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Every Politician Deep Inside Is Authoritarian. If The Person Doesn't Have Ambition, That's Not A Politician. Society Needs To Put Every Ambitious, Every Effective Politician Into Such A Position That It Helps - That This Person Helps Improve Society. That's Why I'm Always Talking About Need To Change The System Rather Than Should We Go With Navalny Or Gudkov Or Yavlinsky Or Khodorkovsky. We All Have Our Ambitions. We're All Ambitious People.

People Expect Some Kinds Of Decisions From Putin That Will Help Them See Their Own Future. A Significant Part Of The People That He Relies On Are Quite Content With Him Telling Them That Nothing Is Going To Change. But That Part Of The Elite That Does Want To See Some Changes And Improvements Are Going To Expect Him To, In His Next Term, Bring Russia Back Into The Club Of The Great Powers.

Russian People Really Don't Like It When Somebody Does Horrible Things In Russia, And Then Can Calmly Go Travel To Another Country And Spend Time There. And This Is What Needs To Be Done: The Russian People Need To Be Told This, Because In Today's World, Just Doing Something Is Not Enough. You've Got To Tell About It, Too. If You've Done Something And Haven't Told About It, It's As Good As If You Hadn't Done It At All.

Putin Has An Obvious Problem. His Country's Economy Is In Stagnation. He Needs To Constantly Be Pointing A Figure At Who Is At Fault. America Is At Fault. He Needs To Show Those Fronts - Those Directions In Which He Is Defeating America. In Syria, For Example, In Syria, He Is Defeating America; Not Isis, He's Defeating America.

Navalny Is Doing A Very Important Thing In His Segment Of Society. Gudkov Is A Doing A Very Important Thing In His Segment Of Society. Yabloko, Or More Accurately, Some Of The Leaders Of The Yabloko Party, Are Doing A Very Important Job In Their Segment Of The Population, People Such As Schlosberg. And Our Organization Open Russia Is Also Doing Important Work With Its Segment Of Society, Because Those People Who Are Focused On Us, Our Segment, They're Not Part Of Those Other Segments.