HRF board member Yulia Navalnaya campaigning to get Russians allowed in the EU on tourist visas.
Seriously, WTF. It's insane to allow Russians into the EU except in exceptional cases. It's an obvious security risk given the western world is effectively at war with Russia, and we know Russia is conducting sabotage and surveillance operations in western countries. Russia is also actively attacking western countries, e.g. the drone attack on Poland.
And obviously, Russians don't deserve it: all Russians wealthy enough to travel are meaningfully supporting the invasion. About half of all Russian tax dollars are going to the invasion. If you are in Russia and working, you are meaningfully supporting genocide.
Yulia's Twitter feed is very telling: she pays near zero attention to Ukraine. She's not actually anti-war. She's focused on helping Russians. She even goes as far as to advocate for Russia to keep occupied territory: directly advocating that war criminals keep the loot they stole through genocide.
That HRF continues to work with her and rehabilitate her image is evil.
