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Putin’s bad 2020

2020 should have been a great year for Vladimir Putin, but, like for so many other people with big plans for this year, it is ending quite disappointingly. The year promised much in the way of maintaining Putin in power for years to come.…

Putin, now and forever

Vladimir Putin has lasted twenty years and counting in the Kremlin by following the tried-and-tested rules of Russian politics: convincing his elites that life with him is better than any alternative existence without him, mobilizing the…