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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 that's 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 shouldn't dismiss that incredibly important factor in this election and in putin's popularity in general. in term of russia's response and russia's attitude towards the united states -- i mean look. there was a moment when donald trump was the candidate, when he was elected pres...

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 russia under putin is a strong country. it will stand up to interference and intimidation from the w...

Probably russia's leading opposition politician has a long interview in "the times of london" this morning and said, look, the weapon's 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 putin's nationalism and his base. so where do you go from there? is this crisis provoked for that reason? and if that's the case, the more you oppose him, the more it plays into this game. >> first of all, kicking out 23 dip...

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 presidency began that that did not happen, and i think that when your hopes are high and they're unfulfilled...

Newspaper. it's not like a regular oil company. it's 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 we're 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 we're seeing is an astonishing ability to microtarget people and push people to the ex-streams, to try to polarize the conversation. what putin has been doing is try to instrumentalize social divis...