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Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
Ivan Krastev
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In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.
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For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
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The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
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Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
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The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.
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The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
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True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
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Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.
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As a rule, governments monitor people.
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America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
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America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'
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