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Vadim Nikitin

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Vadim Nikitin writes about Russian nostalgia, foreign policy and society. His diatribes have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, The Nation and Dissent magazine

Pro-Kremlin activists march during a rally in support of ethnic Russians in Ukraine in central Moscow, March 2, 2014.
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Putin is exploiting the legacy of the Soviet Union to further Russia's

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