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The Fall of Medvedev
The fall of Medvedev is in many ways also the start of, if only we'd known it at the time, our own war with the West. It was an end to that hope of a kindly gentler Putinism. The media was going to be in that role for the next eight years. But it's clear that it's not just that the job had changed, but that Midwiedev himself had changed.