About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin

By Audacy Studios | Puck

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Rebecca
 Nov 29, 2023
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Description

The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. The word means courtyard in Russian, but to a Russian speaker, it is evocative of a whole universe. It was the space where Putin, like so many Soviet kids of his generation, grew up and learned an unforgiving, often brutal social code. Puck journalist Julia Ioffe introduces Westerners to that universe and explains why it’s critical to understanding the Russian president and what he might do next in the war against Ukraine. 

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Chapter 5: All the World’s a Dvor
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 Oct 25, 2023
Chapter 4: The Big Brother
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 Oct 18, 2023
Chapter 3: The Punk
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 Oct 11, 2023
Chapter 2: The Rat
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 Oct 04, 2023
Chapter 1: The Ghosts
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 Oct 04, 2023
About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
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 Oct 02, 2023