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If you live in the us in the era of the trump regime this is a painful book to read even though the us is seldom mentioned and trump not once

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Written in 2014 the book details the british authors more than 10 years spent as a documentary filmmaker working for russian tv networks

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Although raised in the uk pomerantsev is a child of russian dissident parents who fled the country while it was still under communist rule

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While still commonplace notions in most of the west they are anything but in putins russia

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While much more entertaining than they used to be under soviet rule the core function of russian media has not changed

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Pomerantsev by his account didnt want to do empty reality tv

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The opposition parties are created by the government to maintain the fiction of democracy and the independent media are all part of the same web of oligarchical ownership as the rest of the economy

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Putin was a kgb bureaucrat who somehow emerged out of the turbulence of the late 1990s after the soviet union had collapsed overnight in 1991 and the country had quickly turned into a freeforall of scrambling for the spoils of the new crony capitalist state