As the United States turns inward and focuses on this week’s election, the rest of the world is watching closely, too. Ivan Kurilla is a political science professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg. He teaches Russian students about US history, US-Russia relations and contemporary US politics. Kurilla speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about conversations happening in his classroom this week.
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