Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
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What Makes Mister Puttin Change?
A spin dictator needs to remain popular. And mister puttin has been doing that, initially based on his economic performance. Then as his economy was destroyed by corruption, by the domination of his friends, by by the demination of the state, he was losing popularity. When he did annexation of crimea in two thousand 14 his larity shot through the roof. So it was not my misjudgment. It's putin's change.
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