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In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s

In Moscow's Shadows

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Mangoose's Real Profession Was as a Publicist, a Political Strategist and a Mercenary

Mangoose Mangushev describes himself as, this is his own words, a bit of a PR man, a political strategist. But on the other hand, he appears to have fought earlier in Ukraine back in 2014 when this was a still very much a war of militias. He hobbed knob with local politicians like Alexander Borodai, briefly the prime minister of the DNR and neo-Nazis. His real profession was as a publicist, a political technologist, a propagandist back in Russia.

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