Russia

Farewell to Vladimir Voinovich, the Satirist Who Mocked the Soviet Union and Predicted Putin

SHARP PEN

His novels earned him exile from Russia, and then he was welcomed back, but Voinovich was always a thorn in the side of the powerful.

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