“You once said: ‘Why do we need a world if there is no Russia in it?’ — Why do we need a state where there is no opportunity to get an education?”

Filmmaker Sokurov’s on-camera confrontation with Putin over wartime repression is worth a watch.. pic.twitter.com/6ZA2I9wrpg

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) December 12, 2025