Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Kotkin, Thank you Mr Fridman for one of the most interesting interviews I have heard on your show. Maybe I should restate that and say that I believe this is the most important interview I have heard on anyone’s show. To cut to the chase," at <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkkjnpS2f8&amp;t=1m23s"">1:23</a> in your videocast", you ask Mr Kotkin what he would say to President Putin. Mr Fridman, I know this is going to sound like I am speaking like a ‘Combatant de la liberté’. Perhaps I am a freedom fighter with words, but what I want to say is something I think you alone can do for your former country and our planet. Can you use your influence and ability to speak Russian and your positive energy to get Mr Kotkin and President Putin in a conversation at some time in the near future? You don’t realize that what you and Mr Kotkin have done with this interview is to give Russia and Mr Putin a chance to hear a very gifted and intelligent scholar like Mr Kotkin say exactly what ails the Russian government. Can you please think this over, and use all of your skills to try yourself to contact President Putin? When you do get his ear, can you ask him to have Mr Kotkin come and talk with him. You could be the interpreter. Don’t you see? Mr Kotkin has pointed out what Russian needs: strong institutions: the judiciary, the parliament. This is what Mr Putin cannot see. You love your home country, I believe President Putin will see the light in talking to Mr Kotkin. Please try to get President Putin and Mr Kotkin together. You can do this and it will make Russia the country she was meant to be. President Putin is on the wrong track, but Mr Kotkin can help him change his ways and rebuild the country’s institutions. There is no other way for Russia to regain its rightful place in the world than to have its institutions able to function independently. It’s an opinion. Thank you Mr Kotkin for showing your country and the world what Russia needs to do to become a successful country once again. Peace.