Russia's pacifist politician hopes to bring change
Barred from running in Russia's latest presidential election and branded a "foreign agent", politician Yekaterina Duntsova remains determined to "change" her country. With almost all of President Vladimir Putin's opponents exiled or in jail, the 41-year-old mother of three has refused to back down, founding a political party - Rassvet (Dawn) - to speak out against the conflict in Ukraine.
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00:00The police are on the scene.
00:04The police are on the scene.
00:09It's a silence, probably, yes.
00:11Because it is associated with freedom, with full breast.
00:13It is clear that now I have been limited
00:17in relation to the election legislation,
00:20in relation to the support of our candidates,
00:23I mean those who planned to go to the elections this year.
00:29That is, I can't come and hold a meeting with them,
00:32talk to people in the concept of the election campaign.
00:36Opening this place, we still managed to get there.
00:39That's how it happened.
00:41Good.
00:42Dasha, you tell me how your weekdays go.
00:45My weekdays go as full as possible, yes.
00:48No, it's not scary.
00:50Because when you love your country,
00:53you sincerely love it,
00:55you should not stop
00:57such obstacles that the current leadership of the country gives you
01:01and puts you in such frames.
01:03But even with them, we are still trying to work,
01:06we are still trying to find alternatives,
01:09and I am sure that we will succeed.
01:13We came to record Shulman.
01:24It's just that on the political battlefield,
01:27well, who else?
01:29I went first.
01:31I thought that more candidates would follow me,
01:34but ordinary people followed me,
01:36who felt that they might have an alternative.
01:40And we realized that this alternative,
01:43this feeling of hope, was very important.