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I think that Russian meddling in the election is an important issue.

I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times. It's a way of protesting.

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

In war you're either a collaborator or you're a resistor. I mean you don't get to be neutral.

I realized - I've been an opposition journalist in Russia for a long time. And I've often considered how real risks are and how much of a risk I can take.

My family immigrated to the States in 1981, when I was 14.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be exactly the monster that I thought he was.

Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.

The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager.

I think that when you emigrate, when everything you took for granted disappears, it's a kind of loss of innocence. When you're a kid, the world as you know it is just there. Suddenly, you emigrate and that's no longer the case. It's a break in reality that parachutes you into adulthood.

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap into.

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.

It seems that probably Putin's father maintained some connection to the secret police throughout his life. One sign of that is that they had a telephone, and people didn't have telephones in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all these Parisian architects who had been brought in to build the apartment buildings in the center of town.

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

Americans voted for Trump. A lot of people in this country feel the system of representative democracy hasn't worked for them for a long, long time. And those are the issues that this election gives us an unfortunate opportunity to engage with. And engaging instead with the Russia conspiracy takes up that bandwidth.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state on the ruins of a totalitarian regime. And so we end up with a mafia state and a totalitarian society.

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