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A diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens as the successor to the soviet union and somehow or other images of. Starvation in the country of extreme cold discomfort of. The kinds of things that unfortunately still linger and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for a western or former western diplomat. When it comes to russia because. I think theres a lot of understanding theres also a lot of compassion in your book and i really appreciate that but i will want to ask you wh...

A former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland and. The mother asked postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later ...

Impossible not to agree that many of those adventures created more harm than good and yet they also produce very little in the way of south reflection to what extent this insistence on portraying russia as redeeming really ugly is predict a date on the needs of the west who sees itself as invariably good despite all its recent policy blunders yes i think youre absolutely right. Its very important for the west and i laid however you define that military diplomatic political media that. Believe in their own objectivity they have to believe in it but its not just objectivity its some sort of inte...

Basic decency towards this country has become so does your mental conditioning and mutual propagandizing to the point where people come to believe each other if they keep telling each other thats good you know if you if you repeat lies often enough they become the truth and when youve got people in in time Media Communities who are constantly referencing each other with attitudes and opinions that really have no basis in fact unfortunately fulfill turn to will to fulfill to the reality takes hold and i found when i decided to come to russia i was confronted by my friends and my colleagues in c...

Let me start out by thinking everybody who put on this festival. It is day two of the amazing event here in the tucson premier book festival of the country. Of course, the great part of what is going on here in arizona. Lets give them a big round of applause. As i said yesterday, we ended one streak, but there is a new streak of good book festivals that has just started out. Maybe just as important. We are very lucky to have doug stanton with us here today. Before i start, would like to take a moment of personal privilege to a to do someone who is here in the audience who i had a chance to get...