Conditions precedent and the rise of populist autocrat Putin, via Sandy Vershbow, US Ambassador to Russia, 2001-2005. Plus bonus Russian hit song “One Like Putin”. Your internal soundscape may never be the same. The second country in American Diplomat’s series, “Is It Happening Here?”
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