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How Russia’s cartoon heroine turned on Vladimir Putin

Natalia Poklonskaya as Crimean attorney general in 2014 (Illustration: Itachi Kanade)
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Mark Galeotti
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Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti heads the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and is honorary professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the author of some 30 books on Russia. His latest, Forged in War: a military history of Russia from its beginnings to today, is out now.

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