Tony Wood teaches history at the University of Colorado Boulder. Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War was published by Verso in 2018.
Whether they killed him quickly or slowly, there is no doubt who is responsible for Alexei Navalny’s demise. Yet even though his was a death many times foretold, the news that came on 16 February was still a profound shock, and a demoralising one for Putin’s opponents.
Tony Wood talks to James Meek about his book Russia with Putin, which looks at, among other things, the legacy of Soviet infrastructure and the extent of political opposition in today’s Russia.
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