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David Satter is an American authority on Russia - a man who cares so much about Russia and the Russian people that he bothers to understand them. And to tell the truth about them, as he knows it. Speaking of knowing: His latest book is "The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep."

With Jay, he talks about Putin, the diaspora, democracy, Trump, Stalin, literature, and a lot more. An experienced, learned, and bold scholar and journalist. He says that Westerners have misunderstood Russia for years - they think the rest of the world is like them. Satter, for one, avoids that mistake.

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