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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Only Russia could have produced a man like Korzhakov and ended up giving him so much power

Thomas de Waal

  • Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk by Aleksandr Korzhakov
  • Romance with the President by Vyacheslav Kostikov

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Thomas de Waal has been covering the Caucasus and Chechnya since 1994, as Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is researching a book on the Black Sea.

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