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Putin’s North Koreanisation of Russia is turning a country that once gave the world some of its most renowned authors, composers, musicians and scientists into a nation more adept at making potato chips than microchips, more famous for its poisoned underwear than its haute couture, and more focused on unlocking its underground reservoirs of gas and oil than on its above-ground reservoirs of human genius and creativity. The whole world is diminished by Putin’s diminishing of Russia. But with last week’s annexation, it’s hard to see any other outcome as long as Putin is in power. Why? Game theorist Thomas...
