Roman Protasevich was crying by the end of his forced interview on Belarusian TV. "I never want to get into politics again. I want to hope that I can correct myself and live an ordinary peaceful life, to have a family, children, stop running away from something."
He is supposed to report to the military recruiting office as soon as he turns 18.
Bohdan Yermokin has said he wants to go to live with his sister in Ukraine. At one point he said he wanted to stay with his Russian family, but he later explained that he had been threatened with being sent to a psychiatric institution if he didn't say this.
According to this article Andropov considered dividing up the USSR into large regions like US states with no regard for ethnicity. There would be no Soviet national republics. Thus there would never be any ethnic conflicts. All ethnic identity would disappear.
The article also expresses outrage that a Ukrainian translation of Pushkin had been published in Kyiv, and that Ukraine wanted to make its own trade deals. Lenin decided only the centre would make trade deals!
Elon Musk wants to enable "citizen journalists" - like people in war zones desperately trying to get videos out. But they must also pay him eight bucks a month.
Before, they could do this for free. Now they must pay to have their tweets seen. An interesting way to enable.
So he wants them to work for free, risk their lives and also pay.