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Russian Is Such A Tough And Complex Language That I Am Happy Enough To Understand Everything And Read Most Things Pretty Well, But, Without Constant Practice, My Speech Is Not What I Wish It Was, And I Would Sooner Write In Crayon Than Write A Letter In Russian.

The Notion That Somehow Through A Trade War Or Protectionism Or Magical Thinking That We're Going To Return To A Romanticized Economic Past Is, In The End, Going To Be An Illusion. And A Severe Disappointment To Millions Of Decent, Hard-working People.

Every Good Journalist Is Aware That His Trade May One Day Go The Way Of Phrenology-and, What's More, The Population Will Hardly Protest The Extinction.

I'm Interested In Russian Language, Culture, History... And I Lived There, For Four Years, As A Reporter For The Washington Post And Have Visited Many Times Since.

Democratic Institutions, Even In The Oldest Operating Democracy In The World, Are Anything But Perfect.