Ivan Krastev

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

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

I don't like to get in front of people.