Reviving a language the Tsars tried to stamp out is a good thing.
Suppressing another language is not.
And Russian and Surzhyk have deep roots in Ukraine, especially Steppe and Left-Bank Ukraine.
I’m neutral on her cause. I merely thought it was important because it was a political assassination.
She had been living in Los Angeles and became a US citizen in 2021. She was arrested during a family visit last January in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow.
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Russian human rights activists said while living in the US she had made a single transfer of $51.80 on the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 22 February 2022. The FSB is thought to have discovered the transaction on her phone.
… just saw this
… more background info
My Letter From Kyiv to the ‘Anti-Imperialist Idiots’ in the West
The antisemitism animating Putin’s claim to ‘denazify’ Ukraine | Jason Stanley | The Guardian
So glad international law is so strong and is taken so seriously by all of humanity!!! /s
Mirzaev? I thought he was the very model of a modern Major-General.
I might have to reconsider my previous opinion that the only a few of those 
soldiers should return home, and gravely injured.
Having your best military division irretrievably “corrupted” (in the sense of the idea) is probably a better outcome. 