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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa

3.0

Nice series of interviews/portraits of people surviving and getting by in Putin's Russia. I could've done with more connective tissue between the threads, though. I liked the theme of the "wily man" as the soul of modern Russia - a smart, cynical character who dances over the line between conformity and compromise under an oppressive regime.