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The Loneliness of Vladimir Putin

The New Republic
The Loneliness of Vladimir Putin

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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