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Putinism Is a Russian Cultural Need for Reconciliation and Reconciliation
Mark Gallyotti: The last Ringbearer represents one of the best science fictional roots in to the modern Russian psyche. In his own way, I think Yeskov was tapping into a deep-rooted cultural need for some kind of sense of redemption and reinterpretation of Russia. After Putin, this need will still be there - but it is also going to be something that the Russians are going to have to work their way through.