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...ND: There are several aspects to Putin. The positive aspect for Russia is that he has brought a considerable stability to the Russian economy. He is very much appreciated by the Russian people and you can see this in the political polls. However, those in the West, including myself, who had hoped that Russia would move toward a democratic structure, have all been very disappointed...
...ND: Time...
...ND: Time. Plus, I don’t think you can export democracy. George Bush and those folks thought you could, but I don’t think you can. For democracy to happen people have to understand what democracy is and they have to want to adopt it. Each country that tries to go down the democratic road is probably going to have a different democracy than the Americans have...
...ND: They needed somebody whom they could make out to be a spy. As a Western journalist in the Soviet Union you poked around in areas that were secret. So how do you find secret information? You work through Soviet journalists and try to wheedle out of them what they know. If the secret police wanted to build up the reputation of a newly arrived American correspondent, they would feed him information that nobody else had. The KGB had an interest in building up the Western correspondent, the Western correspondent had an interest in getting exclusives...
...ND: Sure. He was disguised as a journalist, but he also tried to become my personal friend. He’d invite me to go cross-country skiing on Sundays out in the countryside. We would go to dinner together sometimes...