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294 - Vladimir Putin

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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Putin's Kreptocracy

In 2015, according to Karen Dalwisha, author of Putin's kleptocracy, the median or midpoint amount of wealth for the average Russian citizen, right at this time, 2015, 871 dollars. Half the population had less than 871 dollars in assets. Less than India, where in 2015, it was over a thousand dollars. So the average Russian, more impoverished than the average Indian,. not that long ago, India nation, I think, much more well known and most people's minds for widespread poverty. But Russia, more impoverished. We don't hear about it as much thanks to powerful KGB-esque propaganda machines, or the machine that Putin has built. And

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