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American Beauty #44 with Jiří Sobota, Barbora Chaloupková and Filip Scherf about the development of US-Russia relations and their different views on the world. Hosted by Štěpán Sedláček Bashar Assad fled to Moscow and Russia may lose, among other things, a strategic port on the Mediterranean coast after the fall of the Syrian dictator's regime. Did Vladimir Putin experience a humiliating defeat in Syria? How has Russia changed under the influence of the Russian president over the past quarter century? What role do the events of the 1990s and privatization according to the plans of American economists play in this? Why do many in the US and Europe not understand Russia? Is it really so different from the West? And what will happen after Donald Trump returns to the White House with Ukraine? This is not the only topic discussed in the Respekt Weekly's American Beauty by Barbora Chaloupková, Jiří Sobota, Štěpán Sedláček and their guest Filip Scherf, an expert on Russia who currently works at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom and is the author of the book Lost Land: The Story of Modern Russia.