Friday, 12 February 2016

Putin, the Pope, and the Patriarch (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s years as a KGB officer taught him how to take advantage of others. In Steven Lee Myers’ excellent new biography, The New Tsar, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief describes how, when Putin was posted in East Germany in the waning years of communism, he used his opponent’s weaknesses to advance the Soviet cause.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pope-francis-patriarch-kirill-cuba-meeting-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-02

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