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The Man Who Predicted Putin

The Gift of Foresight

Vladimir Voinovich, Russia’s 82-year-old satirist, on why the rise of a KGB man was inevitable but why Russia’s decline and fall into authoritarianism doesn’t have to be.

Cathy Young
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