MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Why are we so utterly perplexed by Vladimir Putin?
By EmmaZahn on Sun, 03/16/2014 - 11:02pm |
From the moment he became president of Russia in a surprise handover from the ailing Boris Yeltsin on New Year’s Eve at the turn of the new millennium, Putin has by turns confused, infuriated, outwitted and just plain befuddled the West. And never more so than in recent days, as Russia has invaded neighboring Ukraine and taken over the Crimean peninsula in the prelude to what could be a full-scale annexation of the territory on the Black Sea, the first time such a maneuver has been pulled in Europe since the blood-soaked end of World War
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