Very good for you to be willing to look more into it. In that case, there’s more than nepotism. Read about the firing of prosecutor Shokin. There’s a (disgusting) video of then VP Biden bragging on withholding US funds to Ukraine if they fire him (he was the wan I charge of the hidden traffics of Hunter Biden, Nanci Pelosi son, Kerry son, and another one).

There’s a video on YouTube I think, if you’re willing to look for it. Don’t sit on the first major channels… like vox. I think they are feasting into this mess.

Anyway, life in Russia is not as bad as you might think it is. It is not comparable to the one in the wealthiest & most accessible (the US), of course.

Sure we cannot protest as much (if at all), but we have bigger problem. We are not to the point where we need LGBT activists to tell us that rights and protections are needed. It’s not because we are homophobic, we are not. But we have other kinds of problems.

I mean, we will get there. But Russian “democracy” is not mature yet. Having the west poking us on the border with the NATO (an organization which in the papers define Russia as an enemy) it will not make us get there faster. Probably it will just delays, and our current leaders piss off, and it gets where it’s getting today. Erasing our progress.