The Daily Vertical: Putin's Hybrid Repression

As early as 2002, Vladimir Putin was decrying Stalinist repression – with such touching ceremonies as this one at the Norillag gulag camp. However, in 2017 he conveniently ignores – and obviously supports – more sophisticated and corrosive repression that goes on every day.

Brian Whitmore has some thoughts on the subject in today’s Daily Vertical podcast at the link below:

https://www.rferl.org/a/daily-vertical ... -repression/28826298.html