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Russia is Unrecognizable One Year After Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

Many Russians would rather forget about the war and go back to a simpler time. Unfortunately, the country has undergone a moral collapse.

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Luke Johnson
Feb 24, 2023
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Protesters lay flowers on a memorial for political prisoners in Moscow during an anti-Putin protest in December 2012. (Photo by the author.)

In the 1978 essay "Power of the Powerless," Czech dissident…

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