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The Lustration of Putin
I hate oligarch Gusinski. He blatantly hired Bob Koff, the deputy head of the KGB who was responsible for persecuting dissidents. Now literally, those people who worked for Bob Koff as young employees are putting Yashin Karamurza and me in jail. Even then, giving the president the power of a full fledged monarch, he goes on. I think this is really interesting because he's very much setting himself against those people who essentially present what happened with Putin as part of some kind of KGB veterans, Czechists, creeping coup of the country. And on one level, that's a very appealing narrative. But it also takes a lot of the blame off the