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Russia and the global order

Russia and the global order

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Lots of Russia news, about Russia's position vis-a-vis the US and the global order; that is increasingly going to be what we're going to be talking about going forward. This American journalist for the Wall Street Journal arrested on charges of espionage, Evan Gershkovich - it's going to be a secret trial. The Russians said that they caught him red-handed. There is no presumption of innocence when you're grabbed on espionage in Russia.

An inside look into how Russians see Putin’s war

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An inside look into how Russians see Putin’s war

Given Putin’s crackdown on free press inside Russia, and the steady stream of propaganda coming out of his state-controlled media outlets, it can be hard to gauge how Russians themselves are viewing this war. According to Moscow-based sociologist Greg Yudin, many Russians still adhere to the official narrative that there is no war happening in Ukraine. But cracks, he says, are beginning to show.