A recent poll found that 49 percent of people would back withdrawing without achieving the Kremlin's military objectives.

Vladimir Putin cannot win the war in Ukraine because his defeat is the only chance to build a new, democratic Russia. The Russian opposition and the West cannot waste this opportunity again as they did in the '90s,

Western governments and Russia's exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia's democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin eventually leaves office, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician,

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We need to learn from those past mistakes, from those past lessons, to make sure we do not repeat these failures the next time a window of opportunity for change in Russia opens, - says Russian oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza,