Anne Applebaum says that dissidents against the authoritarian regime, many of them in London, are raising the stakes. The President’s response is to get even tougher — and to target Britain in his new propaganda war
About two years ago, Mikhail Kasyanov, ex-prime minister of Russia, made a private visit to Washington.

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