Berlin — Seeking to describe the fractious, stalled nature of the Russian opposition working in exile, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a young Chechen human rights defender, referred to a Russian fable from the early 1800s called “Swan, Pike and Crawfish.”
The three incompatible animals, all harnessed to the same cart, pull constantly in different directions, so that it never moves, Yangulbaev said.