Peter Pomerantsev: ‘Putin’s Russia needs a new genre for each chapter’
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech at an expanded session of the Defence Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Centre in Moscow on Dec. 11.
How can one writer capture the experience of 21st century Russia? I realised that for this book I needed to find a way of writing that could describe a new form of authoritarianism that felt like a dictatorship in the morning, a democracy by lunch, a monarchy at supper time and anarchy at night.
