this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, from the czars in czarrinas to soviet air come issars, to president putin. we delve into the nature of power in russia. looking at the past to help us understand the present. i ll talk to the new yorker s david remnick and professor nina khrushcheva. and also the prime minister of barbados on getting the west to pay for damage from climate change rising seas and wild weather. two degrees is a death sentence. and the president of kenya on why many nations in the global south are not taking a side on the war in ukraine. but first, here is my take. in his important book the third wave, samuel huntington pointed out the division among the ruling elite is a key sign of weakness in authoritarian regimes. when members of the establishment break with the system, it triggers a larger set of changes. conversely, when you do not se
hundreds of thousands of likely well trained urban educated russians who fled the country after its aggression against ukraine. what explains the stunning mismatch in russia? a new book by the scholar alexander edkin, russia against modernity, makes the case that putin has created a state that g gets revenues by exacting natural resources and fulfilled none of the functions of a modern state in terms of providing welfare for people. corruption is in this regime noting that post soviet russia has seen the fastest rise in inequality anywhere in the world. after the protests against him in 2011 and 2012, which enraged putin blamed on then secretary hillary clinton, the russian state became even more anti-modern. for putin s regime, the west