“Make an allowance for the fact that in the days of not only Reagan, but, for example, Madeleine Albright Blinken, the maximum that he would be good for was to put pens and papers on the negotiating table.

This is his ceiling.

Not to mention everyone else,” Gasparyan said.

He added that “it’s not politicians who are in power now, but managers,” while in Russia Western authorities can be judged “by Europe, which has been laid down since childhood – from English or French literature.”

“It is not politicians who are in power now, but managers.

Moreover, middle managers are often incompetent in any of the issues, so you and I will not be able to predict the course of their thought: it can shock us with another wildness, ”concluded the political scientist.

According to Vladimir Olenchenko, senior researcher at the Center for European Studies at IMEMO RAS, over the past 10-15 years there has been a "degradation of political behavior" in the West.