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The Last Pioneer

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Analysis by Mikhail Zygar, Russian journalist, historian, and "criminal" (if you ask the Kremlin)

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About Mikhail Zygar

Journalist and writer from Russia, now arrested by Putin's court (in absentia). Author of 'All the Kremlin's Men' and 'War and Punishment'. Columnist for Der Spiegel and The New York Times. Visiting Professor in Columbia

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