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Stefan Meister is director of Heinrich Böll Foundation’s South Caucasus office and co-author of the Brookings books The Eastern Question (2016), Eastern Voices (2017), and The Russia File (2018).
Misperceptions and Illusions
Why does the West so often view Russia through a borrowed Russian lens? AP editorial board member Lilia Shevtsova explores this and other questions with Stefan Meister of the German Council on Foreign Relations.