Six years ago I wrote an article for Prospect Magazine in which I argued that Vladimir Putin was highly unlikely to seek a return to the Russian presidency in 2012. It was an article that expressed my hope at the time that the incremental changes the country was seeing under then-president Dmitry Medvedev and the “reset” policy being pursued by his US counterpart Barack Obama offered genuine hope of lasting reform. After the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov on Friday, it’s hard to conclude anything other than I was wrong — and abjectly so. In the intervening years there …read more
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