The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
New Books in World Affairs
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What Do People Get Wrong About Putin?
I think one of the big problems is that we tend to caricature him and show him as, yes, a kind of govling kind, but all black. And I think it is one of the things that people get wrong. Most Russians now live better than they have at any, under any previous leader. It's difficult for people to accept that even with the repression, the added repression that has piled in over the last few years in Russia.
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