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A Former CIA Official on One Year of Russia's War in Ukraine

Odd Lots

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Putin and the Oligarchs in Russia

The Russian state historically has never shied away from pushing people out of windows or impaling them. The oligarchs, when they came in, it just basically seized. They acquired a great deal of power and Putin was really against that. And I think what we're left with there is a surprisingly homogeneous level of support for Putin in the country.

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