I was asked to keynote about youth power and youth democracy and change. And i was like, This is great, right? This is amazing. And then I get there, and the conference, yes, has people from all over the former Soviet Union, but it also has the head of the KGB or the FSB and they're coming down hard on saying no one will ever mess with Russia's national story. I said, this is so going south. This whole country is not going where we thought it was going to go. That's a moment that I really shifted how I thought about the promise of democracy and how you need to be organized in order to make it work. - Fernande Raine
Laura Osborne
Welcome to change my mind, the podcast where we ask leaders what they've changed their mind on and why I'm Laura Osborne, poles apart, co author and WPI economics managing director. You've just heard from our guest today, Fernanda Raine, CEO of the history collab, who changed her mind on how straightforward it is to have a democratic Russia. This series of the podcast is sponsored by 1014 you'll hear more from them a bit later on. And if you'd like to listen to previous episodes, you can visit openDemocracy, who host all of them on their website. Just search openDemocracy and change my mind for more as ever, I'm joined for today's episodes by my co hosts, president of accord, Ali Goldsworthy,
