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Think Putin’s Bad? Wait for the Next Guy

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Russians know they could do worse than Putin as president, and the West should keep in mind just how bad a successor might be.

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MOSCOW—Vadim Gronskiy is an engineer who’s making money on the side as a taxi driver, and as we were driving down Pokrovka Street listening to the news on the radio, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

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