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Iskander Yasaveev

Iskander Yasaveev is a doctor of sociology and senior researcher at the Center for Youth Studies at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg

Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012 became a personal victory; and his time out of the saddle a lesson about the dangers of handing over power
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Vladimir Putin bears responsibility for the HIV epidemic facing Russia

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