Digital world Quote by Malcolm Nance

“Today the Internet is the everyman’s platform. To control it, Putin would have to control the mind of every single user, which simply isn’t…

— Andrei Soldatov

Look at it from [Vladimir] Putin's perspective, right. He's a trained intelligence officer, worked for the KGB, very talented, manipulated people much smarter than…

— Michael Morell

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is…

— Anna Politkovskaya

But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's…

— Garry Kasparov

If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at…

— Edward Snowden

Stop pyschoanalyzing Putin, and recognize that there is a certain mind set. The West must draw a line under 'Putinography' and just get on…

— Fiona Hill

If you read anything I've written about Putin, heard anything I've said about Russia since I left in 2000, you'd know that I'm not…

— Michael Caputo

“Nearly every night there were screenings in the private projection rooms in the Kremlin or the various dachas. Khrushchev says that Stalin was particularly…

— Martin Amis

We had a general awareness, for example, of Russian use of social media - Facebook ads, use of Twitter, fake news implants - we…

— James R. Clapper

“Like most regimes not based on genuine popular support in an era of open access to information, Putin’s is inherently unstable and requires vigilant…

— Gregory Feifer

The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has not been…

— Barack Obama

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

— Adam Kinzinger