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Experience for many russians that fell off that perch, and, you know, they clung on. they have clung onto vladimir putin as their leader who can give them their pride back, and thats past been one of the main reasons for his enduring popularity today that he has given russians back their sense of pride, and i think we shouldnt dismiss that incredibly important factor in this election and in putins popularity in general. in term of russias response and russias attitude towards the united states -...

Fareed, is an underappreciated fact about russia and about vladimir putin. yes, i think he is genuinely popular, and i know love russians personally and professionally, and despite their western leanings in many ways, i do genuinely believe that vladimir putin is the right kind of leader, the strong kind of leader as they would characterize him, needed to manage a country as diverse and vast as this, and putin placed of that of course. he also plays to this hypernationalistic card which is that ...

Probably russias leading opposition politician has a long interview in "the times of london" this morning and said, look, the weapons response so far has the kremlin laughing because this is precisely what they wanted. they wanted what he calls another installment in the tv show that they are running called, "look, look, the west hates us," and that that, you know, feeds putins nationalism and his base. so where do you go from there? is this crisis provoked for that reason? and if thats the case...

Trump was the candidate, when he was elected president of the u.s., when russians really believed, after years of being, you know, kind of jostled around and being disrespected by the obama administration and those earlier that they thought the situation was going to turn around. they had really high hopes that donald trump was the president who was going to see the world from their point of view, and so they have immensely disappointed in the past year and a half or so, since the trump presiden...

Newspaper. its not like a regular oil company. its an appendage of the kremlin. i think the big point here is the way in which unscrupulous powers like russia can take advantage of the porousness of the western system, the fact that were open. for decades the kgb was trying to reshape american politics. now these methods have been updated for the age of facebook and twitter and social media. what were seeing is an astonishing ability to microtarget people and push people to the ex-streams, to tr...

And the consulate in st. petersburg and, you know, we thrives on this idea that he is seen as somebody who is a strong leader, who will stand you to the west and yes. i do believe that although there are a lot of people in russia that despise him, there are far more who think he is the right guy for the job. >> let me ask you, matthew, again if looking at these polls -- there are two more i want to esshow you and get your response. there are numbers of people who regret the collapse of the sovie...

To which we are complicit in putins power. he showed how he took money out of the russian state, he and people around him. he laundered it abroad, and brought it back into russia and brought property, and thats how they engineered the rise to power and western banks, western tax havens, western havens and lawyers and shell companies, all kinds of people particularly in london and also in new york, miami and paris helped them all along the way, and this is why they have so much disdain for the we...

Spy but traded in a spy swap for people who were based in the united states, and in other words by doing so, russia broke all kinds of unstated rules, you know? you dont attack spies who have been traded and pardoned. the use of a military grade chemical weapon in the middle of a crowded city center of a small city, all kinds of assumptions that we make about how civilized countries behave inside one anothers borders were broken, and the message had to have been one of disdain for london. we don...

And for decades, the kgb was trying to reshape european and american politics, but now these methods have been updated for the age of facebook and twitter and social media, and what were seeing is an astonishing ability to microtarget people, and to push people to the extremes to try to polarize the conversation and what putin has been doing is instead of trying to instrumentalize social divisions in europe and america and elsewhere, its for their own advantage. its scary, and our democracy is i...

Thats more speed than at&ts comparable bundle, for less. call today. our quarrel is with putins kremlin and his decision, and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the uk, on the streets of europe for the first time since the second world war. >> that was the british foreign secretary boris johnson on friday pointing the finger for the poisoning of an ex-double agent and his daughter on british soil. earlier in the week,...