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Vladimir Putin

The War in Ukraine and the Three Phases of a Post-Soviet Life
The War that Showed Us How an Underdog Can Beat the Russian Army, Or My Latest for The Daily Beast about the War in Ukraine
How Putin Is His Own Kind Of Monster, Or Why Nazi-Germany Is Not the Answer to Every Question
The Russian Mile Post, or Finland, the Åland Islands, and the Russian Empire in the Baltic
Svetlana Alexievich and the Politics of the Swedish Academy.