Derek J Duvel

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On April 17, Putin held his annual televised hotline. Before he entered the studio, one of the two hosts set the stage: If things were different, I might have said that this will be yet another conversation, but on this day we have a different country listening to us. Russia is now united with Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.* We have been waiting for this moment for twenty-three long years, ever since the Soviet Union fell apart. For this reason every question today will be either directly related to Crimea or will have a subtext colored by Crimea.29 The show lasted nearly four hours. A lot ...more
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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