From TrueRussia.org, founded by Baryshnikov, prominent Russian writer Boris Akunin, and economist Sergey Guriev (all expats):
The "Russian Federation," which has been taken over by a dictator, has unleashed a criminal war.
This is a blow to all of us who belong to the Russian culture and who speak Russian. The very word "Russian" has become, in the world's eyes, toxic.
But a thousand times worse is what is happening to our close kin, the Ukrainian people. Before our eyes a true humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding. Many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have lost everything: their homes, their livelihoods, their property.
