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Voice of America
April 4, 2018
Their domestic arrangements were similar to the way they had existed in exile — unostentatious," writes Victor Sebestyen, author of an acclaimed new biography on Lenin. The couple rarely dined in the well-stocked Kremlin restaurant — Lenin's wife could be seen "trudging along the pavements with blackÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 25, 2018
The book also studies Putin's statesponsored rise to power and why he could be in the Kremlin for years to come. "The key to understanding Putin," Mr Feltshinsky said, "is to understand his background, and here, the theory that his official biography is a fiction must be accepted. "Once the theory that PutinÃâà...
Irish Times
March 23, 2018
Russian pride: Vladimir Putin on holiday in Siberia in 2009. Photograph: Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty. Walker's excellent, acutely observed book is not a biography. Nor is it an anti-Putin polemic or an apologia for the Kremlin's policies. Instead it charts Putin's mission “to fill the void left by the 1991 collapseÃâà...
CNN (blog)
March 23, 2018
Experienced Russia watchers and diplomacy experts offer insights into Russian President Vladimir Putin's biography, persona, and why he wanted to interfere in America's 2016 Presidential Election to defeat Hillary Clinton and help elect Donald Trump. The special also explores how Russia's internalÃâà...
TASS
March 16, 2018
MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Russia will hold its presidential elections on Sunday, March 18. Eight candidates are running for the highest office in the Russian Federation. Among them is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the longtime leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). Vladimir Zhirinovsky was born in the city ofÃâà...
TASS
March 16, 2018
MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Russia will hold its presidential elections on Sunday, March 18. Eight candidates are running for the highest office in the Russian Federation. Among them is the incumbent head of state, Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg) on October 7, 1952.
Business Day
March 15, 2018
Myriad books and articles have documented Vladimir Putin's ambiguous amalgamation of Stalin and czar, exposing him as the master puppeteer behind outright malevolence both domestically and in many corners of the globe. And Masha Gessen's The Future is History: How Totalitarianism ReclaimedÃâà...
