[Putin] doesn't back down. - Karen Dawisha

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[Putin] doesn't back down.

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About Karen Dawisha

(December 2, 1949 – April 11, 2018) the daughter of a school teacher and a jazz musician, was an American political scientist and writer. She was a professor in the Department of Political Science at in , and the director of .

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