Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Peter Pomerantsev: Inside Putin’s information war
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on Dec. 18, 2014.
There were more than 20 of us sitting around the long conference table: tanned broadcasters in white silk shirts, politics professors with sweaty beards and heavy breath, ad execs in trainers -- and me. There were no women. Everyone was smoking. There was so much smoke it made my skin itch.
