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Vladimir Putin really did seem to appear on Earth - or at least in the corridors of power in Russia - fully formed. At each step in his career, he was promoted for no particular reason, or because he seemed so devoid of personality that nobody could imagine him causing trouble. This culminated in his 2000 appointment as Yeltsin’s successor when “The world’s largest landmass, a land of oil, gas, and nuclear arms, had a new leader, and its business and political elites had no idea who he was.”
Dictator Book Club: Putin
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While news articles could on some occasions be a means to impact and empower news readers, they needed to work more consistently __as a means of advancing these extrajournalistic agendas.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
“us-east-1” (N. Virginia) is generally thought to be the biggest region, by a huge margin. There have been estimates that 30% of all Internet traffic flows through it.
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Tim Bray
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