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Ostrovsky goes to great lengths to inform the reader that Russia, at it exists today, is not a warped transmogrification of its former soviet self, but a new and more pernicious creation altogether. Engrossing, carefully written and well researched, the author explains that the collapse of the Soviet Union, the humiliating and sad final state of president Yeltsin and broad efforts by oligarchs brought Putin into power. Putin was a little-known and non-political deputy mayor of St. Petersburg tha
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This book addresses the emergence of Russia from the perspective of the media. It is well written and deserves another half star.
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