I like Elvira Bary’s wide competence of historical, political and human matters in general. She is a Russian writer and intellectual, recently very active in a YouTube channel. She has received the blessings of the Russian federation as a serious critic of the Russian regime, being placed on a “foreign agents” list. She lives in California for many years already, but she has been growing up in the Soviet Union and lived in Russia during the 1990s.
Here are some of her contributions on You Tube: