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Putin's Stage Two Is a Dysfunctional State
Timothy Stanley's new book is Road to Unfreedom. He looks at the evolution of Vladimir Putin over his two presidencies. In stage one, he tried to centralize power and did away with other oligarchs. But in stage two when he comes back, he recognizes that he can't make the Russian state function. And so he moves to a politics of spectacle where Russia is always right.