
Russia Was My Obscure Interest. Now Everyone Is Paying Attention.
Russia has been in the news a lot lately. You may have noticed. It invaded Ukraine, doped the Russian Olympic team, meddled in the American elections and apparently released a deadly nerve agent in the English countryside. On top of all that, it seems to have cast a spell on our otherwise supercilious president, Donald Trump, causing him to throw caution to the wind and set up a one-on-one meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, this month.
For someone like me, who has been writing and thinking about Russia for most of my life, the past few years have made for a strange experience.… Seguir leyendo »