Anne Applebaum is one of the world’s foremost experts on Russia. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her book Gulag: A History. She is a columnist for The Washington Post and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Financial Times of London. Married to the foreign affairs minister of Poland, she divides her time between Warsaw and Washington D.C.

"...communist ideology is definitely gone. Nobody pays lip service to it anymore. Nobody takes it seriously. It's not part of the debate at all. But it has the system, the institutions remain, and they have transmogrified themselves into something new and rather interesting, which unoriginally I'm going to call Putinism."
- February, 2007








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