EI Weekly Listen — Sergey Radchenko on what drives Vladimir Putin

January 24, 2025

Putin’s justifications for invading Ukraine uncannily reflect the motivations of one of Russian literature’s most famous antiheroes, Dostoevsky's Rodion Raskolnikov. Read by Helen Lloyd.

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