My position on the war in Ukraine

I've been to Odessa in 2006. Beautiful and compact city of open and joyful people by the sea. No one cares about your language, color of skin, eye shape. It was easy for me to rent a flat and live a happy life there. In Moscow, if you know, people mostly don't like those with another skin color or language than theirs. Also, it's difficult to rent a flat if you're not a white-skinned man of Slavic appearance that is written right on the texts of the rental advertisements.

One of those “strange” rental advertisements

Also I was in Kyiv in 2013. The same good and kind people as in other places of Ukraine. Remember the time I've spent in Khreshchatyk street. It was winter. It was fabulously beautiful. People were very kind and generous, they helped me with navigation in Russian (I don't speak Ukrainian, unfortunately). Compared to Muscovites who mostly won't help you even if they could, it seemed to me they're very different people even if considered from the same group of Slavs.

If a politician says that there is no other choice except war, maybe it's a reason to retire and give a chance to other politicians? I think, that's why turnover of power is needed in democracy: it's necessary in order to prevent conflicts like this in the future.

Sorry, but it's very hard for a man who knows Ukrainians and met them in real life to accept those agitation and propaganda by the Russian media that claim that they are fascists and Nazis. So, let me disagree with that empty theses taken from nowhere and say:

NO TO WAR!