Putin - about cultural figures who have turned their backs on the country:

Putin - about cultural figures who have turned their backs on the country: Many people are adults, literate, knowledgeable, talented, of course, they go about their business and, of course, for many, like me, until 2014 it could not have occurred to me that it could be such a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. If you had told me before 2014 that this was possible, I would have said: “Are you crazy?” But I admit that people did not follow, did not understand what was happening. And of course, among other things, every person has the right to have his own position, his own point of view. You need to look, of course, not by what people say, but by what they do. If this activity is connected with causing damage to one’s own country and one’s own people - and such activity also takes place, we see it: fees are transferred somewhere, frankly, to the enemy, and so on - then this is one story. If it’s just an opinion, a point of view, an assessment of the situation, that’s different.