Languages: Français | Deutschexclusive interview. “There was an attempt to get out of that spiral in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but we got sidetracked very quickly and cynicism defeated compassion in politics and we soon returned to the Bolshevik dogma that the end justifies the means,” Ribakov said. He said, however, that there are “only four people in the world who can achieve this: Putin, Zelenskyy, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping”