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Дэвид Ремник, главный редактор журнала New Yorker, не понаслышке знаком с Россией. В 1988-1992 он работал московским корреспондентом Washington Post. Его наблюдения за обстоятельствами распада СССР вошли в книгу Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, которая в 1994 принесла ему Пулитцеровскою премию.

Когда в 1989 по советскому телевидению показали "компромат" на Ельцина в виде записи его пьяных выступлений в США, Ремник писал в своем репортаже:

A Soviet intellectual who was packing her bags to emigrate to the United States said, ``I looked at Yeltsin -- someone I voted for -- and I feared for this country if he ever got more power than he has now. I was embarrassed. I really don`t care if he was drinking or not, that`s probably not fair to judge. But please, tell me you don`t have such buffoons in the United States.``
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-10-05/news/8902020748_1_boris-yeltsin-moscow-communist-party-johns-hopkins-university

9 ноября 2016, на следующий день после избрания Трампа Ремник написал редакционную заметку под названием "An American tragedy", одну из самых алармистких в либеральной прессе.

The commentators, in their attempt to normalize this tragedy, will also find ways to discount the bumbling and destructive behavior of the F.B.I., the malign interference of Russian intelligence, the free pass—the hours of uninterrupted, unmediated coverage of his rallies—provided to Trump by cable television, particularly in the early months of his campaign. We will be asked to count on the stability of American institutions, the tendency of even the most radical politicians to rein themselves in when admitted to office. Liberals will be admonished as smug, disconnected from suffering, as if so many Democratic voters were unacquainted with poverty, struggle, and misfortune. There is no reason to believe this palaver. <...> But despair is no answer. To combat authoritarianism, to call out lies, to struggle honorably and fiercely in the name of American ideals—that is what is left to do. That is all there is to do.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-2

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