I've found his remarks about corruption in institutions and governance in Russia strikingly similar to what's going on in the USA now and more particularly the USA roll destroying institutions of governance on a worldwide scale. Similarly the way the elite running the USA attacks, cripples, jails, or murders figures it opposes. I'm not referring to the puppet stick figures of Trump or Obama or Clinton or even the Bush family. Rather it's the elite people grown in such institutions as the CIA, FBI, many of the Ivy League schools who actually run things. They no longer run them in part for the general good but for their own interest 100%.