Fantastic reporting, great insights
RT @HenryJFoy: “He has three advisers,” Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said of president Vladimir Putin. “Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. And Catherine the Great.”

A phenomenal piece of reporting by @maxseddon @ChristopherJM @felschwartz
https://www.ft.com/content/80002564-33e8-48fb-b734-44810afb7a49

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