In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin

In Moscow's Shadows

English - July 10, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MB
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I look at the career of Igor Girkin, better known as Strelkov, the ultra-nationalist who has turned against Putin - but gets away with it. What does it tell us about Russian politics?

In the second half, I read the coda added to later editions of my book 'We Need To Talk About Putin' to reflect the invasion of Ukraine and expand on a few points in it.

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