The more things change, the more they stay the same. While the upcoming US presidential elections feature many firsts – the first contest between septuagenarians, the first vote during a nationwide pandemic ... the tactics employed to attract and distract voters remain remarkably consistent. Allegations of corruption from the right and salacious innuendos from the left, all spiced, as usual, with claims of Russian interference. Can it get any dirtier? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Dmitry Suslov, deputy director at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE.