Source: BBC FAST FORWARD: RUSSIA. Public office holders are not public cheer leaders. They are decision makers, sovereignty defenders (both internal and external), human rights defenders. However, in the process of defending these human rights, they some times find themselves violating these rights too. Most importantly, they are human and possess the ability to be humane too, just like few of you are. And demons like most of you. Problem is, as social scientists-in most cases, academicians, scholars, researchers and students alike are fixated or compelled to put out comprehensive analysis, breakdown, historical antecedents and future consequences of such invasion/incursion/encroachment and perhaps future annexation. It is also important for the public to, whether explicitly or implicitly, with or without appropriate specialists knowledge of what exactly is in the mind of Putin, to react (on or offline). These types of actions from the public compel policy makers to make decisions
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