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Putin’s Propaganda Isn’t What Russians Are Used To

Doing terrible things in the open is propaganda, too.
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In the I published on Tuesday (and sent to Galaxy Brain readers), I spoke to a lot of people about the need for nuance in discussing “the information war.” One person I quoted but didn’t end up speaking with was Peter Pomerantsev, a senior fellow at John Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute and

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