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If Mr Putin is assassinated as Mr Ponomarev suggests, who will take the former's place? Another despot? Did Stalin's, Mao's or Kim's deaths end dictatorship in their respective regimes?

Russian, Chinese and North Korean citizens are closely watched and identified. George Orwell's telescreen in his novel, 1984, has come to life especially in China.

The surveillance state seems to be rising in the USA. 😞

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I don't mean to be impolite, but I agree with Glen Greenwald. This conversation is insane. I'm surprised FP ran it. https://shorturl.at/rN8ps

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michael moynihan is a pretty decent interviewer. I hope you commission him to do more.

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Thank you for a very interesting discussion. Ilya Ponomarev correctly states that around 2010 crowdsourcing was used to compile material for a new constitution but in early 2013 it became politically doomed and since a more traditional step by step process is being used. Björn Bjarnason

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