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How Yeltsin really paved the way for Putin
Jeff Hawn sees Boris Yeltsin as a deliberate gravedigger of Russian democracy rather than its beleaguered protector
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The Unreformed Russian Military
Jeff Hawn on why Russia’s military never outgrew the brutal mindset of its Soviet origins