalation, repression, all that stuff, the security services locking down, or he scales back and makes the country more inclusive to avoid this cliff.
But the sense of it's become everybody's problem, and therefore, if it's everybody's problem, and these are the guys with resources...
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