NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Nina Krushcheva, professor of international affairs at the New School, about the current geopolitical climate in Russia. We wanted to hear more on how people inside Russia are responding to Ukraine's attacks, so we've called Nina Khrushcheva. She's a professor of international affairs at The New School in New York, and she's a great-granddaughter of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
She joins me now from Moscow. PFEIFFER: I understand you've been in Moscow for two months and had last been there in March. How would you say the mood has shifted between your two visits?
KHRUSHCHEVA: It is, and it's shifted a little bit. Thank you for this question. I think there's more understanding, kind of resignation that the war is going to go forever.
And you just mentioned - your correspondent just mentioned the Yabloko Party - the Apple Party - that suddenly got a lot of support, although before, it seemed like it was a nothing party kind of living off the Soviet days because it began early in the Soviet - late Soviet era. So the mood is resignation. The mood is annoyance with the war.
But also, as your correspondent mentioned, there is a lot of - repressions are increasing, and therefore, people are more fearful of how much they can really speak freely about their own needs and wants. And obviously their gas lines and their Wildberries being attacked, so economy is not doing great. So there's a lot of, as I said, resignation to what's to come.
PFEIFFER: I think many Americans wonder - I wonder - what kind of access to news, facts, information Russians have. You know, what propaganda they're hearing, what's a news blackout. How informed do you think Russians are about what's really happening?
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