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  Contemporary Korea Victoria Murio Vicky in the savanna Columbia University International Affairs professor

thank you Vicki for those insights and and come as questions chair of the political science department at Columbia University 5 minutes or so the first one panel that I've done and it's really terrific to get these, some of which I anticipated in the riding and some let me start with the kids comment about why his discourse been so debased

working in the background in the fall but I don't really take it on head on and that was a conscious decision because I was afraid that that would then just get the hackles up and reinforce the kind of polarisation and compel me into one camp or another and one thing about the book is there's a lot of stuff for each side of the Russia Hawk Russian Dove divide to not like I mean the Russia Hawks won't like it to learn that when we get these surveys and Putin in 2015 yes people weren't lying when they answer the question about Putin's approval and be in a Rachel Maddow as the kind of Russia hysterics won't like to hear that when you look at Russian efforts in 2016 the chances that they have turned the election in Trump's favor I really am really so that was a conscious choice not to take that debate head-on are the reason why the Russia discourse is so two-faced it is hard to study it's far away it's opaque as I get to staple lots of room for a all kinds of claims that are hard too hard to disprove it doesn't help things in the sentence and often criticized the debate themselves in ways that are not helpful at all but one question I kept going back to that would have been reminded reader consider first Latino persuasive art of the readership that you're never going to persuade so when I try to load the dice and favor and just keep going out coming at the reader with more and more evidence and then at the end in o people have been a good thing for a hour Timothy fry the limits of power in Putin's Russia to be in that kind of rolls into is well and this was a real tension in the book and maybe I go overboard on trying to paint rush it too much as a normal autocracy that too was something of a choice in that so much of writing about Russia is in the vein is unlike other leaders that Russia is so unique that I was pushing against that and you know you might think that I go too far but also that was really kind of a corrective based on where I think much of the writing on Russia is today because you have to make a choice illicit 9 comparison of Russia to other countries were people only look at Russia and then their explanations are rooted only in factors that occur in Russia and then by definition you can't go whether you know the prophecies that are going on with in Russia the same as in other countries so trying to balance off you know what makes Russia special and what makes it imperative that Russian better educated you know that the Russians are less interested in politics then another country the way you aren't either way you establish that if I'm looking outside so only by looking outside can we figure out what is unique and what's not and then the title and Steve said that I'm strong man I appreciate the whole bed that point of view the point of trying to make you as I think it a lot of discussions about Russia in the west there is this assumption that because is unrivalled politically but he can just do whatever he wants the bureaucracy just snaps to his orders because he know he is all-powerful and he is such a persuasive character in the west coast has probably reading your emails right now because he has this incredible you know currently powerful Cajun Vita is easy ways to be able to manipulate the internet and waste it leads to Russia's advantage and I want to push back against those views and really still look at what you know what can cause I'm doing really well crush them the political opposition and to make Alternatives less appealing if you'd look for example of the approval ratings ratings have been high no one else's ratings have been hi everyone else is a big gap between and everybody else in the approval rating so I appoint them quite well and they both said that that's a serious   and I think no I were were often forced to make trade-offs in you know the writing a book for a general audience you really got...

Like to spend more time talking about 1 of this is that they kind of history of personal isn't in Russia Russia experiences for long periods of time and even if we think about Russia you know that at the highest levels in the Yeltsin era you had it was very much a personal assistant ruler but he had to struggle every year to get the pass through this and that was an epic battle each year and different

collecting so much power in his own hand it allows them to do certain things but not others in a lot of those other things are important for building power within Russia

just talked about him telling his writing is well to resolve all problems and it creates lots of unintended consequences that I try to try to point out in the bible. ,

organized crime connection Petersburg mayor's office early in their careers before they made it so if I do mention what is experienced in the Leningrad City governments and B charges that there he was in charge of a kind of food import program and lots of allegations that involved in this. 

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