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Authors
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
  • Janis Kluge

    Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin
  • Jeremy Morris

    Ethnographer of postsocialist societies and is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
  • Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin

    Lecturer in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University
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