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Evan Gershkovich's is a shocking example of the way that these days the Kremlin doesn't even feel the need to have the most basic pretext to use hostage-taking as a tool of statecraft. Although… 1/
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…on reflection, it's not so much the act of a state as a bandit gang. I've just submitted to the publishers the manuscript of a book which is, essentially, a history of the world told through the medium of organised crime. A key theme is how efficient bandit gangs can… 2/
…become the bases for states. What's deeply worrying and depressing is how quickly and eagerly Russia which, for all the cheap characterisations as a 'Mafia State' was actually something rather more complex, is being dragged into semi-medievalism by Putin and his thugs 4/
