Dawisha, Barrett, and Politkovskaya, the reporters who knew and were brave

It is imperative their names and their work live on

di Heidi Siegmund Cuda

Stealing from the very beginning. I first came across the work of Karen Dawisha while watching the 2015 Frontline PBS documentary, Putin’s Way. It offered so many important links into what would become the TrumpRussia investigation. I consider the film to be one of the bibles to understanding the fight we are in against Putin’s aspirations for global imperialism.

It was Dawisha’s insights that proved to be most vital. Early in the documentary, the Russia scholar and author of 2014’s Putin’s Kleptocracy said: «Instead of seeing Russia as a democracy in the process of failing, we need to see it as an authoritarian system in the process of succeeding..if that’s correct, when did that start? And that’s what took me to the ‘90s - they were stealing from the very beginning».

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