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If you're a news junkie like me, there are times when even the cornucopia of journalism available isn't enough to sate your curiosity or answer all of your questions. It's just too hard to fit the history of the Cold War or the shifting boundaries of Eastern Europe into a six-minute news segment on NPR, [...]
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The journalist Masha Gessen discusses her new book about Vladimir Putin's rise to power and what he has done with it.
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