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The Dark Past of Putin’s Media Chief
Bad Ideas
Mikhail Lesin, the Putin aide just found dead in a hotel in Washington, D.C., was the first to propose Russian state control of the Internet.
Andrei Soldatov
Irina Borogan
Published
Nov. 8 2015
12:01AM EST
Alexander Natruskin/Reuters
Andrei Soldatov
Irina Borogan
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