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In Moscow's Shadows 82: What Prigozhin Wants, What Putin Believes, and Why Russia Might Create its own Bureau 39

In Moscow's Shadows

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Why Not Use Organized Crime to Build Your Own Bureau 39

Mark Gallyotti: If you're willing to basically embrace your status as Mordor, it actually makes depressing sense to build your own Bureau 39. He says Putin will have no more hope of any kind of substantive improvement in relations with the West. "If we see this use of criminality really expand and above all begin to get an institutional basis, then it will tell us that Putin has made the plunge"

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