The Loneliness of Vladimir Putin
The New Republic
As the games in Sotchi begin, this is probably the best background report you can read. Julia Ioffe, Russian-born former Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, on Putin’s Russia, a country falling apart.
From Weekly Filet #149, in February 2014.
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