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Victor Monteverdi (a pseudonym) is an independent observer.
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After Putin
Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin–all were at the helm of unintended revolutions that centralized Russian authority.
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Russian Roulette
It’s high time to discuss not only Putin’s errors—but our own.
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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.