Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this jihad. On the other hand, Trump himself has repeatedly made clear his admiration for Putin and expressed his willingness to accommodate Russian ambitions in the Middle East, the Ukraine and elsewhere; indeed, to such an extent that he has been described […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Russian population and the position of Russian minorities in the former Soviet republics. Thus, in part, the recent events in Ukraine and various comments recently attributed to Putin about the Russian military capacity to invade neighbouring states if necessary to protect those minorities.2 What he does not discuss is striking: there is almost nothing […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] golf course owner and TV celebrity. And much of his income over many years came from money laundering courtesy of the Russian mafia. His affinity for Vladimir Putin certainly seems to derive at least in part from this last factor. He was certainly not one of the US super rich. Short term advantage with […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] big investigations by Reuters into aspects of Russia’s economy4 7 and the second is a long review of a new 46 47 book on the rise of Putin and his associates.4 8 The two articles are complimentary in many ways. Both show, for example, that the current Russian kleptocracy has been created with and […]