Analysis: Faint cracks emerge in the facade of Putin's rule, one year after Ukraine invasion


Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is fond of a phrase, the wonderful Russia of the future, his shorthand for a country without President Vladimir Putin.
But in the year that has passed since…


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