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About the Authors
Lilia Shevtsova
Lilia Shevtsova is the author of Interregnum: Russia Between Past and Future (2014) and Putin’s Russia (2010).
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Scott A. Bruckner
Scott A. Bruckner is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. A version of this essay will appear in the Carnegie Endowment’s forthcoming volume Russia After the Soviet Collapse.