Soviet Russia
May 24 2008, Edward Lucas

A conspiracy theorist would think that Vladimir Putin was trying to help sales of my book. The thesis that we are entering a new and sinister era in our relations with Russia seemed a bit outlandish when I started writing “The New Cold War” (as the...

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