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Strikes me as a very even-handed account of Putln’s life and career. Far more empathetic than most western writing about him, but certainly doesn’t shy away from the very unflattering stuff. Some accounts of mid-90s and early-aughts oligarch intrigue were a little hard to follow. Short editorializes quite a bit throughout, and while his opinions are usually thoughtful they do occasionally strike me as too tidy or axiomatic. Certainly a book to skip if you fear becoming a Putinversteher but I’m not sure what there is to fear from verstehen?