Ed Luce: belief

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…IPad question. “Russia is commonly considered the primary antagonist of liberalism. What are the chances liberalism itself takes hold in Russia in the next 20 years?” Perhaps pretty good. If you look anywhere around the world, cities tend to vote for the internationalist option, and Putin was so complacent ‑‑ rightly so ‑‑ about his last presidential campaign in 2012. He allowed more than half of Moscow to vote against him, and of course, Istanbul, Erdogan, strongly rejected Erdogan’s recent referendum on strengthening his powers. Alexei Navalny, the leader, currently, of opposition to Putin, is doing something that Corbyn managed to achieve last Thursday. He’s getting young people out, being quite bold, and protesting on quite some scale across Russia. You ought to draw hope from that kind of courage from millennials. We’re used to thinking of millennials as slightly different. I wouldn’t rule out Russia turning from abeying a Western democracy to being something quite hopeful. I think that’s definitely a positive thing that’s potentially going on there. Next question.…

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