Arkady Ostrovsky on Russias Wild Wild Far East
Putin\u2019s government is often painted as an all powerful,\xa0centralized regime. But, in reality, it\u2019s far from that: in Russia\u2019s Far East, Moscow is either resented or disregarded by many, and the security services are the only agents fully loyal to Moscow. This week, special guest host Alina Polyakova interviewed Arkady Ostrovsky, the author of \u201cThe Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News\u201d and the Russia and Eastern Europe editor at the Economist, on life Russia\u2019s wild Far East, the tensions between the Kremlin and its far flung provinces, and what it all means for the limits of Putin\u2019s power and his deepest fears.\xa0
This is the second podcast in a new series with Alina Polyakova to shed light on Russian politics and society in an effort to understand the Kremlin\u2019s intentions toward and engagement with the West.
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