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Tsakhia Elbegdorj is the former president of Mongolia, 2009-2017.
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Putin’s Soviet Delusion
Soviet mythology is a driving force in the Kremlin’s justification of war. On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, experts address the long shadow of the USSR. Part two in a series.