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Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent. - Ivan Krastev
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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. - Ivan Krastev
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Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged. - Ivan Krastev
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Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments. - Ivan Krastev
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Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground. - Ivan Krastev
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For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S. - Ivan Krastev
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Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also believe that Germans understand them best because they've been through a big war and know what humiliation means. - Ivan Krastev
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A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe. - Ivan Krastev
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Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them. - Ivan Krastev
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Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information. - Ivan Krastev
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Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. - Ivan Krastev
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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. - Ivan Krastev
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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. - Ivan Krastev
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The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order. - Ivan Krastev
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America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination. - Ivan Krastev
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