"In a democracy, we have something called rule of law, and that means that the law exists independent of politics... to legitimately find out who's broken the law, who's guilty, who's not guilty."
"In a dictatorship, that's not what the law is for. The law is not to find out what happened. It's... to pursue politics by a different means."
"As courts become more political, people could begin to assume justice is impossible... the public has no agency and no real access to justice."
"I'm on the trial. I'm accused of spreading fake news about Russian army. By the moment when this podcast is released, I might be sentenced in absentia to nine and a half or 10 years in jail."
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