Popular/Populist : Is Putin Popular?

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Popular/Populist : Is Putin Popular?

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Jul 9, 2020

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Yana Govokhovskaia joins for the first part of a two part series where we tackle a key question: is Putin popular? And what does popularity even mean in the Russian political context?

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Jul 9, 2020

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