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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Global Questions 20220115 17:39:00

I would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the problem. on the other hand, i also have to say that if we look across, notjust to this crisis but back, 30 years back, to what has transpired, we can see that the west never formulated a conception of where russia should be and how it should fit with the west. russia was never institutionally brought into the west. so, you know, it has been othered and it has become the other. and that is the sad situation we find ourselves in. there is a well known chinese saying that i like to cite. it takes two hands to clap. and perhaps russia bears most responsibility for the current crisis, but i would certainly say that it is more complicated than that. ok, let s go to our second question now from alexander petrilenko. hello. when the international community shakes hands with the kremlin, is it immoral and dangerous? is it immoral and dangerous to shake ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Global Questions 20220120 02:38:00

I think a lot of those wounds were self inflicted. yeah, the fact that russia has authoritarian backsliding. who are we to blame for this? it s us. we did it to ourselves, the fact that russia doesn t have freedoms that you would expect in a democratic country, the fact that there is serious corruption, all of those problems. i would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the problem. 0n the other hand, i also have to say that if we look across, notjust to this crisis, but back, 30 years back, to what has transpired, we can see that the west never formulated a conception of where russia should be and how it should fit with the west. russia was never institutionally brought into the west. so, you know, it has been othered and it has become the other. and that is the sad situation we find ourselves in. there is a well known chinese saying that i like to cite. it takes two hands to clap. and perhaps russia bears most responsibility for the current c ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Global Questions 20220118 02:38:00

Yeah, the fact that russia has authoritarian backsliding. who are we to blame for this? it s us. we did it to ourselves, the fact that russia doesn t have freedoms that you would expect in a democratic country, the fact that there is serious corruption, all of those problems. i would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the problem. on the other hand, i also have to say that if we look across, notjust to this crisis, but back, 30 years back, to what has transpired, we can see that the west never formulated a conception of where russia should be and how it should fit with the west. russia was never institutionally brought into the west. so, you know, it has been othered and it has become the other. and that is the sad situation we find ourselves in. there is a well known chinese saying that i like to cite. it takes two hands to clap. and perhaps russia bears most responsibility for the current ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Global Questions 20220116 15:39:00

Itself out of europe, maybe has shot itself out of europe. you know, as a russian, i think a lot of those wounds were self inflicted. the fact that russia has authoritarian backsliding. who are we to blame for this? it s us. we did it to ourselves, the fact that russia doesn t have freedoms that you would expect in a democratic country, the fact that there is serious corruption, all of those problems. i would not blame them on cia agents or western consultants. so we have this side of the problem. on the other hand, i also have to say that if we look across, notjust to this crisis but back, 30 years back, to what has transpired, we can see that the west never formulated a conception of where russia should be and how it should fit with the west. russia was never institutionally brought into the west. so, you know, it has been othered and it has become the other. and that is the sad situation we find ourselves in. there is a well known chinese saying ....

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