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Rehabilitating a Russian plutocrat with the help of a federally funded U.S. institution.
It takes no less of an author than Peter Pomerantsev to write an extremely insightful book like
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible that reveals the surreal heart of Putin’s Russia. It is much harder to say what kind of author it would take to write a book on the surrealism penetrating America and the West as a whole, but Pomerantsev’s title would be a good fit if we could re-use it.
At a moment when Russia is under a richly deserved sanctions regime, when some call the present state of affairs a New Cold War, and when Putin’s ambitions are called the most dangerous threat to America by several high-ranking Pentagon and U.S. military officials, it doesn’t seem like the most propitious moment for an awards dinner for one of Putin’s “cronies” much less one held in Washi
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