Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy: The American education of Vladimir Putin
A live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a TV screen at a restaurant in Moscow.
"The problem you Americans have in dealing with us is that you think you understand us, but you don't. You look at the Chinese and you think: 'They're not like us.' You look at us Russians, and you think, 'They're like us.' But you're wrong. We are not like you." Over the past few years, top-ranking Russians have repeatedly delivered versions of the admonition above to American interlocutors.