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What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.

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The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

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Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

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In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.

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For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

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The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

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Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

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True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

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Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

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