Aggression against Ukraine had for Russia not only severe foreign policy, but also domestic political consequences; In particular, this led to the fact that the "Gopnik" in the country "like the Girkins and Zakharchenko" "felt themselves the creators of a new policy".

This opinion was expressed in an interview with the "Observer" by the Russian and American historian, art and culture theorist, philosopher, film critic, philologist, professor of New York University Mikhail Yampolsky.

"What was the Donbas for Russia? It was an absolutely insane attempt to reshape the Ukrainian map and change something there, pull Ukraine away from NATO, from Europe. All this, in general, was not justified. But there was a very severe deformation within Russia itself, because this war, especially in the Donbass, started by the Gopnik, all these Girkins, Zakharchenko, and so on, gave a huge weight to this kind of element inside Russia itself, "he said..

"If you look at what happened in the Russian cultural and social landscape, you will see that these semi-criminal elements, which never had much importance and were kept under control, now felt the power - they felt themselves the creators of a new policy.

I believe that today the Kremlin pays them tribute - just as it pays tribute to Kadyrov for the adventure in Chechnya. He begins to pay tribute to these semi-criminal gopnik inside the country, "- said Yampolsky.

Full version of the interview with Mikhail Yampolsky read here.

As the "Observer" wrote, on June 6 it became known that four terrorists of the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk republics were liquidated on the Donbas, who came from Russia to take part in armed bandit formations.

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