>>21715628relatively recent turn. he got spooked by riots in 2020, but spooked even more in 2022 when SMO happened and realized that annexation was around the corner.
Pardoning dissidents is a very very recent thing. He's probably ill, and doesn't want his legacy becoming another oblast but has no idea whom to transfer power to.
>>21715629right wing ethnonatiolist bandits, what's there to elaborate on?
People who want to distance from Russia because it's muh eurasian power that has lost all ties to Slavdom. Throw some anti-Communist sentiment propped up by the CIA, and you got yourself a picture of a typical moderate rebel except without gun in a hand cause cause guns are banned here
