Timothy Frye on ‘Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia’
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Do You Think Russia Is a Bad Place to Study?
There is a kind of up and coming generation of russian scholars, but there's not the depth that there used to be. That pool is much smaller than it used to be in part because of the greater restrictions and just the greater difficulty of trying to study in russia. Even as academics, phd, are finding it to be one of the most interesting places to do academic research,. But it doesn't bode well for the future, certainly. I think it's already having a negative impact. We know you need a long pipe line to train a r Russian experts. It takes a long time to learn the language, to learn the history, the culture. And that will make
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